Eating Fire for Dinner
Can you tell that I am enjoying the multiculturality Toronto has to offer? I have to out myself at this point. I am a visitor. I don’t live in Toronto but I end up here for a couple weeks each year and fell in love with the city many years ago. One thing I really enjoy is all the different restaurants I can sample.
My newest experience is a Sri Lankan place called Hopper Hut at 880 Ellesmere Road (at Kennedy) in Scarborough. If you like spicy food you will love this place. My wife thought I was crazy for eating something that she says tastes like fire laced with cumin but I loved it.
One of the best parts was a banana leaf all wrapped up with different curries and coconut rice inside. I wish I could remember what it was called. My friends and I shared three dishes and have enough left for another three meals. All this cost only $20. I can’t believe how affordable it was for the quality and quantity.
My wife didn’t want any part of it but fire was exactly what I wanted, to settle my stomach after the bland foods I have eaten recently.
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Thanks for the head’s up about this place. I visit Toronto at least three times a year and while my visits are only for a week or less, I like to try a new place if I can when I get a chance to meet up with friends. The biggest disappointment is when your friends have no idea of where to go and they live in the city.
See ya back in DC!
“One of the best parts was a banana leaf all wrapped up with different curries and coconut rice inside.”
Sounds like an Indian dish called Paan. If you like Indian food I suggest you check out the Coxwell and Gerard area.
If you’re looking for a specifically vegetarian restaurant, Udupi Palace on Gerrard, just west of Coxwell is pretty darn good. It’s south Indian food, which is quite different from the usual Tandoori, curries, kormas you’ll find in many Indian restaurants. Plus it has both fire and “cool.”