Remarkable food voyage with Unique blend of Sea Food & Tribal Cuisine

The two loves of my life Food and Book are interconnected. Many books give me the idea on many foods, information on food habits...

The two loves of my life Food and Book are interconnected. Many books give me the idea on many foods, information on food habits of in and outside India. Sometimes I amazed that “ohh, that can be a food or food can be prepared in that way!!!! I try to read books on almost every topic. Ghost to Adventure, Detective stories to Comic stories, Food to Travel, Romantic novels to Mythology everything. My passion for books gives me the exposure to meet with Rabindranath Tagore, Satyajit Ray, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhay, Budhadeb Guha, Samaresh Majumdar, Nihar Ranjan Gupta, Rakin Bond, Amitava Ghosh, Amish Tripathi, Jim Corbett, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sankar, Devdutt Pattanaik, Robin Sharma, Rukma Dakshi, Lila Majumdar, Hoihnu Hauzel and others through their books. Two writers whose books inspired me to visit my last food joint ‘Santas Fantasea’ are Budhadeb Guha and Haihnu Hauzel. I came to know that a meal can be prepared in Bamboo from Budhadeb Guha’s Rijuda Samogro in my college days.  Book “The Essential North-East” by Hoihnu Hauzel makes me attracted about the cooking and food habit of North-East India.

We visited Santa’s Fantasea of Salt lake (BF-189, Sector-1, Salt Lake, Kolkata, West Bengal 700064) on 31.3.18. It was a cloudy evening, around 6.30pm my husband came to my office to pick me up for home. When I settled down in car he told me have dinner somewhere which is not our usual one. Then one name came to my mind was Santa’s Fantasea. Santa’s Fantasea is inimitable with its comfy ambience, affable staff, lip spanking Tribal and seafood offering in pocket friendly way. Santa’s Fantasea is an exclusive.

combination Tribal and Seafood. Dining are

a and Catalogue of food/ Menu of the Restaurant alienated into two sections which illustrate their specialties- Seafood and Tribal cuisine

Other than Chicken, Mutton they have huge verity in seafood section with Tuna, Mackerel, Octopus, squid, Prawn, Crab, King Fish. Glorious presents of Tribal delicacies from Sikkim, Magalaya, Orissa, Mizoram, Manipur, and Kerala can openly challenge the seafood cuisine. Both sections can put their patron in dilemma as “which one I choose”.

Bansa Pora Mutton/ Chicken, Jadoh, Black Pepper Squid, Bansa Pora Chicken,Ngatok,Jhupu Pishi's Mutton Delicacy, Tilhou (Onion) Kheer, Kukhura ko Masu, Arsa Chum, Voksa Meh, Smoked octopus are name of few popular offering of Santa’s Fantasea.

In starter we ordered Butter Garlic Fish. This is very gentle and soothing in test. For main course- Bansa Pora Mutton & Bansa Pora Chicken the signature dish of Santa’s Fantasea (Bone less Mutton/ Chicken marinated with their specialized ingredients and stuffed in Bamboo and cooked in Tandoor)   Bansa Pora Mutton was flawlessly tender, Juicy and delicious . Same can be said for
Bansa Pora Chicken except it is little bit dry but taste was heavenly. Along with Bansa Pora Mutton we ordered Jadoh a Megalayan Dish was a combination of red rice and Mutton boneless pieces fluke together with garlic pieces which gave a quantity of dazzling aroma. Each one- Bansa Pora Mutton and Jadoh was delightful in taste and the combination of both was match winner. Last but not least for dessert we had Mango Sorbet which was very good in test and Tilhou Kheer. I was a slight unconvinced about Tilhou Kheer dessertas it is made from onions but it proved me wrong and I loved it.

For home we packed Bansa Pora Chicken, Ngatok- A delicious dish with really soft fillet of fish, Jhupu Pishi's Mutton Delicacy, Red rice and the Kori gassi and Malaysian Rice. All were very incredibly in tasty.

Food can be an adventure when we want to explore new tastes and cultures. Indian cooks know spices.  An experienced cook know spices and  uses spices like a painter who uses colors that they have grown to be very comfortable with. Recipes are handed over from generation to generation and enhanced and modified & customized based on personal taste and available ingredients.  India is a large territory, with a lot of different types

of culture to draw on, many types of climates, languages which reflects in its food types and styles, and they all offer different kinds of awesomeness.

of culture to draw on, many types of climates, languages which reflects in its food types and styles, and they all offer different kinds of awesomeness.

In Santa’s Fantasea You eat with your eyes and nose before you eat with your mouth, and food is both fragrant, and colorful. This eatery provides a unique food experience that many people like us would remember for their entire lives.