{"id":3328,"date":"2020-03-13T02:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonstonesamui.com\/?p=3328"},"modified":"2020-03-11T14:24:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T07:24:09","slug":"the-best-indian-food-on-samui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonstonesamui.com\/fr\/2020\/03\/13\/the-best-indian-food-on-samui\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Indian Food on Samui"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone, meet Babu\u2026\u2026Babu, meet everyone.  I love introducing one good friend to another and in this week\u2019s blog post it is my pleasure to make sure you, reader of Samui Unmasked and good friend of mine, meets Babu\u2026.the purveyor of the best Indian food on the island. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Okay, so I\u2019ve eaten the glorious curries that come from Babu\u2019s cauldrons of joy at least a dozen times before.\u00a0 But tonight was the first time I ever actually went into the restaurant itself.\u00a0 Every single time I\u2019d eaten this madness before it was delivered.\u00a0 And every single time it blew my mind and popped the taste-o-meter\u2019s top right off.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been coming to Samui every year for 25 years, as detailed in this post here,<\/a> and the best times were always the nights when my best friend Scott (a 15-year full-time Samui veteran) and I got our families together to enjoy a chill night at whatever villa I was staying at.\u00a0 Kids frolicking in the pool while the four us hung out and got caught up.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On those nights we felt like chilling at the villa so we ordered delivery, and Indian is one of those cuisines that travels real well.\u00a0 Introduced to me as \u2018the best Indian food he\u2019s had anywhere in the world\u2019 Scott would often grab his phone and with the ease and familiarity of calling a life-long friend, he\u2019d hang up and simply say \u2018It\u2019s on it\u2019s way.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anywhere between 30 and 75 minutes later (defined on Samui as \u2019soon come\u2019) a skinny moped driver would pull up and drop off what turned out to be not just the best Indian food I\u2019ve ever had on Samui but some of the best I\u2019ve ever had, period.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I loved the Lahore Tikka House in Toronto<\/a>, and adored the Zafron Pot on Venice Blvd when living in LA.<\/a>\u00a0 Babu\u2019s rivals both and the \u2018Babu Special Curry\u2019 now sits alone as the best Indian curry dish I have ever had in my life.\u00a0 The only thing that was odd was that their Naan bread felt and tasted more like a Roti.\u00a0 But year after year Scott emplored me to go to Babu\u2019s restaurant and I\u2019d discover that when the Naan comes out fresh it\u2019s just like the good ol\u2019 Naan I was used to.\u00a0 And year after year I was too lazy and into too many Heinekens to make that journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But tonight would be different!\u00a0 I had a rental car, the afternoon had been spent napping, I hadn\u2019t drank anything that day, and we were hungry.\u00a0 I pulled up Google Maps and followed directions and you can too, just click here<\/a>.\u00a0 We ended up in Maenam and found Babu\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Funnily enough, it was literally around the corner from the Hippo Gym.<\/a>\u00a0 This is a gym opened in Maenam by an old German friend of mine that I used to know back in the 90\u2019s when I was living in Korea.\u00a0 I\u2019ve stopped in here over the years but he was never on the island so if you\u2019re reading this Udo\u2026.how\u2019s it going eh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n