Seafood unlimited
Sea fresh Wide range of spicy seafood is available at Mubarak Hotel, Chalai
COOKED IN THE TRADITIONAL WAY!!!
My cholesterol levels are rocket high, but here was I, on my way to devour a plate full of the most delectable seafood delicacies.
After having conned the wife that I would be having the vegetarian fare at a canteen, I rushed to Hotel Mubarak, situated in the narrow bylanes of Chalai. With visions of Sreevidya singing ‘Ayala varatha undu, Karimeen porichatha undu’ swimming in my eyes, I sped my way to Mubarak.
Hotel Mubarak is a unpretentious little joint but definitely neat and clean. It serves seafood of all kinds – cuttle fish, sear fish, prawns, squid, pomfret et al.
Don’t be too touchy about the company you have for there are no exclusive tables in this joint. In fact, patrons are hovering around you, salivating at the fish you are eating, awaiting their turn.
After 15 minutes of drooling over somebody else’s meal, I finally got a seat, or more precisely a stool to sit on. A plantain leaf was put in front of me with no great flourish. Fish curry is on the house, but freeloading patrons who don’t buy an accompanying fried fish dish have to pay an extra Rs. 5 for their meal.
My table companions have only their food on their mind, no time or need for pointless conversation. All of us are united in only one thing – our greed for fried fish. There was a tough-looking fellow who perhaps did not like my paunch or my look.
I ordered a plate of seer fish and prawns fry along with my meal.
Toughie had ordered just an Ayala fry. He finished his fried fish and looked around and eyed my seer fish. Suddenly my fish was feeling insecure.
I drew my side dishes closer to my plantain leaf. Toughie gave a sly smile and waited for the waiter to refill the communal fish curry dish.
As soon as the waiter had unloaded piping hot curry with pieces of ‘para’ fish floating in it into the dish, he made a deep scoop with the ladle and fished out all the pieces and heaped it on to his plantain leaf.
The four pieces of sear fish were tender and white, fried in coconut oil to crisp firmness. The prawns were eight of them, some the size of my little finger.
I bit over one of them and closed my eyes and succumbed to such a heavenly pleasure. Who cared for the meal, everyone was devouring fish, fish and fish.
At the end of it, it had cost me only Rs. 110!
WOW FOODIE...What are u waiting for....RUN!!!!!
Sea fresh Wide range of spicy seafood is available at Mubarak Hotel, Chalai
An article by Mr Rajeev!!...yummy!!!
After having conned the wife that I would be having the vegetarian fare at a canteen, I rushed to Hotel Mubarak, situated in the narrow bylanes of Chalai. With visions of Sreevidya singing ‘Ayala varatha undu, Karimeen porichatha undu’ swimming in my eyes, I sped my way to Mubarak.
Hotel Mubarak is a unpretentious little joint but definitely neat and clean. It serves seafood of all kinds – cuttle fish, sear fish, prawns, squid, pomfret et al.
Don’t be too touchy about the company you have for there are no exclusive tables in this joint. In fact, patrons are hovering around you, salivating at the fish you are eating, awaiting their turn.
After 15 minutes of drooling over somebody else’s meal, I finally got a seat, or more precisely a stool to sit on. A plantain leaf was put in front of me with no great flourish. Fish curry is on the house, but freeloading patrons who don’t buy an accompanying fried fish dish have to pay an extra Rs. 5 for their meal.
My table companions have only their food on their mind, no time or need for pointless conversation. All of us are united in only one thing – our greed for fried fish. There was a tough-looking fellow who perhaps did not like my paunch or my look.
I ordered a plate of seer fish and prawns fry along with my meal.
Toughie had ordered just an Ayala fry. He finished his fried fish and looked around and eyed my seer fish. Suddenly my fish was feeling insecure.
I drew my side dishes closer to my plantain leaf. Toughie gave a sly smile and waited for the waiter to refill the communal fish curry dish.
As soon as the waiter had unloaded piping hot curry with pieces of ‘para’ fish floating in it into the dish, he made a deep scoop with the ladle and fished out all the pieces and heaped it on to his plantain leaf.
The four pieces of sear fish were tender and white, fried in coconut oil to crisp firmness. The prawns were eight of them, some the size of my little finger.
I bit over one of them and closed my eyes and succumbed to such a heavenly pleasure. Who cared for the meal, everyone was devouring fish, fish and fish.
At the end of it, it had cost me only Rs. 110!
WOW FOODIE...What are u waiting for....RUN!!!!!
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