While we have mamak restaurants at pretty much every commercial all throughout the country, it is surprisingly rare to see “proper” Indian restaurants that aren’t the typical mamak style. The difference is subtle, especially when it is a Southern Indian cuisine, but you can always spot the tell-tale sign that beef isn’t on the menu.
Update 2022: Unfortunately this place is now permanently closed
Exotic Curry House, at Little India, Klang
While exploring dinner option at Little India, Klang a few weeks ago, we somehow got into this small back lane by the name of Lorong Tingkat largely due to parking situation on the main road and chanced upon this busy little restaurant by the name of Exotic Curry House.
If an eatery is located in an unfavorable location and manage to attract steady stream of customers, experience tells me it will usually be good, so we went right in as the only non-Indian couple that night.
all hail to the mutton murtabak
Exotic curry house offers quite a good variety of chapati, roti, putu mayam, and many other traditional dishes (check the video below for a shot of their menu). I’m a big murtabak fan, so I got myself a mutton murtabak for dinner (RM 10).
Some 10 minutes or so later, the murtabak came, and boy was it a life changing sort of experience!
The roti was thin, meat was soft, succulent, and full of flavor, everything was perfect, and on top of that you get three different curry as condiments. It was just absolutely the best murtabak I’ve ever had in my life.
If you even remotely like murtabak or roti canai, you owe it to yourself to come to this place.
banana leaf rice available for lunch
We went back to Exotic Curry House again a week or so later during lunch time looking for a repeat experience, but unfortunately banana leaf was the only option during the afternoon hours so we had that instead.
It was a pretty good meal which ticks off the right boxes in terms of ingredients served, but I suppose the murtabak has set the expectation perhaps a bit too high. It was good, but not life changing.
Anyway, we’ll surely be back for more chaptai/murtabak. So happy we stopped by this place.
Address:
Exotic Curry House
39, Lorong Tingkat,
Kawasan 1,
41000 Klang, Selangor
GPS:Â 3.039962, 101.447853
Good grief!!! So much meat filling in the murtabak! The ones here, can hardly feel there is any at all. 🙁
suituapui: that’s unfortunate!
Wow, a murtabak that’s life changing huh! My spouse likes murtabak, not me. I thought murtabak is a breakfast food…kekeke….why only for dinner?! ^_~
eatwhateatwhere: yahh, I’d love to have it for breakfast too
KY, I always enjoyed all kind of curries out there. I try to make it also. Loved nann too. and learned to make at home and stuffed it tool
Vickie: you can make naan at home? that’s impressive!
ya ya hav to make at home since prezident trumpet banned all immigrant chefs into americaland #potus #alternativefacts
kekeke: shhh, they’re listening
ok ok #cia
I need to find this place!!
Chee: do it!
It’s been quite some time since I visited Little India. Thanks for the reminder. 😉
Monica: make it happen 😀
Wahh uncle working hard again searching for secret eats for us all. But careful not to follow patrons into quiet back lane otherwise they uncle is … hehehehehehehehhehe #foodie #murtabak #secreteats #hoik
kekeke: ok i’ll try, thanks! hahah.
Life changing murtabak experience, really make me wanna try it out!
Choi Yen: you should!
aiyorr must have uncle KY accompany pretti girl to come here because of small dark lorong #dangerouseats
kekeke: wah you overvaluing me.