Tasty Food at Besant Nagar

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My roommate is a foodie and she had suggested few dishes to checkout at Besant Nagar .
This blog is about the journey to Besant Nagar for sea food and Ice-cream.

It was a Friday in June when my roommate returned all happy and excited having had a new sea food supposedly available only at Besant Nagar. She could not sleep at night and was googling to show me the image of it. It was way past 1 am and we were still searching for 'Lilly Poochi' it had been more than an hour .Finally we decided that google's database was missing something important. It had the taste of prawns enclosed within a crab shell . Finally through watsapp we found that the name was 'Elli Poochi' instead of Lilly Poochi. 

'Elli Poochi' is the tamil name for Sand crab which is cooked and sold mostly at Besant Nagar beach. 
She had also mentioned about a Thai plate ice-cream. I remember seeing videos of it in facebook. It was now 3 am and she had created a temptation for me . So as soon as I got up, I called up all my friends who were available at OMR to visit Besant Nagar. Finally one friend said yes and was willing to check out the Thai ice-cream.

We drove down in the scorching evening heat to Besant Nagar. It has been few months since I visited this place and getting a parking spot is difficult. Then the search began for the thai ice-cream place . All we could see was kulfi , gola sellers but we could not find the plate ice-cream. We were looking around when a fruit seller mentioned that it is opposite the ATM.

We finally found the plate ice-cream which is named as Kottu Ice-cream.We ordered one Belgium chocolate with chocolate sauce and kitkat toppings. It took around 10 minutes to make from milk on an iced plate.It was very tasty and melted fast due to the heat.

Belgium Chocolate Ice-cream

We later tasted schezwan shawarma at a stall opposite to the Ice-cream stall.It was very spicy comparatively to the bland shawarma found in most shops. As planned we then went to search for elli poochi at the local fish stalls.Where we had a huge piece of vanjaram fish fry , prawns and elli poochi.
I liked the fish fry as it was very spicy but elli poochi tasted like sweet prawns and was tiny.It was lovely trying a new sea food for the first time .  

Spicy Vanjaram fish fry

Elli Poochi
                                                     
Catla fish
                                 
I hope everyone who is new to chennai or looking for elli poochi like me would find this blog interesting .

Location: Besant Nagar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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