Ever felt like monkeying around?
We sure feel like it!
We’ve covered a variety of food festivals
before & this time we’re going to talk about meal bowls.
This post is all about our recent
experience at the Monkey Bar, Indiranagar, Bangalore.
We’ve been in the same building many times
before (to Fatty Bao) so no surprise for us. This time we’re going to talk
about the ongoing “One Bowl Winter” festival at the Monkey Bar across all its
outlets in Bangalore, Kolkata, Delhi & Mumbai.
This is an ongoing festival which is on for
about a month & a half more.
The best part about meal bowls is that
everything comes at one shot so you don’t have to worry much about quantity
& sides.
Without further ado, we’ll let you know
which ones we tried & which ones we want to keep on trying!
Must tries: Panch Phoron & Kasundi
Maach, Chicken Xacuti, Korean Bibimpap & the Kashmiri Yakhni.
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| Mutton Yakhni |
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| The Chicken Xacuti |
We also tried the Nagarjuna Inspired Chilli
Chicken & the Sesame Teriyaki Chicken Bowl which are definitely worth a
shot but not as good as the above. The former was a spicy chicken preparation
served with parathas whereas the latter is the usual Grilled Chicken in
Teriyaki sauce.
We later realized that we had missed out on
the seafood bowls, which we were really looking forward to!
First up, if you love fish, you have to try
the Kasundi Maach. The fish used is Surmai (clearly written in the menu). They
use fresh & well layered fish for the prep. The aroma of the Gobindobhog
rice & the zing of the kasundi is always a magical affair. For a Bengali,
this is a must try!
The Xacuti was brilliant. The goan spices
with the tender boneless chicken tasted heavenly. Moreover, the millets tasted
really good & went well with the spicy gravy. We had millets for the first
time so either millets have a distinct aroma or they used Ghee in the
preparation.
Now for the 2 best bowls: The Bibimpap
& the Yakhni.
The latter had succulent chunks of mutton
in yoghurt based gravy. It comes with a serving of saffron rice & the
combined aroma is overwhelming. This is a mildly spicy preparation. The
Bibimpap is a popular Korean preparation with shredded beef. The beef in this
case was simply irresistible. The sauce was lip smacking. This is served with
sticky rice, greens, mushrooms & a fried egg.
Although it doesn’t seem much, the bowls
are pretty heavy on the stomach.
For dessert, we tried some Churros, Nutella
cake with ice cream & a preparation with molten chocolate & caramel
popcorn. This was a full-fledged Choco-indulgence!
The Nutella cake is just amazing. The
sweetness if perfect & of course: Nutella. The popcorn concept was pretty
neat & worked out extremely well.
That’s all from our side!
This special menu is on for quite some time
so don’t miss out. The preparations mentioned are truly mouth-watering. There
are others which we couldn’t try so feel free to try them out & let us know
how you feel.
We’ll be back soon with another foodscapade
;)
Till then—think about your taste buds &
bon apetit!
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