FAMISHED EXPLORER

 Thambapanni is a recently rebranded and revamped Sri Lankan restaurant which was taken over by a new management. They invited me to try out their food. We started with one of the famous Sri Lankan juices - the wood apple juice . It is a fruit that is very hard to find in UAE and is found in very few places around the world. It has a bit of musky and spicy flavour to it. You might have to develop a taste for it, but I really liked it as I had had it earlier. Sri Lankans have a various buns as small bites, and the restaurant has these too. They got us the fish bun , and the chicken bun which were really nice.  The chicken roll too was quite good. My favourite perhaps was the seeni sambol . This is a bun filled with spiced caramelized onions. It has a sweet and spicy flavour to it and you should surely check it out. Seeni Sambol in the background A street food item that's very popular is the Kottu roti . It is made by chopping Sri Lankan flatbread, and adding spices and veget...

 Don't be fooled by the name of the place. It is a pocket friendly multi-cuisine restaurant. They've got Indian, Arabic, and Indo-Chinese. They got us some refreshing drinks. I really liked their strawberry lassi . We started with the Arabic salad platter . This has tabbouleh, fattoush, hummus, moutabel, and vine leaves. It was nice and fresh. Everything tasted good. The vine leaves were warm as opposed to the cold ones that you usually get, but tasted really nice nonetheless.  Then we had some cheese balls . These were also stuffed with some potatoes and were quite good. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Udit 📷 [Famished Explorer] (@uditss) The chicken drumsticks were crunchy and tasted good with the sauce.  We had heard good things about the seafood platter so we called for one. This has prawns, fish, lobster, and mussels. Since we didn't want mussels, they replaced it with a bigger fish. They suggested the lobster in manchurian s...

This is definitely the place where I have seen the widest range of kulfi offerings, and I was eagerly looking forward when I was invited to try out their new outlet. They have kulfis as a stick, or you can even have it cut into pieces and served in a bowl. The paan flavour was really nice, and you can't go wrong with this one. You feel like you're having paan. The avocado flavour was something different and I hadn't had it before, but I personally did not enjoy it much. If you like something on the sweeter side, then the rose flavour is also a good option.to it. I also liked the Saffron flavour. It wasn't too sweet, but had a nice flavour of saffron to it. They have interesting items named after various places, and we tried Lahore . It is a combination of jelly and falooda topped with rabdi, and you can have your choice of kulfi with it. This was really nice since you get to have falooda, and at the same time it doesn't become overly sweet...