Prata Cafe, Evans Road

This place (26 Evans Road, 6333-6979, with another location at 320 Clementi) was rather disappointing, especially compared to some of the other recent places. Open until midnight (2 AM on weekends) and full of crowds, it seemed like it had the right makings of a good prata shop. Alas, it was not. The cheese prata lacked any hint of cheese taste (almost to the point that we forgot that it was cheese prata). The egg and onion prata was a tad better, but nothing to boast about.



The murtabak (a bit like an Indian calzone - or stuffed prata in this case) was also a bit boring - not crispy and the ground mutton filling was not tasty either. They ran out of the thosai as well as tissue prata. And the teh halia was very weak. Ugh.



The only thing really worth writing about was the kambing mutton soup, which proved to be quite thick and rich. It was not as spicy as I would like, but it was still pretty good. To be fair, the curry dip for the prata was pretty good with an interesting sour twist. But the prata itself came nowhere close to being a fair companion.

It's funny that the restaurant had this little paper sign hanging on the wall that said, "All food is freshly prepared, please be patient. The taste is remembered long after the wait is forgotten." And they are right. I won't forget about how lackluster the taste is here.