There are coastal cuisine restaurants and then there is Moonrakers!
Tucked in deep inside Mammallapuram, Moonrakers offers the most chilly, juicey, lip-smacking coastal cuisine. We went there a year back and we came out with charred tongues & satisfied souls. This year, I scheduled our annual vacation at Mahabs JUST SO THAT WE COULD GO AND EAT AT MOONRAKERS. And, eat we did! All meals for 2 whole days! And just when you are visualizing a varied cusine that will tantalize every taste bud that you possess hear this - they cook every dish in ONE DRAGON HOT RED CURRY!!
You can order squids, giant prawn, live lobster, snapper, mackerel, blue crab... just about anything.. You will get it smothered and fried in that same yummy brilliant red curry. And what a curry that is... Its sight is enough to get your stomach rumbling, fresh out of the frying pan as it splatters all around the table. You eat a morsel and you would be gulping down jugs of cold beer next (which they server in steel glasses since they do not have a alchocol license yet AND you need to hide the beer bottles under your chairs!). You would say out loud "Oh this is my last bite", licking those finger tips clean and then reach out for the snapper with it's eyes still embedded in it's sockets. An hour later you would be sweating and panting and thats when the waiter would come and ask "Ayoo Madam, Neutela pancake?".
Aha! and that brings me to the second reason why we go to Moonrakers. To be quite honest that neutela pancake is nothing to boast about. But, when you have just devoured a platter of squids, followed by a giant whole fish the neutela pancake is nothing short of genius. To bring things in persective here is a 'Before' and 'After' pic at Moonrakers.
