Passage Thru India

Passage Thru India located along Leith Street just opposite to Cheong Fatt Tze mansion serves a wide variety of Indian food with flavours from its different regions in India. On a banner it read that it was the Best Indian Restaurant in Malaysia's Ministry of Tourism and also Best Restaurant in Hospitality Asia Platinum Award.

The interior of the restaurant reminds me so much of Palace Thru India. The way the place is decorated perhaps. However I stress here, Passage Thru India and Palace d'India are two different restaurants managed by different people. I sensed the disappointment when I asked the waiter if they were under same management as Palace d'India.

There was a lot of choose from the menu that made us all confused what to eat. So in the end, to make things simple, we all ordered our own set lunch sets. It was pretty reasonably priced for what was served.

First dish served was an appetizer to eat while waiting for your food. They served us papadum with mint yogurt sauce. Yogurt mint sauce didn't have enough mint taste in it.

Papadum with mint yogurt sauce

First set lunch set: Chicken Hydrabadi.
It was chicken cooked in rich cashew nut paste served with plain briyani, potato varuval and cucumber salad. The cashew nut paste was really good and lemak in taste. Kinda reminds me a bit of a rich kurma curry taste. The potato varuval was too spicy for me as it was coated with some kind of chili powder. But everything together was good.

First set lunch set: Chicken Hydrabadi

Second set lunch set : From the Tandoor
It is a combination of plain naan and garlic naan served with oven roasted tandoori chicken thadka dhal and roghun gravy. Served at the side, was some pickled onions to eat together with the food.

Second set lunch set : From the Tandoor

Third set lunch set: Kashmiri Lamb
It had mutton chunks cooked in mild roghun gravy served with plain briyani and stir fried mixed vegetables. The mutton chunks were absolutely soft and tender and my grandma need not worry about having difficulty chewing it. Lovely.

Third set lunch set: Kashmiri Lamb

As a side dish, we ordered ourselves two extra dishes which were prawn masalla and palak paneer. Prawn Masalla was good and so was the Palak Paneer. If you are wondering what palak paneer is, well it is spinach cooked with cottage cheese. A really good dish to have. I bet Popeye would have loved it!!

Prawn Masalla

Palak paneer

Palak paneer- yellow squares are the cottage cheese

Curries and yogurt salad to eat together with the food

For dessert, we had our eyes fixed on Kulfi. It really hard to find these nowadays. Well it is actually Indian ice-cream. It is not any normal ice creams you get from Walls or Nestle, this kind of ice cream has its own unique flavour which contains delicate flavour of spices such as cardamom. For me, I would say it is like blending up payasam (other indian desert) and freezing it to become ice cream. Here at Passage thru India, the Kulfi served was way too sweet. It was like as if you were licking off the tin of condense milk. We were quite disappointed with it. If the sugar was cut down to half the sweetness, it would have been excellent.

Kulfi, Indian Ice Cream. It had a lot of nuts at the bottom

The banner

Below are some decorations in the restaurant

Myself with my family

Our plates after eating

For reservations: Tel: +604 2624644
Address: 11A, Leith Street, 10200 Georgetown, Penang