Tamil Food

[jeya]

Hi
If you are lover of Tamil food.no banana leaf..because you serve your self.....eat till you drop dead...varities galore, sinfully tatsy with abundance of spice and veges. Their fish pieces are large too
There are two to three styles of dhall.
I like their rasam and moru.
Also heard they serve some exotic sheep organs pretel {intestines}
Location is in a food court along the boundray of SS3 and Kelana Jaya.

[fRaNkY]

There are a few good ones in brickfield. Especially next to vivikananda. Behind the big sign board.

[farouk]

salivating now

[idolfan]

Originally posted by jeya
Location is in a food court along the boundray of SS3 and Kelana Jaya.

Clearer directions please :-)

I'll go just to try out the intestines peretal.

thxs

[jeya]

Hi all

You got to PM me and i can call you...otherwise i just can explain the directions to you here so complicating lah.

Sorry lah.

[jeya]

Ok maybe next time i go i will jolt down the address and pass it on to you guys.

[fRaNkY]

or you can draw a map and attach in this thread.

Draw in powerpoint. Save as JPG.

[KH EE]

what's the difference between tamil and indian food? maybe same thing as in chinese food where there's hokkien, cantonese, etc...?

[jeya]

Tamils here originated from Tamil Nadu in Southern India. Then we also have The Malayalees from Kerala, Telugus and few other ethnic groups. Then you also have Sri Lanka Tamils .

All of us basically use the same ingredients but we have own unique dishes which might vary in taste and appearance.


North indian food is totally different from the Southern Indian food.

The tamils prefer to have their meals in a tamil shop rather than a mamak shop...the mamak food is South Indian food modified to suit the Malays and not real tamil food that the tamils are accustomed too..
I see the mamak food as mere window dressing.


There is alot of difference between a mamak shop and Tamil shop..only by trying the food would you know the difference

The makan shops along Brickfields are run by Tamils or you could call it South Indian Resturants.

Maybe there are others too who can can clarify it better.

Kw Chang are you a fan of Indian food?

[KH EE]

I used to stay in Brickfields in early 80's & always love to eat banana leaf rice... u r right , jeya, the spices used r very tasty... i used to "cincai" washed my hands so that, for the rest of the day, I can smell the aroma...


btw, does lotus rest. @ the old State cinema serves original Tamil food?

[jeya]

Hi KH EE

How come i dont know you lah I spent lots of my time in Brickfields all my years..every Sunday before i go to Church i must have my onoin thosai /Rava thosai and a glass of fresh cows milk tea and do a bit of shopping around Sri Kota.

Which part of Brickfields did you stay ..you must have many Indian friends too?

Lotus is not a thorough bred Tamil Resturant..not like the ones in Brickfields.

Panddi next to Raju , in PJ and a branch in Brickfields is a Tamil shop

[KH EE]

rented a room at a jln berhala flat belonging to a late headmaster of Methodist Boy's School. yes, have a lot of indian friends, not only in Brickfields but in M'cca/KL/Taiping too! sorry going off topic..

didn't appreciate the finer points of tamil food then but will keep a good eye & mouth the next time I partake it...

Will try out ther places that u've posted. Any such places here in SJ/USJ?

[jeya]

Hi
I prefer to eat at shops in the old areas..new shops tend to window dress their food and tend to be pricely...i am not one who cares for the comforts and the decor of a shop..all i want is tasty,spicy and authentic food.

The food in Kelana Jaya is good to my liking and you would love it too.
I will get the address soon

Cheers

[bslee]

Talking about S.Indian food, maybe I'm fussy I just can't put my finger down on any shop in Brickfields as good or excellent. The quality is no more there and not to mention the current prices of each individual dish. Either the bill or the quality of food served would give me a fright!. Even a vegetarian meal is about RM4.50, I think. I'm not a rich man lah!.

Many years ago, I used to be neighbors to an Indian Christian family and I always knew that aunty would serve the most delicious and savory, (of course its home-cooked) dishes for the family's daily meals. All the grinding and processing of the ingredients would be done hand with the assistance of employed maids. Well, they are well to do, and they are now fully retired, a Tan Sri & Puan Sri (i call her Aunty Puan Sri). I hold Aunty Puan Sri's cooking to the highest regard of the best and most natural Indian cooking ever. I can't ever forget the taste. Anyway, both TS & PS are my sister's god parents.

Come to think of it, I just don't see much authenticity in any of shops nowadays..sigh!..tarak oommph!..

Raju's Sect 5,PJ = AFAIK, Horrendously expensive, havent been there ina century! I've once bumped into PM AAB (when he was Foreign minister) just driving off after a meal there.

Sri Pandi Sect 11 PJ = Normal prices, nothing great, the dishes I want are not there.

Sri Pandi Brickfields, = Normal prices, nothing to shout about, worse than the PJ branch!.. Capati is nonsense!, cold curries!..
I've been there when they 1st started in the mid 80's with 5-6 staff (customers were mostly TNB or Telekom staff, mid-income people just wanting a good meal!..at a rented back lot of a shop just a few doors away from the present one!. They're very very prosperous now with branches all over.

Lotus PJ= I heard it's a no, no!.. yep..not been there in ages, the last time I ate there, nothing satisfying and expensive too.

Lotus Sect 52 PJ (Next to HSBC)..so called Nasi Kandar!.. What???? since when?..perhaps they think we're all foold!

Restoran Grand City Sect 11, PJ = Ok ok only lah.. till Sri Pandi opened shop on the other end-lot! I wonder if they're still in business.

Kavita's in PJ.. at the end of Jln Gasing on LHS area. = Certain dishes are good and prices are within reason. The mutton curry is delicious!.. but as usual made with powdered spices.. not very authentic is it?..

I got some more places but too lazy to list them here..
Puasa coming up this week..will visit more places soon..maybe the above just to see how bad or good they are..

Fried chicken too dry, fried fish like wood, curry too thin or tasteless, oily, soft or expired poppadams, no fish cutlets, no rasam or tairoo..or rasam that tastes like dishwater.. hmmmm., all too often my grouses..

[mackzulkifli]

All this talk is making the mamak in me go into cold turkey in overwhelming need for spice, rice and all things considered vice by the prefect who polices my waistline, my wife.

Ah, the plasure of indulgence ...