Malaka Spice- South East Asian specialities

Went to "Malaka spice", the South East Asian restaurant in Koregaon park today.
The restaurant has moved it's location to Lane 5 in Koregoan park.

But the experience continues to be absolutely wonderful. The restaurant has become very spacious and comfortable

The menu card which is probably the best designed menu card I have come across ever in my entire "culinary odyssey", is still the same.

It's creativity, history, food and coziness, all packaged into one very special menu card.

The restaurant continues to display paintings of upcoming artists.

And the food...simply high quality Asian cuisine and in many cases very close to authentic.

We had skewered vegetables (tofu, mushrooms and green pepper etc) served with nice peanut sauce as a starter.

We ordered one glass of red wine (Ivy Malbec for me) and Rose Zinfandel for my lady friend.

After that we had herbed brown rice and egg plant preparation done with tamarind and chilli sauce. The preparations were exquiste...The taste still lingers in mouth. The perfume and aromas of basil in the brown herbed rice, the delicate texture of grilled tofu. Wonderful.

This surely is the best South east Asian restaurant featuring cuisines from Thailand, Vietnam,Burma, Malaysia, Laos, China & Japan.

And frankly after having been to many South East Asian restaurants in different parts of the world, I would put "Malaka Spice" among the best.

Here is the website link of the restaurant.

http://www.malakaspice.com/home.html

After the really nice lunch, watched the movie "The Reader". Liked it a lot. Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes in a post war German setting.

I always enjoy movies with European settings more... In this case, the movie was shot in Germany.

The music, the acting, the cultural background all contribute to the experience...
For e.g in one scene the young boy takes Kate Winslet on a cycle trip in the countryside and stops at a church to listen to a choir (similar to a Viennesse boy choir). The trams going past small European towns, the images of post war run down buildings...

This movie dosen't dissappoint at all. Both Kate Winslet and Ralph Fineness are fine British actors. With a small but intense storyline, the movie continues to hold the audience through very intense acting moments. Winslet went onto win an Oscar for her fine performance.

The movie is for an audience with a mature taste. The idea of a boy reading Homer's Odyssey or Anton Chekov's short story is unlikely to appeal or even make sense to a primarily teenage audience at E-Square.