Karaikudi Restaurant @ Hillside, Penang

My favourite Indian restaurant in Penang, hands down! A must eat every time I'm back on the island. Can't live without my Indian food. Love their service, the food, the affordability, everything. We order the same dishes every time we're there, even the waiter remembers our order! Haha. Saves time ordering.

Our usual trio of dishes: (From bottom, clockwise) Vegetable Jalfrize, Palak Paneer, and a chicken masala. The vegetable dish has a mix of potatoes, capsicum, tomatoes, cauliflower, carrots, cabbage and peas, absolutely delicious, trust me. This will always be licked clean by yours truly. 

Chicken masala. The smell itself makes you gain a couple of pounds, I swear.

Palak Paneer aka Goat's Cheese in Spinach Curry! OMG this is the best. The entire family loves this. Sounds and looks unappetizing, but believe me when I say looks can be deceiving, especially when it comes to Palak Paneer! One taste and I bet you'll be hooked.

The dhall curry. Thick and 'u liao', unlike the diluted versions you get at nasi kandar places. 

I really have no idea how I would live without Indian food.

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Is it me or do I have an unusual craving for Indian food every weekend? Good thing this place was open as Thaipusam was just yesterday.

Located at the Tg Bungah area, Karaikudi has always been one of my favourite Indian restaurants.  It’s nearby, reasonably priced and of course, there’s great food.

I had my all time fave, the onion rawa thosai. As always, the thosai came hot and crisp to the very last bite, with tons of garlic, onion and carrot bits hidden within.  Mom and sis had their favourite, the roti canai. I shall just quote my mom, “this is the best roti canai I’ve ever had'”.

And I’m telling you, for someone who can’t resist roti canai, when my mom says something like that, she means it.

For our veggie fix, we ordered their specialty, the Vegetable Jalfrize (pronounced Jal-frai-z) (we being dungu ordering it for the first time pronounced it wrongly :P) Good stuff. Almost like Aloo Gobi but much better as it has so many other vegetables in there, like capsicums, long beans, brinjal and carrots.

If you love Indian food or think you might like Indian food but have yet to try it, Karaikudi’s definitely the place for you.

Rating: 4.8/5
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