Ingyin Nwe South India Food Centre

Ant has deserted me to return to slave in London for a few weeks. Mel remains, so she got to choose the diner location. We happened upon the super super cheap Ingyin Nwe South India Food Centre. There we were tempted by the mouth watering menu (and the fact it was one of the only places in the street which had electricity during a power cut).

We found it so very hard to choose what to eat. Would it be the “Oily Snake Head Curry”… or the “Snake Head Sour Gravy”… or the “Mutton Entrails”… or perhaps just plain “Oily Curried Chicken”? I didn’t really like to enquire as to what “Mutton Fighting Ball” was.

Given Mel’s vegetarian status, and my preference to eat large volumes of veg at any opportunity we both chose #2. “Vegetable and Rice”. Turned out to be a very fine, if comparatively unadventurous, decision. We each had a huge tin plate of rice and 3 types of curry. Over this the man with the tin bucket in the left hand photo poured delicious dal. There were also side dishes of chapattis, and 2 different okra based curries. Was very good, and reminded me a lot of Nepali food… and for 70p you cant really go wrong!

Oh yes and the yellow paste on the man’s face is called Thanaka. You see many people wearing it here. It is a paste made from some sort of bark, and I think is used partly as a cosmetic, and partly as a cooling moisturiser and sun screen.