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2013-09-01
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The Indian cuisine is one of the few fascinating ones where they use a lot of nuts, roots and leaves in there cooking. If you go to an authentic Indian restaurant, a common serving on most tables would be thebanana leaf rice. It is basically just white rice, with some dishes, normally 3-4 vegetable dishes, and lots of curry gravy drenched all over the rice, served on the banana leaf instead of a plate.The best thing about the banana leaf rice is that it is a free flow. So it is all you can eat,
The Indian cuisine is one of the few fascinating ones where they use a lot of nuts, roots and leaves in there cooking. If you go to an authentic Indian restaurant, a common serving on most tables would be thebanana leaf rice. It is basically just white rice, with some dishes, normally 3-4 vegetable dishes, and lots of curry gravy drenched all over the rice, served on the banana leaf instead of a plate.
The best thing about the banana leaf rice is that it is a free flow. So it is all you can eat, and the waiters’ kind of just refill with no questions asked.
Upon seated, and ordered, I was served the banana leaf with white rice. More like a mountain of white rice.
Then I waited fairly long for the vegetables, and the curry. One awful thing here is the extremely slow and inattentive service from all the staffs. And trust me; the amount of man power is like a one worker to two tables’ ratio headcount. So I really don’t get what took them so long to bring the vegetables and curry.
So when it was finally here, they serve 4 vegetables and I like 4 of it. What the Indians do is, the rice is drenched with an array of curry; dahl, fish or chicken curry. I extremely love the dahl curry as there was lots of white radish in it and it was really delicious. On top of that, they also serve this side gravy which is also a perfect combination to the banana leaf rice. One is really brine, and one is very rice in coconut milk. Hence these two were not served as “flooding” amount.
Then there is the papadam, which is a thin, crisp Indian preparation sometimes described as a cracker.Also, the Rasam which is a South Indian soup traditional prepared with tamarind juice as base in addition to tomato, chili pepper, Pepper, Cumin and other spices as seasonings.
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