MOGHUL MAHAL RESTAURANT: YOUR IDEAL RESTAURANT FOR NORTHERN INDIAN FOOD

A few days back, I went to Restaurant Moghul Mahal at No 153A, Jalan Sultan Abdul Samad and what I saw was indeed a beautiful sight. The moment I walked into Restaurant Moghul Mahal, I experienced the kind of peace and serenity that I had never experienced before. The restaurant is beautifully decorated and is very clean. It also has a  very clean and beautiful kitchen and the workers here do not prepare foods outside the restaurant. All the food preparations and cooking are done inside its kitchen. The workers of Restaurant Moghul Mahal are also dressed very neatly and they have very good manners. Below are some photos of Restaurant Moghul Mahal which I took that day.

Moghul Mahal is pronounced Moghul Meh-hel  and it means, Moghul Palace. How grand! Good After Noon is a greeting offered, when one walks in for lunch at this restaurant.  This is where you can find authentic North Indian Cuisine & Indian Sweets. Let the spices add variety to your life...

 

The Restaurant's VIP Dining Hall

 

 

 

 

Restaurant Moghul Mahal caters for all kinds of functions and events. For catering services, you can call Vicky M.D. @ 019-6489896 or 03-22725870. (Email: mm.8288@yahoo.com).

 

 

 

Fennel – on the house
 

People normally eat this last in any good Northern Indian restaurant but I love to eat it first as I enter the shop. What is it? Well, fennel seeds of course. The distinctive liquorice taste is so delicious and reminds me of candy. Not only that, fennel is one of the best digestive aids in town. The seeds can be used in cooking, or made into a tasty licorice tea, and is useful to relieve abdominal cramps, gas and bloating. So the way I see it, if you eat this first (as opposed to at the end of the meal) then you can eat that much more without feeling sick. Maybe.

 

At Moghul Mahal, the first thing that catches your eye is, apart from spanking new, white and pristine tiles, this shop has the most amazing selection of Indian sweets. It goes on for as far as the eye can see. We spent ages photographing the candy but the waiters here were extremely helpful and took out tray after tray for us to shoot. How obliging.

 

Pani Puri – RM5.00 per plate

Right, so fennel in my stomach and photos of sweets in my camera, it was time to order. The first thing that caught our eye on the menu was the Pani Puri. It looks like a mini puri that is round and hollow in the centre, fried to a crisp and filled with a watery mixture of tamarind, cumin, chili, chaat masala, potato, onion and chickpeas. Its size is small enough to fit into even my mouth. I love it. Makes it so easy to gobble up in one swift movement. My good friend, Dr Suj, she told me that the Water green liquid is incredibly good for the stomach because of the tamarind pulp and the cumin water (cumin relieves flatulence, bloating, gas and a whole host of other related stomach ailments).

 

This is how you eat it.
 

Fresh Lassi.. smooth, thick and creamy.

 

Fish Tikka at RM12.00.. sizzling hot and soft and flaky in texture. Oh sweet, sweet fish of mine!
 

Freshest Na’an in town.
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Cubes of addictive Palak Paneer..
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Butter Chicken – RM13.00; Palak Paneer  – RM8.00; Garlic Butter Na’an bread – RM2.50;
Kashmiri Na’an bread -RM4.50

 

Palak Paneer is my all time favourite vege dish.. for want of a better word. Anyway, this is as close as you will get to a vegetable dish in a Northern Indian restaurant. Palak Paneer goes great with anything.. From chapatis, puris, parathas to bhaturas.. it’s all good. The texture of the cheese really gets under my skin. That almost rubbery, tasteless square chunks of curd, with that generous slathering of spinach is almost too astronomically good for words. Love.
My same friend Dr Suj also got all excited thinking that I wanted to try and make Palak Paneer when I asked her how it was made. Actually, all I wanted was to write it down for my blog.
Anyway Dr Suj told me that this is a rather easy dish to make.
Boil fresh milk.
Add lime juice and the milk starts to curdle.
Once curdled, strain through cloth.
Once all excess water is removed, tie it up,
and put a heavy pot over it for 2 hours,
until it flattens out.
Then open cloth and cut and fry to taste.

 

Gulab Jamun – RM1.50 per ball.

Read about C&C’s other favourite place, to buy Gulab Jamun .. here
 

Some people like it light and airy on the inside. Some people like it really heavy and soaked through with all the syrup and sugar. I like my gulab both ways! The ones at Moghul Mahal are heavy and dense. Finally, my companions ended their lunch with a cup of Bru each and me, the black coffee. Bru is an instant coffee that has a unique aroma and taste due to a blend of 70% coffee and 30% Chicory, a perennial plant. A coffee favorite in India for those special times and also here, in Kuala Lumpur, apparently!

Bru + fresh cows milk = instant heaven in a cuppa.
 

(Part of this article is excerpted from http://ccfoodtravel.com/2009/10/moghul-mahal-northern-indian-at-brickfields/)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DIRTY RESTAURANT WORKERS WHO DO NOT LIKE TO CHANGE THEIR CLOTHES DAILY

As usual, at 6.10 a.m. this morning, yarl restaurant turned on its noisy kitchen hood motor again to chase everyone out of their bedrooms.Once this kitchen hood is turned on, it will never stop until late at night. Last night, yarl restaurant only turned off its noisy kitchenhood at 11.00 p.m. which means that yarl restaurant's victims are only allowed 7 hours of sleep. Just imagine how our young children, babies and old folks who need 8 hours of sleep a day and who don't need to get up so early are going to endure this kind of noise and sleep deprivation everyday of their lives. Even the worst criminals are not tortured so seriously with noise and sleep deprivation every day of their lives. Since yarl restaurant's boss is so selfish and stubborn and insists on making thunderous noise with its noisy kitchen hood every day even though he knows that he is causing a lot of sufferings to its victim, the only thing we can do now is to beg for help from the members of the public. It seems that the only people who can help us are the members of the public. Can the members of the public please sympathize with us and help us to boycott yarl restaurant's air and noise program so that we don't have to suffer in hell anymore.

Something happened to yarl restaurant on Monday, 23 June 2014. On that day, as usual, yarl restaurant turned on its loud and  thunderous kitchen hood at 6.00 a.m. in the morning. But at around noon, the kitchen hood was turned off suddenly and for the past dew days there was no noise from yarl restaurant's kitchen hood. Why is it so? The officers from the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) visited yarl restaurant on that day and the moment they came, yarl restaurant's workers quickly turned off their noisy kitchen hood. For a few days, they dared not make noise but after a few days, things are back to normal for yarl restaurant. Yesterday, yarl restaurant's noisy kitchen hood made noise until 11 p.m. and this morning it started making noise again at 6.10 a.m. as usual.

On 14 June 2014, I wrote about and published photos of yarl restaurant's worker who did not change his clothes for 2 days. (Please click here to read this article). However, he is not the only one who does not like to change his clothes daily. In today's article, I will publish photos of another worker of yarl restaurant who does not like to change his clothes daily. It seems that yarl restaurant's workers really do not like to change their clothes daily! Would you like to eat foods prepared by restaurants workers who do not care about personal hygiene? Please scroll down to view the photos below taken on 20 June 2014, 21 June 2014, 10 June 2014 and 11 June 2014. First of all, please compare the photos taken on the 20 June 2014 and 21 June 2014. Do you notice that the guy in the grey shirt was wearing the same shirt and pants on these 2 days? In the first 4 photos taken on 21 June 2014, you can see the guy in the grey shirt who does not like to change his clothes daily.

Do you notice that the guy in the grey shirt (photos taken on 21 June 2014) was wearing the same shirt and pants on 20 June 2014 and 21 June 2014? 

 

 

Do you notice that the guy in the grey shirt (photos taken on 20 June 2014) was wearing the same shirt and pants on 20 June 2014 and 21 June 2014?

 

 

Again, let us compare the photos taken on 10 June 2014 and 11 June 2014. Do you notice that the guy in the red T-shirt was wearing the same T-shirt and grey pants for 2 days?

 



On the 10 June 2014, do you notice that the guy in the red T-shirt was probably having a runny nose and was wiping mucus from his nose on his sleeve? He was wearing a pair of grey pants and blue slippers.

On the 11 June 2014, the guy in the red T-shirt above was still wearing a red T-shirt and the grey pants that he was wearing the day before. This could only mean one thing i.e. he did not change his clothes. The mucus from his nose that he wiped on his sleeve the day before must have already bred a lot of bacteria and with the dirty clothes that he was wearing that day, he prepared foods for yarl restaurant's customers. How dirty!

It seems that yarl restaurant's workers do not care much about hygiene. Remember the pissing guy? You can click here to watch a video of this guy pissing into the drain. He is the guy in the brown T-shirt in this photo. Pissing into the drain and preparing foods next to the drain full of piss are things that only the dirtiest restaurant workers in the world would do. However, this is nothing new to yarl restaurant. Hope you enjoy your foods there.

How do you like eating foods prepared by restaurant workers who don't care much about hygiene? There are actually many clean restaurants around and yarl restaurant is NOT a necessity. Any eatery on the streets is cleaner than yarl restaurant. At least the workers in other restaurants know how to change their clothes daily and they don't prepare their foods near garbage dumps. Given the filthy way in which foods are prepared at yarl restaurant, it is advisable that the members of the public should eat elsewhere for the sake of their health. Want to know how filthy yarl restaurant is? Please click yarl restaurant's dirty outdoor kitchen, yarl restaurant and bird flu, garbage dump outdoor kitchen and you will know how filthy it is.

PREPARING FOODS NEAR GARBAGE DUMPS: PHOTOS OF THE WEEK

Above is a video of yarl restaurant's worker preparing foods near garbage dumps taken on 20 June 2014 at 5.40 a.m. in the morning. You can also view this video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw_enYyS7go. You can also click here to read the email that I have sent to the Kuala Lumpur City Hall to complain about yarl restaurant's air and noise pollution program.

This Sunday morning, as usual, yarl restaurant started making loud and thunderous noise with its noisy kitchen hood at 6.05 a.m. and chased everyone of their bedrooms. This is nothing unusual for yarl restaurant is doing it every day. Yesterday, yarl restaurant turned on its kitchen hood even earlier i.e. 6.00 a.m. and the day before at 5.40 a.m. Old folks, young children, babies and sick people who do not need to get up so early have no choice but to wake up immediately as soon as yarl restaurant starts making loud and thunderous noise with its noisy kitchen hood and leave their bedrooms. Even
on Saturdays and Sundays, we are not spared. Although we do not work during the weekends, we cannot sleep a little bit later than usual because of the noise. Whether it is a Sunday or a public holiday, we have to leave our bedrooms early in the morning as soon as yarl restaurant turns on its noisy kitchen hood. This is actually a very cruel thing to do but yarl restaurant's boss is doing it every day without the slightest feeling of remorse even though he knows that he is causing everyone in the neighbourhood to suffer for his business. Wonder why there are still so many people who like to patronize yarl restaurant. Apart from selfishness and cruelty,  yarl restaurant's workers do not care about hygiene. If you love to eat dirty foods prepared near crow infested garbage dumps, yarl restaurant is your ideal restaurant. What I write here is the truth supported by evidence i.e. photos and videos. Please scroll down and click on the links given in this article and you will see lots of dirty things about yarl restaurant.

1. Do you know that yarl restaurant's workers like to piss and prepare foods at the same place? Please click here to see a video of yarl restaurant's worker pissing into the drain. The place you see in this video is also yarl restaurant's outdoor kitchen where foods are prepared. (Please take note that apart from yarl restaurant's workers, tramps, drug addicts, and passers-by also like to piss in the drain at yarl restaurant's outdoor kitchen where foods are prepared).
2. Yarl restaurant's kitchen is probably too small and that's why it is making use of the garbage dumps nearby (also known as its outdoor kitchen) to prepare food. You can click here to view some exotic photos of yarl restaurant's outdoor kitchen. You can also click here to read about how garbage dumps can be turned into open air kitchens.
3. There are many crows in the neighbourhood and these crows often land on the dirty homemade table which yarl restaurant's workers use to prepare food because there are things to eat on this table. The crows are therefore luckier than yarl restaurant's customers because they get to eat the foods first before the foods are given to yarl restaurant's customers. Let's hope you won't get bird flu after eating crow infested foods. Please click here to see photos of yarl restaurant's crow infested outdoor kitchen.
4. Yarl restaurant is very special because it is the only restaurant (as far as I know) which likes to prepare foods near garbage dumps. Do you know that you can get food poisoning from eating foods prepared and cooked near garbage dumps? Please click here to read the article entitle "Preparing Foods Near Garbage Dumps Can Cause Food Poisoning.".
5. Do you know that yarl restaurant's workers do not care about hygiene? Please click here to view photos of yarl restaurant's workers who did not change thier clothes for 2 days but were busy preparing foods at yarl restaurant's outdoor kitchen.

Below are some of the latest photos of yarl restaurant taken this week. The sight of yarl restaurant's workers preparing foods near garbage dumps can really make one vomit. In actual fact, these garbage dumps (as what you can see in the photos below) can be considered as very clean already now. It used to be much, much, much, much worse before I first started publishing photos of yarl restaurant's outdoor kitchen in this blog.

What you see in this photo is the garbage dump on the left of yarl restaurant. What about the garbage dump on the right of yarl restaurant? Immediately after taking the above photo, I went out to take some photos of the garbage dump on the right of yarl restaurant. The following 3 photos below show you clearly what you can see on the right of yarl restaurant.

 



The garbage dump on the right of yarl restaurant.

The arrow in this photo is pointing at yarl restaurant's noisy kitchen hood. Next to the kitchen hood is yarl restaurant's outdoor kitchen where the workers prepare foods.

The arrow in this photo is pointing at yarl restaurant's noisy kitchen hood. Next to the kitchen hood is yarl restaurant's outdoor kitchen where the workers prepare foods. Below are photos of yarl restaurant's workers preparing foods at their outdoor kitchen near the garbage dumps taken last week.