Fish curry rice. Review on Mangalore Pearl, Frazer Town, Bangalore

Got mail from Jasmine Ahuja of Mouthshut.com saying that I could win a Canon Powershot A610, a great Digital Camera! if I wrote just one review! That was offer I could not resist. So I’m taking a chance and writing about the fish curry rice I had for lunch and have been having on and off at a restaurant in Bangalore. I don’t know if writing a review about a humble fish curry rice is the done thing, but I’ve not had anything else here and would have to write about other dishes just by watching the expression on the faces of the eaters, which is not the done thing at all. So guess I don’t have an option.

Only hope that there’s a great big audience out there dying to get first hand info on fish curry rice. The restaurant is called “Mangalore Pearl” and is at the end of Coles Road, on the first floor, (there’s a KC Das on the ground floor) near the NDTV office. The place is neat, somewhat Spartan, I should say. This restaurant is a little difficult to classify. Middle class, I think would be an appropriate description. The fish curry rice comprises a bowl of rice (choice of boiled red rice or regular), vegetables (ladies finger seems to be popular with the chef) cooked with coconut, and seer (or is it sear or shear) fish curry with two moderate pieces. They become very moderate when the prices go up and are somewhat moderate normally. Te mandatory onions and cucumber is thrown in.

This is a meal that’s suitable for folks who cannot bring lunch from home and cant bear the stuff that the Sagars dish out or the monotony of the Nandhinis. I mean, regular lunch for office goers at a reasonable price and apparently hygienic. The taste is quite good, though I wish that the flavour of the curry would seep into the fish a little. So you have to kind of gently infuse some curry into the fish before putting it into your month. The vegetables are quite good. It is not very oily or rich and the quantity is adequate for a normal person. What a normal person is, is of course part of a larger question. Well another good thing about the fish curry rice is the price.

Pretty decent, I should say at Rs.30/-.. They also have a fish curry rice special, which also includes a slice of fried sear fish at Rs.45, I think. I’d like to write about the other stuff they serve here which I shall do if I win the camera and throw a celebratory party Cheers!