1 00:00:00,00 --> 00:00:05,700 Hello everyone. I am Sriranjani from your pink nomad channel. The place we are today is 2 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:10,600 Ethiopia. We are in an Indian restaurant in Ethiopia. 3 00:00:10,700 --> 00:00:15,500 The name of this restaurant is Sangam. 4 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:20,400 They have come here from our hometown and are successfully running this restaurant. 5 00:00:20,500 --> 00:00:25,300 I will tell you all the information and we will meet that person too 6 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:30,200 and we'll also taste how the food is here. See, this is outside of the place. 7 00:00:30,300 --> 00:00:35,100 You can see the entrance of the gate. 8 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:40,000 From here the seating starts. They have many Indian starters here. 9 00:00:40,100 --> 00:00:44,900 10 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:49,800 11 00:00:49,900 --> 00:00:54,700 12 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:59,600 We are in the Sangam restaurant, which is run by a Tamilian, since 1973. 13 00:00:59,700 --> 00:01:04,500 Since then the restaurant has been here 14 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:09,400 You can find most Tamilian dishes here in this hotel. 15 00:01:09,500 --> 00:01:14,300 including the meals, they have everything here. 16 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:19,200 This restaurant also has a bar attached. We can get whatever we want. 17 00:01:19,300 --> 00:01:24,100 What do you want to try today? 18 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:29,000 19 00:01:29,100 --> 00:01:33,900 My favorite is the biriyani always. 20 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:38,800 This place is suggested by Uma Shankar. I have known him in Uganda. 21 00:01:38,900 --> 00:01:43,700 I haven't shown him in the video. He told me not to show him. He's doing business there. 22 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:48,600 He gave me the contact of this place. The menu here is interesting. They don't have idli and dosas. 23 00:01:48,700 --> 00:01:53,500 maybe because of the climate. They couldn't prepare the batter and all. 24 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:58,400 They have biryani, thalis and many more. 25 00:01:58,500 --> 00:02:03,300 This restaurant is a wine and dine. They have many fish varieties in the dishes. 26 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:08,200 They also have vegetarian options. Dhal and mattar paneer. 27 00:02:08,300 --> 00:02:13,100 Everything is below 200. The cost is in the range of 150. 28 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:18,000 Everything is below 500 29 00:02:18,100 --> 00:02:22,900 and nothing is above that price range. So the price is reasonable. 30 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:27,800 It is in Ethiopia. The rate is the same even when we biryani in our country. 31 00:02:27,900 --> 00:02:32,700 They have small and large options. Small is about 100 and chicken biryani full is 32 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:37,600 160. In Ethiopia, chicken is a little costly. It would come around 400 rupees. 33 00:02:37,700 --> 00:02:42,500 It is more than one kg in our country. So you can eat mutton at a very cheap rate here. 34 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:47,400 Mutton mughal biryani is 185 35 00:02:47,500 --> 00:02:52,300 around 300 in Indian rupees. This one is a large quantity. If you want small, then it is 100 36 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:57,200 It would come around 200 indian rupees. 37 00:02:57,300 --> 00:03:02,100 In many other countries, Indian restaurants will be costly but here it is reasonable. 38 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:07,000 If you come to Ethiopia, come try this restaurant. It is nearby the airport. 39 00:03:07,100 --> 00:03:11,900 Near airport in the main boley road, you can find this place. 40 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:16,800 You can ask anyone or look in the google maps. 41 00:03:16,900 --> 00:03:21,700 We have ordered chicken mughal biryani, a non veg thali and one lemon rice 42 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:26,600 a butter chicken and chicken 65. 43 00:03:26,700 --> 00:03:31,500 They told it is very popular here. 44 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:36,400 We'll see whether it has our traditional taste or it is different. 45 00:03:36,500 --> 00:03:41,300 Our dishes has come. We have ordered different things like butter chicken, 65, 46 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:46,200 butter naan, paneer, mughal biryani, and 47 00:03:46,300 --> 00:03:51,100 thali, mutton curry and other items 48 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:56,000 this is chicken 65 49 00:03:56,100 --> 00:04:00,900 This is the lemon rice 50 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:05,800 It has the most reviews so we ordered this one too 51 00:04:05,900 --> 00:04:10,700 We also got garlic naan 52 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:15,600 chicken butter masala 53 00:04:15,700 --> 00:04:20,500 it's just like how it would be in our place. 54 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:25,400 Everything is perfect except there is no lemon in the chicken 65. 55 00:04:25,500 --> 00:04:30,300 This thali has potato, beetroot, chicken roast, 56 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:35,200 tikka, rice and mutton gravy. 57 00:04:35,300 --> 00:04:40,100 They have given us these. 58 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:45,000 We are going to eat now. Will tell you how the taste is. 59 00:04:45,100 --> 00:04:49,900 It is so tempting to look at. 60 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:54,800 It just looks like our south Indian food. 61 00:04:54,900 --> 00:04:59,700 The naan and chicken butter masala now. 62 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:04,600 63 00:05:04,700 --> 00:05:09,500 64 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:14,400 This is little bit different. 65 00:05:14,500 --> 00:05:19,300 The masala flavour is much. I can't taste the butter much. 66 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:24,200 I am tasting this now. 67 00:05:24,300 --> 00:05:29,100 Mughal biryani is good 68 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:34,000 there are a lot of spices in here. 69 00:05:34,100 --> 00:05:38,900 I can taste different spices in this. 70 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:43,800 The butter masala taste also differs everywhere according to the ingredients. 71 00:05:43,900 --> 00:05:48,700 The colour and cooking pattern differs. 72 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:53,600 The taste of the food differs according to the water they use. 73 00:05:53,700 --> 00:05:58,500 I am tasting lemon rice now. 74 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:03,400 75 00:06:03,500 --> 00:06:08,300 It is perfect. 76 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:13,200 77 00:06:13,300 --> 00:06:18,100 They have added onions, peanuts, corriander 78 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:23,000 and the flavour of the lemon is very nice. 79 00:06:23,100 --> 00:06:27,900 80 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:32,800 The chicken 65 is very amazing. It's been two months since I have eaten this. 81 00:06:32,900 --> 00:06:37,700 But I haven't tastes anything as amazing as this one 82 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:42,600 If anyone missing Indian food or chicken 65 83 00:06:42,700 --> 00:06:47,500 this one would truly be amazing 84 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:52,400 85 00:06:52,500 --> 00:06:57,300 86 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:02,200 Rice and mutton curry. 87 00:07:02,300 --> 00:07:07,100 88 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:12,000 Welcome sir. Very happy to meet you in Ethiopia here. 89 00:07:12,100 --> 00:07:16,900 I have seen that you have established your restaurant since 1973 90 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:21,800 Who came here with this idea first? 91 00:07:21,900 --> 00:07:26,700 Can you give us a small intro? 92 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:31,600 My uncle had it. He is not with us now. 93 00:07:31,700 --> 00:07:36,500 He was a charted accountant by profession. 94 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:41,400 and my father was a chef. He was working in Savera hotel. 95 00:07:41,500 --> 00:07:46,300 In chennai, so he came here as a 96 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:51,200 auditor and during that time when he saw the restaurant 97 00:07:51,300 --> 00:07:56,100 everything was here like italian, 98 00:07:56,200 --> 00:08:01,000 chinese cuisine but they didn't have any Indian restaurant. 99 00:08:01,100 --> 00:08:05,900 So, after that proposal, there was a princess named tannaine work 100 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:10,800 101 00:08:10,900 --> 00:08:15,700 she gave us her guest house to open the Indian restaurant. 102 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:20,600 So, where did you have the first restaurant. It was in the boley road. 103 00:08:20,700 --> 00:08:25,500 Back then the main city was 104 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:30,400 the old airport. Boley road became important after the 105 00:08:30,500 --> 00:08:35,300 airport was built. 106 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:40,200 It developed there after. How long has it been since you came here? 107 00:08:40,300 --> 00:08:45,100 I have been born and brought up here. 108 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:50,000 My father came here when he was 15 and so did my mother. 109 00:08:50,100 --> 00:08:54,900 I have been here all my life. 110 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:59,800 What were the difficulties you had to face in the beginning? 111 00:08:59,900 --> 00:09:04,700 Ethiopian and Indian food are little similar. 75 percent of the spice 112 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:09,600 is available here. They are similar. 113 00:09:09,700 --> 00:09:14,500 The things we use like urad dhal are hard to find. 114 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:19,400 We need to import from India. And mainly we saw there was no Idli and dosa in the menu 115 00:09:19,500 --> 00:09:24,300 It was because of the urad dhal and the people here mostly don't eat idli and dosa. 116 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:29,200 They eat something similar thing. 117 00:09:29,300 --> 00:09:34,100 There isn't much demand for it. What is the favorite dish of your restaurant? 118 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:39,000 Something which is very special. There are three categories. 119 00:09:39,100 --> 00:09:43,900 Mutton, chicken and vegetarian 120 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:48,800 In vegetarian, it is tomato chutney, 121 00:09:48,900 --> 00:09:53,700 navratan corma, matar paneer kofta. There are top class. 122 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:58,600 In chicken, we have special barbeque items, like tandori 123 00:09:58,700 --> 00:10:03,500 tikka, butter chicken and chicken biryani are very famous. 124 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:08,400 In mutton, mutton biryani, bhuna masala, mutton curry 125 00:10:08,500 --> 00:10:13,300 mutton dopyaza are very famous. 126 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:18,200 Say something short and sweet about your restaurant. It is in the name itself. Sangam is the meeting place. 127 00:10:18,300 --> 00:10:23,100 Everyone comes and meet here. Indians, Ethiopians, business people 128 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:28,000 129 00:10:28,100 --> 00:10:32,900 They have deals here 130 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:37,800 We have done higher options as well, for example 131 00:10:37,900 --> 00:10:42,700 The former president pranab mukerjee 132 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:47,600 came here from India 133 00:10:47,700 --> 00:10:52,500 Raj nath singh our defense minister has also come here 134 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:57,400 UN amabassador thirumoorthy from India 135 00:10:57,500 --> 00:11:02,300 has also come here. So a last question, 136 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:07,200 What do you want to tell our Indian Tamil people? 137 00:11:07,300 --> 00:11:12,100 Please come here, we will take care of you here 138 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:17,000 Thank you so much. We have taken a mini interview of him now 139 00:11:17,100 --> 00:11:21,900 It was so interesting. We have finished our lunch and the food was so amazing. 140 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:26,800 It was like we ate in India. 141 00:11:26,900 --> 00:11:31,700 Price details, his contact and hotel information and all will be given in the description. 142 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:36,600 You can contact him directly too. 143 00:11:36,700 --> 00:11:41,500 If you can come to Ethiopia, you can also meet him. He will take care of all that. 144 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:43,900 Stay tuned. Bye.