Saravanah Bhavan A South Indian Restaurant

This week am going to talk about a different and unique experience with Indian food, specifically south Indian food. For those of you who do not know south Indian food is mainly vegetarian. However, I am not vegetarian and never have been. 

The restaurant that I have tried in  downtown Manhattan NYC is called Saravanah Bahavan. The restaurant is pretty small in size, and it has many locations around the world such as the united emirates and Canada,  but its original location I believe is Singapore. 

The food that they serve is mainly in a big plates that has bread stuffed with Indian spices, and three side sauces with it. The way people eat it is they dip the bread in the three sauces. I remember the sauces were all made with coconut, one of them was mint and coconut, and one was plain coconut, and one was I believe tomatoes and coconut. At first the ingredient have sounded a little weird to me, but when I tasted it, I actually liked it because the Indian spices is what brings it together and makes the dish tasty. One thing I would warn people to be careful from is their spicy food, because spicy food is not just a little or mild spicy, IT IS VERY SPICY.  I personally love spicy food and when I first came there I choose their spicy dish, and I ended up with stomach ache the whole day, although I am used to spicy food and I eat it often. So yeah guys that is a warning! :P 

I like Indian food because Indians use a lot of spices in their food, and it is something I am used to, because in my culture we tend to use a lot of spices as well and that is what makes our food special and tasty. The only thing that I do not like about the south Indian food is as I just mentioned their spicy food is too spicy. 

Barbes Morrocan Restaurant

In this blog post am going to talk about my favorite Arabic restaurant in New York, Manhattan. I am originally from Libya, it is located in North Africa. Since I am Arab I grew up on Arabic food and I love it. Barbes Moroccan restaurant is one of the restaurants that make me experience the taste of home food, and I really enjoy it. My absolute favorite meals are Couscous and Tajine. Couscous is a type of North African semolina in granules made from crushed durum wheat. Also, there is a tomato sauce with vegetables and either lamb or fish, but it can be served with vegetables only. Back home we like to have the tomato sauce spicy. Also, we make the tomato sauce with lamb and vegetables: onions, tomatoes, chickpeas, zucchini, pieces of green peppers, and potatoes. Tajine is also a North African dish and it is basically a stew of spiced meat and vegetables prepared by slow cooking in a specific type of cooking dish, which is a shallow earthenware cooking dish with a tall conical lid. Both of these dishes are absolutely delicious.

Another thing that makes me love this restaurant is the beautiful decoration and the environment. When you walk in you feel as if you are entering a really nice romantic cozy place. Also, they usually put small candles on the tables when the sun goes down. The candles make the environment become romantic. The only thing that I don’t like about this restaurant is the fact that it is small in size.

I really recommend that anyone who is interested in trying Arabic
restaurants that they go to Barbes. Am absolutely certain
they are going to fall in love with it, especially if they come
from a country where they eat food with a lot of flavor and spices.