I've been wanting to come to Podi & Poriyal (486 Serangoon Road, tel : +65 9711 2400) for some time. They're a contemporary South Indian vegetarian restaurant. Got their Podi's Signature Lunch which involves what one normally gets in a thali with dishes that get rotated weekly. Why did I mention 'normally'? Because they don't serve it in a thali here. Food from the lunch set was refillable.
Kinda like the upmarket take on Komala Vilas.
A paanagam to sooth the afternoon heat while waiting for the food. It's ginger, lime, jaggery and cardamom. Nice.
Instead of papadum, we get...rice crisp I guess. Flavoured with jeera/cumin.
This was the first part of the lunch set - the appetizers which consisted of a spinach vadai, some really delicious gobi/cauliflower which I cannot be sure is a pakora or a 65. Possibly a 65. On the side were pickled garlic, some powder which I couldn't identify and coconut chutney. Great munching.
The mains were some vegetable dishes that accompanied the starch of either ghee infused rice or millet of your choice. Today's were curried potatoes, snake gourd poriyal and some salad thingy that had starfruit. Actually with the sambar ladled over, it didn't make much of difference if it was the ghee rice or millet.
Cup o rasam accompanied the food. Their's was nice and sour from the tamarind.
Add on order of cabbage poriyal. Not bad tasting with lots of shredded coconut. The odd thing was the lack of coconut flavour in it.
Another add on order of their edamame sundal. Loads of coconut flavour in this one with cashews and shredded coconut as well. This was outstanding. 👍🏼
A third add on of their podi idly. Podi was salty and nutty and fragrant but hadn't much heat with the spices they used. I liked this. It's a signature dish of theirs and apparently the podi changes weekly.
Payasam was part of the lunch. This one tasted like it was made with millet or oats. Yummy.
Not part of the lunch set but we wanted so masala chai to end. Spice infusion was not one of the stronger ones around but the tea was smooth and pretty enjoyable.
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