<\/a>Cheese sambusek, meat manakish, chicken shish, roasted lamb sausage, mint tzatziki, grilled chuck eye beef, baked salmon, spiced curry sauce, green beans in tomato sauce, vegetable kabssah.<\/p><\/div>\n
While it was easy enough to work out the rationale behind an assortment as diverse as this – later confirmed by Chef Sharma in his interview – we never anticipated it being presented in an Indian thali of all things. This truly was a celebration of cuisines from across the globe; but was it a coherent munch? Well, let’s just say it was intriguing enough, with a mixture of the good and not so good.<\/p>\n
The good was definitely the duos-on-a-stick, with the roasted lamb sausage being soft, tender, herby and quite wholesome, and its chicken counterpart being crunchy on the outside and fairly moist on the in.<\/p>\n
And though the crispy-skinned salmon was slightly over, it also didn’t help that the grilled chuck eye beef was served luke warm, resulting in an overly chewy mass which kept us masticating for far longer than our fatiguing jaws could take.<\/p>\n
Despite the meat manakish’s fried minced topping being decent enough, we found the pastry base to be on the thick side.<\/p>\n
As for the cheese sambusek, then this was well made with the pastry being crumbly in texture. The large pear drop-shaped samosa though was a dense affair, with the entire thing erring on the dry side, and thus being quite unremarkable.<\/p>\n
Otherwise, we enjoyed combining the fragant vegetable kabssah rice bowl with both the mildly spicy curry sauce and the crunchy green beans tossed in masala-oriented tomato sauce. Be sure to add a dollop of the mint tzatziki sauce to help counter the gentle heat therein, while mixing things up with the pickled vegetables.<\/p>\n
Peculiarly, however, the thali also came with a bowl of mayonnaise, which just seemed out of place.<\/p>\n
All in all, a pick ‘n’ mix thali that will have you curiously scratching your head right the way through this culinary journey.<\/p>\n[vc_empty_space]\n