'Rock the Boatyani'

Popped into 'Rock the Boatyani' hosted by Smith Street Taps & Friends. The man was interested in both food and beer. I was only interested in the food. They're offering biryani from K.R. Banana Leaf (two stalls down) to pair with the beers. The beer company is launching four new and apparently very rare, sour ales from Boatrocker Brewers and Distillers. 

The featured beers were sours. Not quite my type of beer. The four sours included "House White- a blended barrel-aged Wild Sour Ale; House Red- a puckering and complex Solera Method Flanders Red, a funky and tart Feijoa Rhubarb Wild ale; and Sternweisse- a double barrel-aged (French oak and aged in standard whisky barrels) Berliner Weisse". I also hesitated because, the toilet situation in this food center is frankly, gross. Each time I visit, I tend not to drink more than two pints. I stay for as long as my bladder can tahan, with a 20-minute buffer to get home to pee.

As expected, I didn’t fancy the sours at all. Don't understand sours, never will. Paired with spicy food, sours were tolerable. I needed a pale ale 'Daydreaming in Winter' from Deeds Brewing as a solid chaser. Hahaha. We had no more stomach space to get to the milk stout of 'Odin’s Brew' by 3 Ravens. Haizzzzz.

The biryani was good! We had a mutton and a chicken. The chicken was deep fried and without the red coloring. The mutton was tender, but yes, gamey, typical of the meat. The little bit of dalcha was decent. The stall kindly gave us sambal tumis with the egg, and also with our satay. And that sambal tumis, was pure magic. Run by Elizabeth Pospa and her husband, K.R. Banana Leaf Masala Chicken & Nasi Lemak also sells nasi lemak in the mornings. The stall is closed on weekends and Mondays, so we're definitely coming back to eat that nasi lemak. That "sedap sambal" is totally worth it. Mmmmm.