Banana Leaf Restaurant

We ate here last Christmas. It's got good Indian food and a mix of Indian and Western style drinks and desserts. I hear its a really traditional Brit thing to have Indian or Indian-infused foods over the Christmas holiday period.

All the table settings have real banana leafs, hence the restaurant name. The pappadums, rice and vegetables of the day are also almost free.

You order the dishes through a waiter and the food is brought to your table. But you can take a peak into the kitchen to see all the dishes pre-cooked and lined up like a 菜饭 stall.

Since we had a large group, we ordered the curry fish-head. It's soupy and spicy with an assam base is a South Indian dish. Quite different from the other items we ordered like Paneer Butter Marsala North Indian, Black Squid Curry Sri Lankan, Tandoor Chicken North Indian Mughali, Garlic Naan North Indian Punjabi Dhaba, Fish Cutlets either Kerala or Sri Lankan.

You can come here for high tea if you are not really into Indian food. The spicy fish cutlets with a cup of warm Marsala tea was just the best part of my day.

My sis hosted a get-together over Christmas, mainly for the kids. By the time I got there the place was swimming with children, they're soo adorable. She made an Indian spiced 雪耳润肺汤 for dessert and home delivery of pizzas, salads, sausages and honey baked ham. It's not Christmas if you don't see honey baked ham everywhere.

Thank goodness I prepared some presents, I wasn't planning on giving out any presents this year. Hence, the retro gift wrapping instead of Christmasy ones.

I spent Christmas at the shopping center! Watching movies, eating fast food and window-shopping the shops that are still open. It's actually not that unusual, the place was filled with other people doing the same thing.