Curry Club back at Sahid's Shah Jahan
Curry Club back at Sahid's Shah Jahan
Evi Mariani, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
After an absence of about a year, Indian restaurant Shah Jahan is
now offering again a special buffet of curry dishes at a
reasonable price with a free flow beer for curry-lovers.
"We're providing a buffet of about seven to 10 dishes of curry
on the last Friday of every month," Shah Jahan public relations
officer Marjam J. Tarantin said.
At only Rp 100,000 (US$11), curry-lovers may savor delicious
paneer makhini (lamb milk tofu with cashew nut sauce) or Kashmir
rogan josh (lamb curry).
Even better, the restaurant, which has a beautiful interior
decor, offers free-flow beer from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
On other days, Shah Jahan provides a regular a la carte service.
"Our regular customers usually come late at night, at about 9
p.m.," Marjam added.
Curry Club usually attracts about 30 curry-lovers once a month
to sample curries and also enjoy themselves.
"Back then at Shah Jahan, the club usually elects a president
every month. The president then decides what kind of experimental
curry they should have at the next lunch," said Sahid chef and
beverage manager Gordon Fairley.
"One time they had curry eaten from a freshly cut coconut
shell, which was suspended from their necks," Fairley said,
adding that the lunch was a fun event because they spilled the
curry on their shirts.
Many club members are foreigners, mostly Australians, who love
beer. That's why the four-hour, free-flow Heineken beer is a most
attractive offer.
Shah Jahan, which has been one of the best Indian dining
venues since the early 1990s, has recently hired a new Indian
chef, who is known as chef Singh.
"One of our latest successful experiments has been paneer
makhini," Fairley said.
He said that Shah Jahan made the tofu-like cheese from lamb
milk delivered freshly from Bogor.
The experiment produced a soft cheese with a milky flavor but
without a trace of lamb milk odor.
Shah Jahan
Hotel Sahid Jaya 18th floor
Jl. Sudirman 86
reservations: 5704444 ext.1434