Sunday, April 29, 2018

Moonrackers

Happened to visit Mahabalipuram over the weekend. For lunch decided to have some sea food at Moonracker's on Othavadai street. Moonraker is a goan-shack-like restaurant, quite famous for sea foods.




Even before I go there, had just 2 things in mind to order, fish curry and masala fried fish. Waitress showed us a plate of live fishes (technically not alive as they are already dead) and lobsters. I enquired to get a big shock. Heard 2000₹ just for a single koduva fish. Though I could have bargained, I decided to skip as it was an unrealistic price. Heard many especially foreigners get cheated easily in such places in Mahabs.




Kept our orders limited to the menu card as the price was clearly mentioned and they can't hike it in seconds (like live sea food). Asked for a masala fried fish(350₹) as appetizer, prawn fried rice(180₹), fish curry(250₹), steamed rice (50₹). Believe both fried and curry fish were cooked using "Sankara" fish. That's the standard for them. But if you want to choose different, then you should go for live sea fish.



Quantity was good for two for most of the dishes. Prawn fried rice had good number of yummy deep fried small-sized prawns. Fish curry was tangy with a lot of fish pieces.Masala fried fish was too good made of their own masala(mostly red chilly, garlic and curry leaves). At the end, I was like licking those chilli masala for few minutes. Wife had some rasam(50₹), which she complained later as it was too much garlic flavoured. After few talks, we decided to repeat the fried fish as the taste was lingering in our mouths.





Moonrakers have 3 branches on the same street, with valet parking available. We dined at the place opposite to the quite old one. One can visit this place just for the fantastic fish curry and fried fish. Heard their prawn fry is also too good. Just remember one thing, be extra conscious whilst selecting live sea food. If you're in budget, just stay with the items mentioned in the menu card.

One thing I hate in this place is hand-written bill. Even in this digital era, we were given a hand-written bill with 80₹GST written at the end. Have to ask to get a computerazied bill with "GSTIN". Except one or two silly issues, it was a nice lunch during a family trip.

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