yamraj17

Hey Vikram, thanks to your directions, I got to Anantashram without any problems. In fact, I had lunch twice at AA. The fish was good and the setting even better - I liked the the tables and the slow fan. There is a large board saying' "3rd class Eating House", but was much cleaner than many 2nd class eateries in Bombay. I then went to Gomantak Boarding House at Dadar for a meal. Here, the food did remind me of Goa, but only just. The others on the list you put up in your previous post, I shall visit soon. Thank you.

My mother always makes all meat, red or white, with the bone-in. Also, never have I come across any Malyali restaurant in Kerala or anywhere else serving boneless dishes. And till now, I had never given it any thought. You may find fewer bones in a beef dish, but that is as far as it goes. Kheema or Kaima dishes are, of course not to be counted. The tastiest chicken dishes are made with country fowl, or nadan kozhi as they are called in Malayalam. You'll find them to be a lot bonier than a city broiler. But what you lose in flesh, you gain in taste. After the chicken curry is ready, a couple of teaspoons of coconut oil is what you need to make the yummiest chicken dish ever.

My mom swears by these earthen pots whose inside bottom is speckled with tiny stones/pebbles to cook fish curry. Says though clay takes longer to heat up, it stays hot for longer. Thats easy physics. But what is not easy to understand is how a different cooking utensil can lead to such a dramatic change in taste when all other variables at left alone. Boy! that is one mean fish curry she cooks. The pots are from Tamil Nadu.

Having lived here for 6 years, my claim to eating the "real" Bombay food is pigging out on Bhunaa and Nalli-Nyari at Madanpura and the occasional Seek-Kabab near JJ. Colaba is where I live and have never gone hunting for some place 'coz I've heard that you get something different there. Thank you, Vikram. I'll give you a review, probably by the weekend.

Hello I was just browsing the threads when I chanced upon this one. I live in Bombay and visited Goa sometime last year, fell in love with the food I got at this small, nondescript bar on the way to Candolim beach and have been suffering from withdrawal symptom ever since(I ate there twice a day for the 5 days that I was in Goa, that was a lotta hardwork considering I was staying in Miramaar). I guess what I ate was Malvani food. There is nothing like a plate of Fried Mussels with a large Ol' Monk-on the-rocks.....getting back to the point, can you gimme good directions to these eateries- - Malvani · Anantashram · Saayba (Bandra) · Gajalee (Vile Parle East) · Sindhudurg (Dadar) I intend to drive there and hate to ask people for directions and not get anywhere.