Tastebud : Shere Khan (2nd time)

15 July 2025

Here I am, back in Shere Khan for the second time. The first time I was here, I thought the food was nothing extraordinary. This time, I went with a different group and they thought the food was really good. For me, coming from Malaysia, it felt nothing special. The group that I went with were Swedes. 

I booked a table with TheFork where we got 30% discount for our main meals. Drinks, appetizer, and bread were not included. We shared 3 appetizers - 2 large pieces of papadam 45kr, fuchka 99kr and pakora 89kr. For the main meal, I had Dopiaza lamb 219kr, and paid 153,30 after 30% discount, and a plain naan bread for 30kr. 

Papadam has always been a favourite of mine. The papadam came with mango chutney which I enjoyed. 

Fuchka is a national  street food in Bangladesh - Hollow bread that is deep-fried and filled with yellow peas, potatoes, chaat masala, fresh coriander and eaten with tamarind sauce. That is the reason of the spoon in the sauce bowl. 

Pakora was the best here as the mint really lifts up the dish - Crispy spinach and cream cheese balls. Flavored with ginger, garlic and mint. 

The main meal was filling for me as I had both bread and rice. I did a little research and dopiaza means two onions in Persian and a dish found in Iran and South India. Dopiaza is a dish with more onions than meat. Yes, I did eat a lot of onions in the curry. 

Tastebud : Asahi Fondue & Grill

1 July 2025

Today's dinner is a new sort of cuisine for me - Korean barbeque. I read from the reviews that this is unlike the real Korean barbeque as the slices of meat are not marinated. (according to Wikipedia, the meat is marinated with a mixture of soy sauce, sugar, ginger, scallions, sesame oil, garlic and pepper). Apparently, there is unmarinated meat too but then it will not differ from any usual meat. 

As the meat served was unmarinated, I did not find anything special with today's dinner. There were three of us and each person paid 359kr. It includes beef, chicken, bacon, oyster, prawn, squid, sweet potato, onion, zucchini, mushroom and a cabbage head to eat the grilled food in. We could create our own dip sauce too from the sauce booth. It reminded me of the sauce booth in Happy Lamb Hotpot. One can have a refill of meat and vegetables if one is still hungry. We did that but half of the portion.

We could take the fried food from the buffet section too. The raw ingredients were served to us at the table. So, I took fried chicken, a spring roll and fried bread (you tiao). I was so excited when I saw the fried bread (second photo - the food next to the prawn chips) because it is one of my favourite food! But it tasted not good at all! It was tasteless and hard. Ugh. 

For dessert, there was an option of fruits and an ice-cream machine. So, I had ice-cream with strawberries and raspberries. Yummy. The three of us agreed that we should not eat buffet next time. We ate too much and walked home instead of taking the train.