By Barnalee Handique
@barnalee
There’s a new place in Koregaon park that will induce a sussegad state in you instantly. Radio Shacks makes you feel like you are in a shack in Goa.
It punches all the right buttons to draw up the ambience of a seafront holiday. At the entrance is a bottle-shaped hoarding with the names of all the Goa beaches. There is a sand lounge with psychedelic lights, a waterfall, palm trees and a low seating arrangement ideal for whiling an evening away. To work around space constraints, strategically placed mirrors on the walls and in corner expand the interiors. The soft rock and Bollywood music is soothing and turned low enough to not interrupt conversations.
The menu is a mix of Goan, Chinese, Italian, Portuguese and Indian cuisines. They also avail tandoori food. There’s also murg kali mirch which is boneless chicken marinated in spices procured from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, Sopa Grossa, thick soup made from cauliflower, carrot, peas and croquette batata queijo made of potato and cheese.
Goa is known for the seafood and if that is your fancy, try the Soup de ceullos clear soup, stuffed crabs, baked and garnished with cheese or try the surmai, pomfret, bangda and prawns in a variety of preparations such as salcette prawns curry, wadi mackerel curry and barbequed pomfret. For the main course, we ordered Gosht ki Karari Roti (lamb stuffed paratha), the Candolim fish curry basa fish cooked in a non-spicy coconut gravy and the Sunset prawn and fish curry, cooked in coconut milk. The Candolim curry is coconut based and spicy, while the Sunset prawn was in spicy coconut gravy. The fish was fresh and the meat tender and spicy. All of these can be had with either roti or rice. Radio Shacks’s signature dish, the Peixe Reacheado is a whole pomfret stuffed with prawns, fried and baked and garnished with cheese.
The fish is marinated in a Goan masala mix of onion, garlic, ginger, tomato, tamarind, cumin, turmeric and coconut.
Vegetarians can go for the delicately seasond Paneer Gulgule kebab, Sunca ani bhende sukha lady fingers stir fried with red chillies, jalapeno, malt vinegar, coriander, tamarind concentrate and coconut flakes, and the mixed vegetable platter.
The portions are generous enough for you and your friends.For drinks, the Blue Frog curacaos is mixed with fruit juice, Cosmopolitan and Froutismootui, is mixed fruit juice topped with a slice of apple.
For dessert, there’s gulab jamun and brownies served with hot chocolate sauce and ice-cream. We recommend you visit Radio Shacks every time you wish you were in Goa.
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