[Sunnyvale] Less Spicy South Indian recs?

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Welcome! Glad to have you around- I am a big fan of South Indian around Sunnyvale as well and I am also a medium spicy sort of person .

Have you tried Annachikadai in Mountain View, just north of Grant? The flavors are a bit more laid back, I feel, compared to Aachi Appakadai.

[Mountain View, CA] AnnachiKadai, Tamil Nadu eats

AnnachiKadai is a newish thali place serving Tamil Nadu specialties on El Camino near Grant/ 237. They serve the thalis on a banana leaf. The server said that sometimes this is done back home during ceremonial occasions and its an honor to be served food on a banana leaf. The banana leaf is supposed to give out an aroma to the hot food like rice and add good antioxidants for the skin. I ordered the Ilai Virunthu- non vegetarian thali, which came with 3 meat curries. There was the fried tila…

The pesarattu from Amaravathi in Sunnyvale isn’t particularly spicy.

[Sunnyvale] MLA pesarattu from Amaravathi Indian Pure Vegetarian Restaurant

Amaravathi Indian Pure Vegetarian Restaurant replaced Taste Buds a couple of years ago. Its focus is Southern Indian dishes from around Andhra Pradesh. I grabbed a MLA pesarattu or my dinner. I wasn’t familiar with pesarattus- its a variation of dosas, made from green gram lentil and rice, soaked and ground into batter then fried. I also thought its interesting that nowadays with the Indian population growing in the Silicon Valley, we are getting more and more dishes previously only found in…

I haven’t typed it up but I don’t recall the thali at Ugadi as particularly spicy. Though it tasted ok.

Which other ones have you tried besides Aachi and Anjappar? Those two I think have bolder flavors, in general.