Lovely day for a picnic table of interesting eats, great company, and some tasty bites.
What was different (good) about this was that you could taste that it was home cooking.
I am not a big fan of cold fritters (I mean – they’re supposed to be crisp and they’re deep fried, so by virtue of sitting around, they’re soggy and oily by the time you get them cold), but there’s no good way to get deep frying on the spot in that setting.
I missed the first few dishes, but of the rest, my favorites were the chicken curry and the (second / grandma) noodle salad.
The curry was well balanced, not heavily spiced but very flavorful, and the fried garlic and pickled onions added texture and more flavor.
The noodle salad assembly reminded me of Indian chaat: all the ingredients and sauces were laid out, the lady took some of each, added a few sauces and condiments from jars and bowls in front of her, mixed it with her (gloved) hand till the sauces were fully mingled with everything else, sampled a little, added a little of this and a little of that, plated, and garnished. There were THREE kinds of noodles in this one, and the amalgam was delicious.
Adding a pic of the 3rd noodle salad, which had a saucy chicken and udon-like noodles plus some crunchy puffs. Flavor leaned sour.
I missed the chicken puffs by dilly dallying, and we couldn’t find something that looked like a spicy soup despite scouring the room, but aside from that we did pretty okay!
Pot of chicken curry, Rice with fried garlic and pickled onion
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Noodle salad mixing station
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Chicken noodle salad
