Sunday, January 31, 2010

Garlic Cheese Naan Bread

Penang is an island just off the coast of mainland Malaysia. I got here today from another island off the mainland called Lankowi, best known for it being duty free! Needless to say Id spent the last 3 days in a drunken stupor with intermitent periods of food coma from all the tempting buffet style food stands. They lay all this amazing food on a buffet line and hand you a plate of rice to add what you like. So after getting at least a little piece of everything to try they somehow figure out how much you owe and it ends up being abooooouuuuuuut 2bucks. Then you wash it down with a REAL fruit juice like watermelon or papaya juice with ice, that might add an extra 50cents. But tonight I walked into an Indian restaurant that was buzzing with people. I asked the waiter just for a piece of garlic naan bread, if youve never had naan bread before then it sucks to be you :) Its an Indian bread that is similar to pita bread and they fire roast it in a tall cylinder looking ceramic thing by slapping it on the side of the cylinder. So I asked for one garlic naan take-away/to-go, somehow he got out of that two garlic cheese naans, which was fine by me after takin a look at these things, and they come with some kinda curry soup, to dip in maybe, im not sure but I did. Soooo goood with big chunks of garlic and some kind of cheese. So, yes, i ate both of them in one inhale at the table i was waiting at and didnt waist time walking them home.
I read that Peneng is a great spot for food because of all the ships passing through dropping off curries and other spices. So having a hotel situated between a China town and little India should work out juuust fine. All i gotta do now is figure out what to do between meals.

1 comment:

  1. Just got back from Burma Dec 09, I missssssss the curries. They are so damn good, especially the ones with blended fish, never thought of blending fish into a soup broth which was so tasty and fulfilling. Will have to show you some burmese food if you stop by SF anytime soon.

    Peace and be well,
    Chris

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