Veg Biryani
$11.00Seasonal vegetables layered with saffron basmati.
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நிலாச்சோறு மெனு
34 years of Hyderabadi biryani, Tamil Nadu tiffin, and Sri Lankan short-eats. Prices in CAD. Call (905) 276-8292 to order direct.
76 dishes · One kitchen · Two traditions
பிரியாணி
Hyderabadi dhum biryani — layered, sealed, slow-cooked with saffron basmati.
Seasonal vegetables layered with saffron basmati.
Bone-in chicken, basmati, saffron, mint. Sealed-pot dhum. Served with raita.
Slow-cooked mutton with basmati, whole spices, saffron. The Sunday biryani.
Fresh shrimp layered with saffron basmati and Hyderabadi spice.
கொத்து ரொட்டி
Godhamba roti chopped on the griddle with eggs, vegetables, gravy — Sri Lankan street food at home.
Chopped godhamba roti with seasonal vegetables and spiced gravy.
Chopped roti tossed with egg, onion, green chili, gravy.
Chopped roti with chicken, egg, vegetables, thick curry gravy.
Chopped roti with slow-braised mutton, egg, gravy.
Chopped roti with spiced beef, griddle-tossed with egg.
Mixed seafood with chopped roti, coconut-spiced gravy.
உணவு
Thali — rice, curries, rasam, sweet. What Amma would have made you.
Rice and moong dal cooked soft with ghee, black pepper, cashew, ginger.
Compact thali — rice, two curries, rasam, papad.
Rice, flavored rice, 4 veg curries, 2 chapathis, rasam, papad, sweet.
Full thali with chicken or egg curry, rice, 3 veg sides, rasam, papad, sweet.
Ceylon-style king fish in coconut-tamarind curry. Confirm price on order.
Four boiled eggs simmered in spiced tomato-onion gravy.
தோசை, இட்லி
Tamil Nadu breakfast, available all day. Chutney and sambar always included.
Crisp, long plain dosa with chutney and sambar.
Dosa roasted with ghee until golden-brown crisp.
Crisp ghee-roasted dosa, spiced potato masala, chutney, sambar.
Lacy semolina dosa — crisp and fragrant.
Rava dosa stuffed with spiced potato masala.
Dosa topped with whisked egg, green chili, onion.
Dosa with onions and green chili griddle-cooked into the batter.
Andhra green-moong dosa, ginger-green chili chutney.
Pesarattu with onion and green chili pressed into the batter.
Pesarattu stuffed with seasoned semolina upma — a Telugu classic.
Thick dosa pancake topped with onion, tomato, and green chili.
Three soft, thick mini dosas — Karnataka-style, served with chutney.
Five soft steamed rice cakes with chutney and sambar.
Five urad dal lentil donuts with chutney and sambar.
Ten mini idlis soaked in sambar — a kid favorite.
Savoury semolina with mustard seeds, curry leaves, ginger, cashew.
Puffed pooris with spiced potato curry.
Two thick uthappam pancakes with chutney and sambar.
சீன உணவு
Indo-Chinese — street-style wok fries with Tamil spice.
Wok-tossed basmati, mixed vegetables, soy, green chili.
Hakka-style noodles with shredded cabbage, carrot, scallion.
Wok-tossed basmati with chicken, egg, vegetables.
Hakka noodles with chicken, vegetables, soy.
Hakka noodles with chicken, shrimp, egg.
Basmati with chicken, shrimp, egg, vegetables.
கறி
Take-home curries, sized to feed one to a whole table. Small $4 · Medium $8 · Large $12.
Yellow lentils in Ceylon coconut-spice gravy.
Eggplant in mild coconut-milk curry — Sri Lankan kiri hodi style.
Deep-fried eggplant in tangy onion-tamarind curry.
Potatoes simmered in roasted curry powder, coconut milk, curry leaves.
Tender long beans tempered with mustard, dry chili, coconut.
Soya chunks in thick onion-tomato gravy.
Spinach tempered with garlic, mustard, fenugreek, coconut milk.
Seasonal vegetables in Ceylon curry powder gravy.
சிற்றுண்டி
The small things Tamil tea is built around. Most items are ready-to-eat out of the glass case.
Chana dal vadai — crunchy, spiced with fennel and curry leaf.
Urad dal medu vadai — soft inside, crisp outside.
Steamed rice-flour dumpling with jaggery-coconut filling.
Sweet rice-flour fritters — classic Ceylon tea snack.
Flaky pastry half-moons stuffed with spiced potato or fish.
Spiced mutton wrapped in crepe, breaded and fried to order.
Spiced potato wrapped in crepe, breaded and fried.
Flaky stuffed rotti with spiced mutton filling.
Flaky stuffed rotti with vegetable-coconut filling.
Hopper — bowl-shaped rice-flour-and-coconut-milk pancake.
Breaded roll with spiced chicken filling.
Two bowl hoppers — bring your kothu gravy to them.
Ceylon sweet — steamed rice-flour dumplings with coconut-jaggery.
Two slices of bread folded over a chili-onion omelete.
Condensed-milk-and-egg battered toast — breakfast dessert.
Five mini dosas soaked in sambar — morning special 8–10am.
Five mini idlis soaked in sambar — morning special 8–10am.
சைவ உணவு
Sri Lankan-style take-out staples for the vegetarian table.
Rice with three Ceylon-style vegetable curries.
Steamed rice-coconut pittu with vegetable curry and coconut sambol.
பானங்கள்
Cold drinks, hot tea, homemade juice.
Strong, frothy Ceylon-roast coffee with milk and sugar.
Spiced ginger tea brewed with milk.
Hot or cold milk.
Can or bottle — ask for selection.
Fresh mango pulp, sugar, ice, cardamom.
Rose syrup, vermicelli, sabja seeds, ice cream.
Chilled fresh young coconut water.
Chilled fresh young coconut water — big serve.
Bottled water.
Hot biryani ready for pickup in 20 minutes. Call (905) 276-8292. Or plan ahead and let us cater your next event — we have done 34 years of them.