Lunch yesterday at ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ถ ๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ on King Street. The relatively new Penang outpost of a popular KL eatery (the original is located in OUG Parklane, Kuala Lumpur) started operating in early-January this year.
Penangโs Little India is pretty busy this time of the year, as the Deepavali, or Festival of Lights, approaches (it falls on 24 Oct this year). For the Indian diaspora in Penang, as with their brethren around the world, itโs their biggest festival of the year. Pop-up shops selling all kinds of clothing, decoratives and Deepavalli-related paraphernalia add to the burst of colours and noise in the jam-packed Little India district.
Very good service here at Bhai Biryani, but one needs to go early as the restaurant gets pretty busy at peak meal-times, and one may need to wait quite a while for oneโs food.
Our lunch spread today:
๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ง ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ - skewered and grilled pieces of spice-marinated paneer (Indian cheese), capsicum, onion and tomatoes.
๐๐๐ข๐ ๐ฟ๐ช๐ข ๐ฝ๐๐ง๐ฎ๐๐ฃ๐ - mutton chunks, marinated in aromatic spices, ginger, and shallots, then cooked with basmati rice in a sealed, heavy-bottomed โdumโ pot.
๐ฝ๐ค๐ฃ๐๐ก๐๐จ๐จ ๐พ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ฃ ๐ฝ๐๐ง๐ฎ๐๐ฃ๐ - spiced, boneless chicken chunks, cooked atop basmati rice.
Dessert:
๐๐ช๐ก๐๐ ๐
๐๐ข๐ช๐ฃ - spheres of syrup-soaked spongey milk pudding. I have a love-hate relationship with this dessert: I simply cannot stop eating these sinful little orbs where one can almost sense the fizz of oneโs teeth enamel dissolving from the sugar syrup.
๐๐๐จ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐ - one of the best spiced milk tea around: thick, milky-rich, sweet and aromatic.
The food is amazingly chili-spicy, but full of flavour.
Address
Bhai Biryani
119, Lebuh King (King Street), 10200 George Town, Penang, Malaysia
Tel: +6017-788 7243
Operating hours: 11am to 11pm daily