hi all! today’s post is on some pretty exotic food from nepal. well honestly nepalese food is quite common here in sydney, but we hardly ever have nepalese. this place is the muglan, located in surry hills. the muglan has 3 branches, with the other 2 in granville and near hyde park. this particular one is located about 15 minutes walk from central station which is pretty convenient.
the restaurant was dimly lit, and had books about nepal that you can read while you wait for your food. we took a quick look at the books and then decided that we were too tired to read.
dinner started with complimentary papadums with yoghurt sauce. the papadum was nice and crunchy, and c ate half of mine because i was too busy fiddling with the camera.
and here the fun begins! we ordered chilli chicken momo, which according to their menu is “steam dumplings fried with chilli sauce”. the texture of the skin was delicious and the meat was tasty. i really liked the slightly spicy chilli sauce on the momo and i think that set it apart from the chinese and japanese dumplings we are so used to.
the other entree we got was the mixed vegetable platter which came with 1 samosa, 2 pakoda and 1 tiki. there’s nothing to fault on this dish; i think the highlight is the pakoda which was nice and crunchy.
now on to the mains. c loves her cheese and ordered a vegetarian paneer butter masala. what can i say about this; it was absolutely delicious, and was definitely the best dish of the night for me. the gravy was just so good that i can have it with rice without the cheese. i say this is a must have if you ever visit here.
i took the liberty to order our second main which was exoticly named adhikhola ko macchatarkari, which was essentially fish cubes in himalayan sauce and tangy herbs. after the amazing paneer butter masala above i felt like the fish was a bit of a let down. it may have been the tangy herbs; i think i preferred the butter taste in the masala. it was still delicious though, and i would still happily taken down containers of this stuff.
and here’s just a photo of basmati rice to round off the mains.
for desert we both ordered kulfis. c got herself a pistachio kulfi and i got a mango kulfi. i didn’t try the pistachio, but didn’t like the mango. i am not sure if the kulfi was just not good or i do not like kulfis in general; it has a funny taste.
would i recommend this place? hell yeah. make sure you grab the paneer butter masala and the chilli momo. i would probably pass on the kulfi, but maybe that’s just me.
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