Try a thali
if on the menu. Lovely in Pattaya does serve this per Arsenal's post. Next time will try it myself.
Thali is an Indian style platter, made up of a selection of various dishes, served on a dishware. The 'thali' style serving is also popular in Nepal and Bangladesh. It simply means a round platter used to serve food.
arsenal (March 4th, 2017)
In Scotland we call that a plateOriginally Posted by francois
This is a Thali
Gujarati-Food-1.jpg
The platter or the contents or both?
And purely for my own information should I which to try / ask for that whilst in an Indian restaurant some night would that be considered a "main" or a ( shared ??) started perhaps ?
Ok, Nirish, enough is enough. Time to put the whisky away. Lol
Both. Just like a Balti curry (popular in the UK) the word Balti actually refers to the mini wok-like dish that the food is cooked and served in, but it also refers to the food itself. You can order a 'Balti Chicken' as a takeaway, but you don't get the steel wok!
So, a Thali is actually the steel platter, but if you order a 'Thali' in a restaurant, you of course expect to receive the food and not just the platter.
It is a complete meal in one, including desert. On the image above you can see vegetable dishes, meat dishes, dahl, butter milk soup, rice and breads. There are usually some pickles too, but none shown here. At the 11 o'clock position there is a gloopy desert which is probably very sweet and a deep-fried item, probably containing a sweet cheese (no, not a mars bar) It would be a large meal for one person, or could be shared. Up to you.
Minimee wrote:
"could be shared, up to you."
Shared, I don't think so. Share that with some of the dinosaur sized farangs I see around Sunee and Boyztown and I'd be lucky to get a lick 'a' lime pickle.
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