AASIFE - AS IF, Aa Sip, Aa chip, Aawes If...

ASSIFE - AS IF e, Aa Sip, Aa chip,  Aws If...

AS-IFs: This place looks like as-if they own the whole butt-road area with 3 shops on both sides of the junction... sign boards flashing.  
If you pan your eyes from left to right you can see the metamorphosis of a shop-to-restaurant - from a shop with ear-deafening clammer on the biriyani anda to the take-away counter opposite to it and next to it is the dinning restaurant - where we went

CFG Men at work - the usual suspekts and the newbies...

 The chicken soup and the seafood soup with crab lollipops

AA-Sip: the next to arrive were the soups. They were spicy and decent with lot of coriander added to it. Crab lollipops looked like stuff picked up from a frozen food counter not made at the resto

  

 

      Crab lollipop                                                                                                           Shawarma

AA-chip: Chip-off chicken skewered up on a rod cooked with flames from the side and all around. These shreds of chicken are mixed with sweet mayo, tomatoes, veggies and rolled inside a flat bread. Thats Shawarma for you. The chicken here tasted minced rather than shredded and the mayo was sweet tasting and not so good when it was cold

The menu card is so out of place.. if they meant home like food in a restaurant.. it puts me off right there

 

The com-bow special for  Nag

 

Grilled-chicken with khubz bread and SWEET Mayo 

The chicken was tender and juicy.. no hard chewing nor bad taste.. the only problem was with the oil as it tasted very odd.

Prawn 65 with sweet hot chilli garlic sauce

 

Chilly fish                                                                                                            Chilly fish           

The batter fried fish had a leathery consistency to the outer coating but the fish tasted good. Soya sauce and the chopped onions enhanced the flavor, not bad in taste
 

Chi. hariyali kebab: The green monster that had too much food color, sweet in taste but why???

 

(L-R) 3-biriyanis Regular, Afghani and prawn

Regular Biriyani (Manja Biriyani): Made with long basmati rice but the typical 

Mughal Biriyani: Sweet! it was like biriyani fried rice with egg scramble cashews, sultanas and cardamom. why would a biriyani taste so sweet?

Prawn Biriyani:  Sweet again! it was like, they used the same biryani and replaced the chicken with prawns.What was interesting was to make it look like there were more prawns, they cut the prawns into half (smart move)

Location: If you get down the kathipara flyower, on to the butt road, and head towards porur, Aasife is at the junction of mount and you cant miss it with so many hoardings and signboards around

Verdict: 
Aws-if: If they don't turn things around drastically, people like us (CFGians who attended) are never going to try this place. Stop making things so sweet (mayo, biriyani), improve the quality/taste (had a stomach upset next day) 

Aasife Brothers-in-arms - to disarm you completely the next morning. Ass-if-e(atery) went not so well down the "butt" road after-all...