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(From left) KFC and CFC meal; Kerala tamarind boiled fish meal
Hissing and clanging, thattukadas or food carts that park themselves during city junctions opposite Kerala, conclude a state’s travel food culture. Spicy beef fry, flaky parottas, soothing dosas, golden pazhamporis and unconstrained varieties of boiled transport are dished out during record speed, and devoured in a blink of an eye. In a connection far, distant divided from God’s Own Country, a discord of a thattukada assumes a poshed-up avatar. We’re during Bandra’s SV Road, where Nair On Fryer, a newly non-stop kerbside shop, promises to move street-style Keralite treats to a neighbourhood.
If a Nairs sound familiar, it’s since they’re a same two-and-a-honorary-half Mallus — Vinod G Nair, Sara Jacob Nair and Toral Sanghavi — who’ve lovingly been feeding Mumbaikars home-style Keralite delicacies underneath a code Nair On Fire.
Kerala chilli duck toastie
The quirky green-and-white façade welcomes us on a Wednesday afternoon; we’re offering a span of cosmetic stools to lay out. This author and her Mallu friend’s dreams of gorging on a quintessential image of buff-parotta, however, are cracked when we demeanour during a menu that has no snippet of a red meat. Our crony also points out that other common delicacies like pazhampori, kadan motta and appams are missing. We after learn from Vinod — whose clean olarthu we’ve mostly relished — that apportionment adult a quarrelsome beef in a open can pull a madness of trouble-makers; they’re too new to dauntless that. But once they make their mark, clean and parotta will be in a offing, he assures us. The menu, too, will keep changing to supplement new treats each few months.
The eatery boasts of opposite kinds of boiled duck — Kerala-style, crispy, chilli and peppers — along with fish, prawn and aloo. Also on offer are toasties, dal vada, medu vada and duck dosas — all during pocket-friendly prices. The fare, Vinod tells us, is flavoured by a influences of North India, Dubai and a Middle East, interjection to a sell of migrants.
Kulukki
Since we’re penetrating to try dual kinds of duck fry, a attendant during a store prepares a mash-up mini dish of Kerala Fried Chicken (KFC) and Crispy Fried Chicken (CFC), both imports from a streets of Dubai and Oman. One can also opt for only a duck that comes in opposite apportionment sizes. The duck mini dish (Rs 245) comprises 4 corpulent pieces, dual chapatis, dal, immature chutney and salad. The KFC, enrobed in a heady mix of spices, curry leaves and chillies in coconut oil, is hot, tantalising and passes a internal Mallu’s ambience test. The CFC, nonetheless super crispy and proposal inside, pales beside a flavour-bomb cousin. The modest dal grill in a thali intrigues us, deliberation it’s not a standard Keralite condiment. We counsel if it’s served for a Bambaiyya taste that cozies towards rassa with a fish grill and chapati. The cook confirms a guess later.
Like a duck counterpart, a Kerala tamarind boiled fish (Rs 295) mini meal, too, is stuffing and wholesome. We wish a fish wasn’t basa, though a honeyed and spicy tamarind salsa creates adult for it. We rinse these down with a potion of a refreshing, spicy tender mango kulukki sherbet (Rs 60), that’s ideal for this humid weather.
The Kerala chilli duck toastie (Rs 140) that we container for after creates for a frail dusk snack. The stuffing is a pleasant Keralite take on Chinese chilli duck that you’re doubtful to find opposite kiosk menus. Order it for your chai-coffee breaks or for midnight cravings. Like a true-blue thattukada, this desirous joint, too, is hissing and clanging compartment a diminutive hours. “Or expostulate in, park your automobile and we’ll offer we inside,” Vinod urges us. There’s an idea.
Nair On Fryer
At: Ground floor, Grace Residence (same building as Hotel Grace Galaxy), Junction of 30th Road, SV Road, Bandra West.
Time: 12.30 pm to 3 pm and 6.30 pm to 11.30 pm (Tuesday to Thursday); 12.30 pm to 3 pm and 6.30 pm to 1.30 am (Friday to Sunday)
Call: 9082069393
Log on to: @naironfryer on Instagram or thrivenow.in
**** Exceptional, ***Excellent, **very Good, *Good, Average.
Nair On Fryer didn’t know we were there. The Guide reviews anonymously and pays for meals
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