Hotel Bismi, Angappa Naicken street, GeorgeTown

Another nice place found on a walk through the lanes of Mannady. This was a surprise find for me although this place is probably known among those of the area. It's in one of the lanes known as Angappa Naiken street. I am not sure of the exact location will update later. So while strolling through, imagine my surprise when I caught a guy frying a big bunch of fat parottas on a huge cast iron Tawa! Of course I had to stop and try. :D

I think someone has written about this place before so I recognized it immediately. The hotel with seating is in the middle of the narrow lane and adjacent to the takeaway spot while the parotta making takes place on the opposite side of the lane. In fact when there is no rush, the Parottas are flung across the street I've heard. During normal time the guy who rolls them throws it correctly on to the tawa in clockwork fashion. Anyway enough antics moving on to the food...

Their parottas are much thicker and filling than the normal ones. 3 of them is probably sufficient to fill up a normal eater. They provide a peanut based salna which is quite sweet. Usually I dont like salna with peanut in it since it's not blended in well but this was different. I liked it even though it was sweet. But I prefer the slightly more masalified one. Very few places get it right.

So I decided to get a mutton curry as well. The elderly cashier said they had Mutton korma, mutton chops, curry and a special mutton curry. He suggested the special mutton curry for 140 rs. I went for that and few parottas at 16 bucks a piece. They also have wheat parottas for 18 bucks each. They also have idiappams and idlies. No biriyani is made here. There are few chicken curries as well.

All the curries are placed in steel vessels right in front of the waiting area and we need to first get a bill for the items, then pay and present that bill to the packing guys. They look more than 20 minutes to get my order since the parottas had run out. So be prepared to wait a long time if they've run out since there will be a bit of crowd too.

Parottas were super thick and heated till crisp back home. The curry was really thick and tasted yummy with the main flavor of curry leaves in it and a sweet tinge. It was like a variant of Chettinad curries but not the usual taste. The flavor of mutton was clearly present which is nice. There was only a single huge mutton piece which isnt great quantity wise for a smaller hotel. One negative is the insane amount of oil over the curry. I drained out about 20 ml of it. :D But the parottas were a tad too thick I felt. I prefer lighter variants. Still when it is crunchy it's quite delicious with the salna and curries.

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