Friday, May 31, 2013

Shami Banana Leaf Delights, Sembawang Road

Shami Banana Leaf Delights, lassi

Shami (349 Sembawang Road, tel : +65 6754 3898) is a local Indian eatery of a small fame up in the northern parts of this country that makes a mean fiery red chicken masala with a spicy nutty paste. They used to be just a stall in the food court at Northpoint with a history for long queues. The food in recent times has become somewhat inconsistent. The same might be said for their queues. Not too long back, they set up shop along Sembawang somewhere across the road from Khatib Camp.

The quality of the food I was told, is better here these days compared to the stall in the food court. It's something that I cannot deny or confirm. If this is an up in quality, does that mean that the one from the food court stall has truly fallen?

Shami Banana Leaf Delights, fish cutlet
fish cutlet 

These balls of minced fish and potato were pretty tasty. As much as I'm avoiding comparison here, Samy's uglier looking ones were much better than these.

Shami Banana Leaf Delights, butter chicken
butter chicken 

No complains about the butter chicken, but this will like never beat Jaggi's.

Shami Banana Leaf Delights, cabbage
Chennai cabbage?

Shami Banana Leaf Delights, beans
 lentils and beans

Shami Banana Leaf Delights, briyani
 briyani

Orders of rice came with two choices of vegetables. The rice didn't seem to be as good as I remember them. Those vegetables were apparently nothing much to write home about neither.

Shami Banana Leaf Delights, mutton masala
mutton masala 

Shami Banana Leaf Delights, kashmiri and cheese naan
Kashmiri and cheese naan 

Naans were rather small serving and lacked fluffiness. Felt somewhat run of the mill. I suppose that's how they do these here.

Shami Banana Leaf Delights, fried fish roe
 deep fried fish roe

We loved those freshly fried fish roe. So much that after dinner, we did a portion for take away as after dinner snacks! Sadly, these seem to come by uncommonly these days.

Shami Banana Leaf Delights, gobi manchurian
gobi manchurian

These stir fried cauliflowers were not the most memorable.

Shami Banana Leaf Delights, masala tea
the washdown

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