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2011-02-28
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The place was filled up when we arrived on a Sunday for a late-ish lunch. The table outside was reserved but the owner kindly cleared up a table for us as soon as the previous guests left. And he was very polite and courteous. His name's RJ, and he said the restaurant was named after his son AJ, chuckling as he pointed at a photo on the wall with him, a Chinese lady (his wife) and a 3 year old kid in it. Ah, the toils of fatherhood.The ice cold beer was served in a chilled mug, which was refresh
The ice cold beer was served in a chilled mug, which was refreshing on a surprisingly hot February day, and only cost $20. It went well with the thin crispy poppadom with chutney. The place was very nicely decorated with ornaments from Sri Lanka and lots of pictures of the wild life, elephants in the conservation zoo etc. The shop opposite was drilling like mad, and RJ quickly closed the door to shut out the sound. Good man, very attentive.
We ordered the appetizer platter which had the fish roti with the purple potato filling, dhal verde, samosa, spring roll and fish cutlet. The fish roti was fantastic and a completely new thing to me, the others were a little dry (reheated I suspect) but overall tasted fine. Then we had the String Hopper Rothu, a cashew biryani rice (we ordered just steamed rice but he was a little creative, but it was a good choice), and the eggplant moju, which had an interesting flavour - not exactly sweet, but kinda tangy with a bit of spice to it, very nice with the rice, but just a tad oily. The hopper rothu was packed densely into a bowl before being served, and the individual noodles were not quite visibly, so you end up eating more like a dense paste of carb mixed with chicken, egg and other goodies. It was a good dish on its own, or alternatively would have gone well with dhal or curry.
We would love to try the lamprais next time.
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