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The city is of Thiruvananthapuram is well versed with numbers of lodges like hotels, beach resorts or guesthouses for the convenience of the visitors here. According to the budget of oneself, visitors can get lodges to put up during their tours. One can find good hotels of two stars to five stars in the city. These hotels provide excellent facilities for dining local travel provisions and guides. For low budget visitors to this city, there are a numbers of guesthouses, tourist homes or free ashrams. These lodges are still better option for them. Hotels like Nandanam, Whitehouse beach resort, Hotel Chola International are worth mentioning.
The foods of the city are worth mentioning. The hotels and restaurants of the city serve delicious south Indian recipes. Tourists love having the typical south Indian dishes like Dosa, Idli, Sambhar, Rasam, and Rice.
The restaurants of Thiruvananthapuram also serve good wine and special dishes of Kerala like Appam, Fish Fried in Coconut oil, Nadan Chicken Curry, Unniyappam and Vermicelli Payasam. One distinct nature of dining here is that they serve their foods upon a banana leave, as it is their traditional way of serving. Some of the best-served hotels and restaurants of Thiruvananthapuram are Solomon Caterings, Safari Restaurants, The Regency Restaurants and Parthas Restaurants etc.
How to Visit Thiruvananthapuram - The Thai food festival at Buddha’s Delight, Comfort Inn is a culinary journey into the ‘land of smiles,’ as one discovers the aroma and flavours that make up Thai cuisine.
“Thais use a lot of chilli and coconut. In terms of spiciness, it is often a degree above Indian food,” says Chef Das, who is in charge of the festival at the restaurant.
Fiery hot.
How to Visit Thiruvananthapuram - Sceptical about his claim regarding spiciness, it soon vanished as I sipped into my steaming hot Mee Nahm Tao Sab soup (Rs. 80).
With its generous use of Bird’s Eye Chilli Pepper, this yellow noodle soup with diced tofu and peanuts is fiery hot but yum all the same.
Armed with a tall glass of water in hand, I took a careful bite into the starter-Thao Phrik (tofu tossed with bell pepper in chilli sauce).
Despite the threatening look of the dish and the strong smell of chillies which hit me, it wasn’t as spicy as I had expected it to be. The dish reminded me in terms of looks and taste of ‘mutton peralan.’ In fact, if it wasn’t for the fact that the restaurant serves only pure vegetarian dishes, I would have thought that I was chewing into a piece of masala-cooked mutton.
“Thiruvananthapuram Travel Info Guide - That is the beauty of tofu. It is ‘mock’ meat. There are varieties of tofu that taste like chicken and mutton and are yet 100 per cent vegetarian. Hard core non-vegetarians would not know the difference. Also tofu is said to reduce cholesterol,” says Abhishek Basu, restaurant manager.
Next came a serving of Khao Pad Sab Pa Rot Tua. Rice with pineapple and peanuts, Khao Pad Sab Pa Rot Tua goes well with Tao Hoo Che (tofu cooked with vegetables and soya sauce) and Hoy Farang (stir fried vegetables). While the Tao Hoo Che (Rs. 150) has a smoked, slightly bitter taste to the chunks of tofu, Hoy Farang (Rs. 115) which is cooked in coconut cream, has a smooth creamy feel to the sauce.
Thiruvananthapuram Travel Info Guide - Phrik Kra Thiam Woon Sen (Rs. 115) is a must try. Soft rice noodles and sliced vegetables are cooked with Thai spices and garlic in this dish. To top off my meal I had Khanom Thai (steamed banana pudding) which is mashed banana mixed with coconut and coconut cream and steamed to perfection.
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