Salt In Pepper Village Restaurant

Salt n Pepper Village Restaurant

Karachi Pakistan

Salt n Pepper Village Restaurant is one of the most famed buffet places in Karachi. It is situated on Beach Avenue in an area popularly known for decades as "Seaview".

The restaurant uses symbols of traditional local folk culture and Sindh's ethnic cultural heritage in its ambiance and decor.

This water mill is always running right outside the restaurant's entrance.

A lit-up bullock cart is also stationed here.

Nowadays, breakfast buffets are gaining popularity across the city's top restaurants.

 Salt n Pepper offers 3 buffets every day: lunch, hi tea and dinner. Breakfast/brunch is only offered on Sundays.

 The artifacts and other decoration pieces used add to the rural look of the restaurant.
Even the walls depict a rustic, mud-like appearance akin to those used to build mud huts in villages.

 Traditional terracotta urns and metal milk containers are on display. 

The waiting area in the main foyer. 

A model of the traditional hand-loom, perhaps?

 

 

There is a children's play area in one corner, with a lady attendant to supervise the little ones. A worthy investment indeed.

The serving area is completely separate from the dining hall. In peak hours, it is quite crowded. 

Pictured above is the desserts section, which offers: assorted sweetmeats (mithai), fruit-flavored mousse, kheer, kulfi-faluda, ice creams, halwa's, jelly, crème brulée (caramel pudding), cakes, and even candy floss!

This is the main entree area, which offers: kababs (chapli or seekh), chicken tikka boti, nihari, haleem, payay (with accompanying garnish), qorma, daal, Chinese rice, chow mien, Chinese chicken or beef curry, pulao, mutton or chicken karahi, deep-fried prawns or Lahori fish, fried batair, pakora's, assorted paratha's(mooli/aaloo/makai ki roti), two kinds of soup, saag, kata-kat, aaloo ki bhujia and puri's, whole lamb roast, mini pizza's, spring rolls, sandwiches, French fries, pasta,pani puri and chaat, and a complete salad bar with lots of seasonal fresh fruit.

The drinks menu.

Clockwise from top right: fried prawns, a chicken seekh kabab and a piece of lightly spiced lamb roast.

 

Deep fried batair. This is a small bird, fried whole as you can see, and the bones are very fine.

A small amount of nihari - buffets allow you to sample what you like in small portions.

Rich apple juice - Rs 130

On to the desserts. Clockwise from right: milk carrot pudding (gajraila), channay ki daal ka halwa, and carrot halwa.

Diet firni (rice-powder pudding).

Banana jelly.

Kulfi with thick khoya milk and faluda (not pictured)

A scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Hot towels are served at your table as you wrap up your meal. The waiters also serve warm wheat naans (flatbreads) at your table after you are seated.

A view of the restaurant at lunch time.

Parents of little kids usually need to sit near the play area.

The view of the sea from the huge glass windows is spectacular. It is of course one of the main attractions of this seaside restaurant.

Verdict: It is no secret that Salt n Pepper is a great place to dine, especially for those people (mostly guys and middle-aged men) who have a large appetite. I almost always see several large groups of ....ahem....older, "burly" men dining here. But its true that the food is great

Onions For Health

ONIONS! I had never heard this!!!
PLEASE READ TO THE END: IMPORTANT
... In 1919 when the flu killed 40 million people there was this Doctor that visited the many farmers to see if he could help them combat the flu...
Many of the farmers and their families had contracted it and many died.

The doctor came upon this one farmer and to his surprise, everyone was very healthy. When the doctor asked what the farmer was doing that was different the wife replied that she had placed an unpeeled onion in a dish in the rooms of the home, (probably only two rooms back then). The doctor couldn't believe it and asked if he could have one of the onions and place it under the microscope. She gave him one and when he did this, he did find the flu virus in the onion. It obviously absorbed the bacteria, therefore, keeping the family healthy.

Now, I heard this story from my hairdresser. She said that several years ago, many of her employees were coming down with the flu, and so were many of her customers. The next year she placed several bowls with onions around in her shop. To her surprise, none of her staff got sick. It must work. Try it and see what happens. We did it last year and we never got the flu.

Now there is a P. S. to this for I sent it to a friend in Oregon who regularly contributes material to me on health issues. She replied with this most interesting experience about onions:

Thanks for the reminder. I don't know about the farmer's story...but, I do know that I contacted pneumonia, and, needless to say, I was very ill... I came across an article that said to cut both ends off an onion put it into an empty jar, and place the jar next to the sick patient at night. It said the onion would be black in the morning from the germs...sure enough it happened just like that...the onion was a mess and I began to feel better.

Another thing I read in the article was that onions and garlic placed around the room saved many from the black plague years ago. They have powerful antibacterial, antiseptic properties.

This is the other note. Lots of times when we have stomach problems we don't know what to blame. Maybe it's the onions that are to blame. Onions absorb bacteria is the reason they are so good at preventing us from getting colds and flu and is the very reason we shouldn't eat an onion that has been sitting for a time after it has been cut open.

LEFT OVER ONIONS ARE POISONOUS

I had the wonderful privilege of touring Mullins Food Products, Makers of mayonnaise. Questions about food poisoning came up, and I wanted to share what I learned from a chemist.

Ed, who was our tour guide, is a food chemistry whiz. During the tour, someone asked if we really needed to worry about mayonnaise. People are always worried that mayonnaise will spoil. Ed's answer will surprise you. Ed said that all commercially-made mayo is completely safe.

"It doesn't even have to be refrigerated. No harm in refrigerating it, but it's not really necessary." He explained that the pH in mayonnaise is set at a point that bacteria could not survive in that environment. He then talked about the summer picnic, with the bowl of potato salad sitting on the table, and how everyone blames the mayonnaise when someone gets sick.

Ed says that, when food poisoning is reported, the first thing the officials look for is when the 'victim' last ate ONIONS and where those onions came from (in the potato salad?). Ed says it's not the mayonnaise (as long as it's not homemade mayo) that spoils in the outdoors. It's probably the ONIONS, and if not the onions, it's the POTATOES.

He explained onions are a huge magnet for bacteria, especially uncooked onions. You should never plan to keep a portion of a sliced onion.. He says it's not even safe if you put it in a zip-lock bag and put it in your refrigerator.

It's already contaminated enough just by being cut open and out for a bit, that it can be a danger to you (and doubly watch out for those onions you put in your hotdogs at the baseball park!). Ed says if you take the leftover onion and cook it like crazy you'll probably be okay, but if you slice that leftover onion and put on your sandwich, you're asking for trouble. Both the onions and the moist potato in a potato salad, will attract and grow bacteria faster than any commercial mayonnaise will even begin to break down.

Also, dogs should never eat onions. Their stomachs cannot metabolize onions.

Please remember it is dangerous to cut an onion and try to use it to cook the next day, it becomes highly poisonous for even a single night and creates toxic bacteria which may cause adverse stomach infections because of excess bile secretions and even food poisoning.

Thanks Regards.............