A pani puri treat

My wife and I made a short three-day, two-night trip to KL. Took the eight o'clock ETS train that arrived almost on the dot at KL Sentral. I wonder when will KTM get to finish upgrading their dual tracks from the Sungai Buloh station to KL Sentral? It takes so long to travel between these two points on the usable single track. As nobody's actually complaining seriously, KTM is taking their own sweet time to finish this task and in the meantime, the passengers have to endure stopping for what seemed like ages at the stations and moving at a pace not reflective of their electric train service. C'mon, KTM, buck up!

Anyway, the first thing we did was to search for food. With Sushi Tei having closed their outlet at Nu Sentral, we decided to walk Jalan Tun Sambanthan to find this restaurant known as Mr Naan and Mrs Idly. We've been here before, a good four years ago, and we wondered whether they'd still be around post-Covid. Found the restaurant still surviving with lots of patrons. Food is good. I guess good food will always attract the crowd. The wall decorations were still there although they were getting faded.

Ever since about two years ago, I discovered the joy of eating pani puri; those little round balls that you fill with potato masala and accompanying condiments before popping the whole ball into the mouth. Lately however, I haven't been able to find the old man selling this at the China Street-Queen Street road junction in Penang.

So imagine our joy to find pani puri on the menu of this restaurant in Brickfields. No hesitation ordering a set which came with seven pani puri balls, a serving of potato masala, some chopped raw onions (not visible in the picture) and a sweet sourish sauce. 

The highlight, however, was a serving of a chilled mint rasam. The moment we popped a pani puri ball into the mouth, the different flavours simply exploded. An experience quite unlike other pani puri that we've taken before. Just writing about it makes me feel like going back to KL for another treat.