Shish Mahal, Albert Court

Apart from the ill fated attempt at located Gorkha Grill some months back (does it even exist anymore anyone?), Shish Mahal (180 Albert Street, #01-20 Albert Court, tel: 6837 3480) is the second foray into a place that does Nepalese food. Well, to be precise, this place does both Indian and Nepalese. I must say that I wasn't too impressed with the chicken momo which was in many ways like chinese steamed dumpings, namely xiao long baos which are in leagues better tasting, juicier and more flavored. I guess the melted fats help on that.

We got an order of the garlic prawns which felt to me was neither Indian nor Nepalese. The prawns, I must comment were quite crunchy and deshelled (yay!). Apart from that, the accompanying starchy sauce was quite unremarkable and the garlic certainly fell short of what I would expect from garlic prawns. I've definitely had much better renditions at Mango Tree.


There is really nothing much to complain about the tandoori chicken (which was quite tender), the boti kebab (some rather chewy lamb heavily marinated in a tandoori paste which left nothing of the meats original flavor) or the chewy cheese naan, but the aftermath of this dinner left really nothing much to be desired for an encouraging return to this place.