KL Food Trip: Fierce Curry House | eat. drink. cook. travel.

DC wanted to indulge me on my birthday and took me to KL not just to see Noid and Cheese, but also to eat. We got rituals like going on pilgrimage to Klang out of the way quickly, and on the day of my birthday, we found ourselves at Fierce Curry House. I?d first heard of Fierce Curry House on Facebook when it ran its tight T-shirt promotion: the first few men who showed up in tight V-neck shirts and carrying a man bag would get free biryani. What a great stunt that even I heard of it down south in Singapore. When a friend posted a picture of the lobster biryani, we were sold. That?s how we found ourselves off the main Bangsar drag in front of a slightly shabby stretch of shophouses. It looks like a typical non-airconned place from the outside, with a large steamer stack full of biryanis and a large thosai/roti canai griddle in the front. Venture inside, however, and there?s a fairly spacious airconditioned area, complete with a crazy number of exhaust fans on the walls.

We weren?t here to ogle the walls, but the large steamer full of biryani that we?d pre-ordered. They set it over solid fuel camp stoves to keep it warm?

? and sealed the biryani pot with dough to keep the moisture and flavour in. We were so excited we couldn?t wait for the latecomers and asked them to go ahead with the unveiling. It was such a spectacle that other tables started taking pictures of our biryani too!

At first, we wondered where the lobster, was?

? and pretty much sighed with relief when each half emerged after a spot of digging with the tongs.

One of the sweet servers gamely held up the whole thing for a nice photo op before whisking it to the kitchen. We almost yelled after her ?where are you going with my lobster?!? before realising that they needed to chop it up for us first.

In the mean time, we contented ourselves with taking pictures of the fragrant rice and accompanying gravies and raitas.

Then the lobster made its comeback and we happily dug in.

The verdict? The lobster itself was a tad overrated. While of a decent size, there isn?t a great deal of meat in one lobster to go with the easily six servings of rice in the pot. The meat itself was rather mushy, showing that it?s most likely frozen lobster. But the rice itself was a revelation. It was proper basmati rice that was beautifully fluffy and infused with the scent of cardamom and most strongly of lobster. Cooking it dum style sealed in all the goodness and allowed the lobster flavour to permeate. It was just as well that the lobster meat wasn?t that great. Still, for RM240, it?s expensive even by Singapore standards.

Other dishes included the highly rated deep-fried bitter gourd. It was very nicely crisp and intensely bitter ? they made it with the proper kind of bitter gourd, the deep green and prettily frilled baby ones.

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We heard good things about the lamb dishes and ordered a lamb masala to complement the lobster. It was wonderfully tender and with nicely melded spices ? excellent with the biryani rice or a thosai on the side.

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Fierce Curry House is a nice place to check out for the spectacle of a proper biryani. They use decent quality ingredients (especially if you consider frozen lobster decent quality), but is of course pricier because you?re paying for the brand, the Bangsar location and the aircon room. I?d go again because exchange rate is much in my favour!

Fierce Curry House
16 Jalan Kemuja, Bangsar Utama, Kuala Lumpur, MY.
Tel: +6019-383-0945 / +603-2202-3456

Source: http://eatdrinkcooktravel.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/kl-food-trip-fierce-curry-house/

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