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HOPPER HUT in Toronto suburbs takes your breath away
Hopper Hut Ambience and Service 2 Stars Food 4 1/2 Stars (Out of a possible 5) 880 Ellesmere Road Scarborough, ON, Canada (416) 299-4311 Hopper Hut specializes in Sri Lankan Tamil Cuisine of the fiery kind. You enter a shop that looks like a take out with a counter, You go into the dining room from the side. There is also an entrance from the back which might be considered by the restaurant as a front entrance, The dining room as about 10 tables with modest plastic table covers with floral designs. You have the standard Sri Lankan fare, the Kutthu Rottis(Devilled Cut up Rotis mixed with your choice of meats,chicken,fish and vegetables sauteed in Hot and fiery concoction), String and Plain Hoppers(rice cakes with egg both plain and stringed with a mild sweet cocout milk accompaniment, Toungue scalding chilli Hot curries of different varieties etc. These are all good. But their Piece de Resistance, is their Lampreis dishes: The Sri Lankan Tamils also call these dishes Kattu Shoru( or 'Tied Up' Rice) where a kind of Biriyani, that is cooked rice in a scalding chilli hot sambhal sauce with three seperately prepared vegetable of like hotness along with a side dish of Karuvadu(or dried fish) and your choice of meat, chicken,fish or vegetable) are all tied together in a large bannana leaf and then steamed. These dishes come to the table piping hot tied in thick wrapping paper. You untie the paper wrapping and then unravel the plaintain leaves and you are faced with a generous portion of the steaming contents. One dish could suffice for two persons with average appetites. Desserts and drinks are nothing special. But Hopper Hut is most kind to the wallet. A $40-$45 bill for a dinner party of five. Faint hearts with delicate palates will find Hopper Hut much too overwhelming, but to a practiced hand at hot food, this restaurant is worth driving a long distances to. Go to it ! Gopal |
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