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Sarah Cooks: India Delights, Forest Hill
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India Delights, Forest Hill

3/15/2015 07:00:00 PM

We had the most awesome lunch with my parents today and I couldn't wait to tell you all about it!

India Delights

India Delights
59 Mahoneys Road
Forest Hill, VIC 3131
Ph: (03) 9877-7593
Website
India Delights on Urbanspoon

India Delights is on Mahoneys Road in Forest Hill (directly opposite Forest Hill Chase shopping centre), and is one of my parents' favourite restaurants. It's owned and run by a Malaysian guy, and they serve all kinds of fab Malaysian Indian food - curries, roti, thosai, satay - as well as noodle dishes like sar hor fun and curry laksa. My parents have been raving about it for months, and we finally made a trip there today.

Bain Maries

Bain Maries

Sandra and I may have gotten a little over-excited at the prospect of eating some of our Malaysian mamak stall favourites, and we totally over-ordered - oops!

We started with a couple of vadai - I'd never had these before, but they are kinda like a savoury spiced donut-slash-fritter. There was one made of rice flour, and another based on split yellow peas - both delicious.

Vadai - one made of rice flour, one made of split peas

My dad went for some of the curries in the bain marie - two meat and two vegetable curries, served with rice for $10.50. Bargain. He chose potato curry, cabbage curry, chicken curry, and a fish curry. They were all good, but the potato curry, in particular, was excellent - really spicy and with a nice flavour from toasted mustard seeds. You can also see the teh susu ais (iced milk tea) and the teh o limau ais (iced lemon tea) in the background - aaaah, memories of Malaysia!

Curries and rice - fish curry, chicken curry, potato curry, cabbage curry -$10.50

I got my favourite - murtabak! They had chicken, beef, sardine or vegetable, I went with the classic, beef. They are cooked fresh to order, and it was really great, with crispy roti on the outside, and big pieces of tender beef, potatoes and onion inside. The accompanying beef curry was really tasty too. (I was expecting minced beef in the murtabak and was pleasantly surprised that there were proper pieces of meat in there). I also got a milo ais (iced milo), because milo ais is the best.

Murtabak, curry, Milo ais, teh ais

My mum always gets the sar hor fun - flat rice noodles, stir fried with different seafood, meat, and vegetables, and drenched in an eggy sauce. Repeat orders from a Malaysian mum means it's the real deal! (I think sar hor fun is Chinese-Malaysian, rather than Indian Malaysian, but they do a really great version here!)

Sar Hor Fun - $11.00

Sandra got the mamak mee goreng, which she asked to be done vegetarian (but still with egg). It was super spicy and had heaps of smoky wok hei flavour.

Mamak mee goreng - $9.50

Quote from my parents...

Dad: The mee goreng here is much better than Pappa Rich!
Mum: Yah, Pappa Rich how siaow lah!

By the way, "how siaow" is Hokkien for "bullshit". Oh Mum!

Finally, we also had a chicken satay to share. I love the generous amount of peanut sauce they give you. It came with cucumber, onion and achar (Nyonya spicy mixed pickled vegetables). The flavour of the achar was really good, with a nice mix of spices, but the vegetables weren't as crisp as I would have liked.

Chicken satay - $10.00 for 5 sticks

SEDAP MAN

We loved India Delights and totally recommend it for a cheap and delicious feed, or for when you're feeling a bit homesick for good Malaysian Indian food!

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7 comments

  1. Haha your mum sounds hilarious! Does she swear in English or just hokkien? ;)

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  2. SARDINE MURTABAK AAAH!!!

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  3. Lorraine - Oh, you have no idea! She swears like a sailor in all languages that she knows! English, Hokkien, Malay, Cantonese....

    Hannah - I'm too timid to try that one! But I'm sure if it was covered in curry sauce I'd love it!

    Helen - Yup!

    xox Sarah

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  4. Oh yummy! I have always thought about ordering the iced milo at Pappa Rich but have always hesitated - I think I need to give it a go!

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  5. Your mom sounds so funny. I believe she can be really hilarious. By the way, all the food are good and I believe they taste good too since your mom loves it :)

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  6. Anonymous11:30 PM

    This shop is closed for good, anyone know did they open elsewhere? Thanks

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