We brought our own Banana Leaf to a restaurant in America
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- Опубликовано: 13 апр 2023
- Logesh grew up loving Malaysian banana leaf rice meal or Indian thali. Since we couldn't find it in any Indian restaurants in USA, we decided to bring our own banana leaf to re-create this amazing meal at a local restaurant.
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Can someone please open up a Banana Leaf restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area?! We will be your #1 customer!!
Annachikadai in Mountain View has banana leaf meals (or at least used to)
Ask bananabro to open one! They already had one in Perth. Takpun u lah collab dengan dorang buka branch kt US 😂
Why don't just u start open up the banana leaf restaurant there 😊
You can find fresh banana leaves from Mexican grocery shops.And we do have banana leaf rice meals in south India and thali meals towards the north. many Indian restuarants inthe US serve both and tends to go the North Indian way and hence banana leaf rice meals are rare. I suggest you try the meals during Onam or pongal and they might have,.
12:43 "Life with children" - Exactly!!! And yours the better ones, at least they are well behaved... 😊
Definitely fold inwards, to indicate that was a delicious meal. ;) The banana leaf plating tradition did come from India alright. Had egg dosa and masala tea this morning myself. Happy Puthandu to the Tamil Hindus, Happy Vishu to the Malayalee Hindus and Blessed Vaisakhi to all the Sikhs!
Yes happy vishu
No my friend , there is a certain order in which d food is served. The guest of honor is always given the last portion of the leaf. U fold it inqards to say u want to continue your relationship and the list of dos and don'ts goes on. And the taste of hot food served on a banana leaf is ........ ....
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Absolutely amazing
Banana leaf meals are still popular in Tamil Nadu, India, and you can even have biriyani served in it...
Same in tirupati
Yeah . Bt ppl in south India are still early men, couldn't get to know how to use knife and fork.
@@lokeshpratapsingh3527yes i eat everyday in banana leaf so i did not learn how to eat in fork and i havent seen any fork or spoon in my village...all the villagers use banana leaf to eat lunch
@@sudharsanyessian8210 ooh poor boy. I pity you!
So is in Bangalore...
I just love the embarrassment on Rachel’s face throughout this video 😂 you should guys make more videos like this where you put each other on the spot 😅
Hi guys. Banana leaf meals are from South India. I believe the green thingy is thoviyal/chutney and the crackers could be rice crackers which are also eaten with rice meals.
Banana leaves are one of a kind! It brings a certain flavor to the food! You are making me miss Malaysia! Great video and hope the family is doing well 😁
Oh wow! See you guys eating the Indian American version of banana leaf rice meal makes some people crave for it. Really surprised at how much Kyren had grown up and can reply everytime daddy talks to him. I love it when he said that the coconut chat is spicy...sooo cute. Love to see more of the boys in the next videos.
In Sri Lanka also we are using banana leaf for wrapping rice, It makes the rice taste good and smell as well. Also it is 100% natural.
Filipinos use banana leaf for their famous Kamayan feast where they eat with their hands and layout a long tables worth of delicious food. So awesome of you guys to go all out on the banana leaf thing!
No papadam is a real probablam man!
Banana leaf meal is very common in India(Tamilnadu, Kerala,Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka) and not just for rice meal even for just breakfast or any other meals. The taste is definitely different when eaten from a banana leaf since when hot food is served on a banana leaf it tends to change colour and even add flavour.
Folding the banana leaf- my understanding is that its based on the occasion. Its folded inwards when its a happy occasion say a wedding meaning let good ness come to you vs fold outwards say in a funeral meaning let the grief go away from you.
I am a South Indian who lives in Mumbai, Maharashtra and yes there are eating places in Bombay that serve food on a banana leaf. You guys must try other Indian food too other than South Indian food like Gujarati food , Maharashtrian food basically food from other states of India.
Banana leaf meals are everywhere in Kerala, Tamilnadu, Karntaka, Andhra and Sri Lanka. It's also available in Dubai/UAE and other Gulf countries in south Indian restaurants. Philipino also use Banana leaf meals. Kamayan is a traditional Filipino feast, food is prepared and arranged along banana leaves for a group to eat entirely by hand. Banana leaf meals served all year around in Tamil , Andhra and Kerala restaurants. During Vishu festival of kerala it's called sadhya but sadhya is all vegetarian.
You are living my dream kumar family. We did this in Hawaii where we found some banana leaves and cooked our own food in the resort and ate in those leaves. The food has to be hot to experience the flavors of the leaf to the food. Enjoyed watching your video. ❤️🥰 stay blessed and hope to see more of your adventures 🙏
That's really very challenging for Rachel but you guys really made it. 👍👍👍. Tamil Puthandu Vazthukal to Kumar and family
Really nice you guys enjoyed the 'yela sapadu' - leaf meal - so much. Nice to see your kids again. They are so wonderful. But somewhat sad to see you had to make do with the frozen and thawed leaves that were available - looked ancient and dried off, darkened and curled at the edges. In India we are blessed to eat on fresh green leaves. But you guys enjoyed eating on the leaves nonetheless, and that's what counts! Love to see Rachel enjoying it! And yes, the leaf is usually folded inwards and you guys did it beautifully straight into a bag. Neat! I think one of the reasons it's folded inward is to show respect to the person sitting opposite you, so as to close the used leaf away from them (table manners). The menu was mouth watering! Finally, thanks to Bezawada for being so sportive. Love your videos! Mikka Nandri!
Logesh
Rachel
Terima kasih atas ucapan Ramadhan
‘screw it’
Luv ur spontaneous bubbliness😂
Take care
Be well
Daniel (Johor Bahru)
It is always heart warming to watch Kumaar Family sharing beautiful moments of life with us.
In Trinidad it is customary to serve food on banana leaves at Hindu weddings and religious events. We also use banana leaves to wrap our traditional meat pastelles at Christmas.
Rachel did fold it right way, this means you wish to have this meal again and again.
If you fold the other way you don't want to eat such meals again this is when someone dies and you eat at their place..
She is soooo understanding .. and kind ❤
best Indian food I ever had was served on banana leaf in Singapore... Banana Leaf Apollo in Little India there.
Kudos to Rachel for overcoming the embarrassing ask 😂 and yes, meals are served in banana leaves in the south of India. At my place we have a small banana tree and cut leaves from it to serve for all religions occassions. Like today, Tamil New Year (so great timing guys!) Thali is a term used for North Indian meals. In South India we just say meals and they're usually served on banana leaves!
Inwards it is! Good job Rachel. Folding the leaves inwards means you had a satisfying, happy meal. The opposite is for not so good occasions or to indicate you weren't happy I guess. Leave it to fellow Indians and Malays to corroborate.
நாக்கில் எச்சில் ஊறுது வாழையிலை சாப்பாடு பார்த்து ! வாழ்க! வளத்துடன் ! 😋😋
This was incredibly enjoyable, even it was vicarious. It was as though we had been on an adventure. Thank you!
God Bless you all and thank you for sharing your story and your beautiful family!
We are Parsis from India.all our wedding meals for all our guests are served on banana leaves! Always.
Eating on a banana leaf is a normal thing for Filipinos. We usually have what we call boodle fight where we put all of the food on top of the banana leaf and feast on it. We usually do this whenever we go to the beach.
I want you to b my brother as my real brother got completely westernised, and I miss him.the way u r proud to be asian and determined to keep the culture alive in the family and kids will b proud to b asian, i love the way u r not embarrassed.
Is it wrong to enjoy US culture in the US?
Hi Kumaar Family, in India we have meals served in banana leaves especially in South India and thali is North Indian style. We do have food served in banana leaves in weddings too. We too miss those in Chicago. Keep doing more videos.
Eating from a banana leaf is also popular in Trinidad (at least when I lived there ) at Indian weddings and Hindu prayers. I agree that the food is so good, especially when eaten with your fingers.
We didn't use banana leaf but something very similar.
I love Rachel! Wish I knew her in real life? What degrees did she get to become a special edu teacher? I want to become one too. I’m actual special needs myself. I’ve been diagnosed with ADHD and Autism.
Poor Rachel you gotta get use to this Asian trait 😂
Inward is correct Rachel. Kumar just testing you😂😂
Whether it's Indian food or Nasi Lemak, the banana leaf makes it taste better.
I know right... 😁
Definitely the flavour of the food changes. I am from Tamil Nadu and I eat mostly on a banana leaf. when you put rice and sambar over it and mix it well on the leaf, the pores of leaf has some fluids which secretes & mixes with our food and it gives a natural flavour which is good for health also.
And it is definitely not awkward to eat on a leaf, after all we eat other veggies too, so leaves are part of the eatables only. why not place food on it and eat.
Thali is mostly north indian & banana leaf meals are widely served in south indian restaurants.. Perhaps it's just very difficult to get fresh banana leafs there so the restaurants prefer to serve food on a thali plate.. Oh yes.. Definitely fold inwards if you like the food & plan to go back..
Way to commit and follow through. At least they embraced the banana leaf banana 🍌 🌿
I am from Vijayawada also called as Bezawada 4:26. The yellow dish beside the rasam is called "maggiga charu" made of butter milk, onions, chilly and little thadka.
As far as i know thali is in north India and Banana leaf meaks are in South India..
In South India, resturant,home festival, wedding any gathering " it's banana leaf meals". Some restaurant serve everything in banana leaf.
Yes ,its right to fold inwards, whenever ur happy with the meal and want to do it again 'fold it inwards ' , like in wedding and festivals
In kerala (one of the states in india) we have banana leaf rice, that is called sadhya…..not thalii
We have food in banana leaf
It is not a bigshot
I think, You got the banana leafs because of vishu
Vishu is festival in kerala
All keralites would like to celebrate vishu
Vishu is on 15th april❤️
Yes..we do ve meals served in Banana leaf... South of India..thats an very important part of tradition .. n yes food tastes better in a banana leaf than a thali 🙂🙂
Nice! Totally agree on banana leaf and eating with hand makes food taste so much better -- banana leaf might be the experience, and eating with hand I think might be that it mixes the food/combines the flavors better than with fork/spoon. If you're looking for banana leaf meals, then some other cultures also have meals usually wrapped in banana leaf. Search for "Pothichoru" for Kerela meal, or "Lamprias" or "Lumprice" for Sri Lankan meal. In the East Bay area, there seems to be Kadupul Sri Lankan restaurant thaat serves lamprias in banana leaf (I'm not from the area and this is just a quick Google search). Enjoyed the video.
Ok so far this is hilarious! Laughing my head off while watching! 😅
You guys are just awesome ❤
I love banana leaf rice!!!!❤
Food definitely tastes different (and better!) on a banana leaf! Hands down, you cannot fight me on this. And eating it with your fingers is icing on the cake (or curry on my rice :D )
Banana leaf meal is very much a thing in southern part of India :)
Every Hindu wedding has atleast one meal served on a banana leaf.
I loved watching this video 😅
Also you fold inwards if it’s a happy occasion and fold outwards if it’s a funeral of sorts.
You guys did great 😊
Yay... Kumaar is back chilling with us! 🎉❤
We missed vlogging so much!
Loved this vlog..I will love to have a lunch like this with you on banana leaf ..I wish I will meet you one day..Love you All❤❤❤❤
It’s called Boodle fight in the Philippines. There’s got to be some Filipino restaurant that serve it there in the Bay Area.
This is so good! I’m in Airlie Queensland Australia. We can’t even get Indian food here let alone what you guys are having. So good to see this… keep up the good work Kumaar Fam
The name of restaurant is bezawada, which happens to be a city in the state of andhra pradesh, in south India.
So, no problem with banana leaf since it's our tradition. But, I wonder how it was similar to Malaysian restaurant 😅
we have the largest Tamil community outside India, even malay here are mix with India muslim
Great thought....eating on a banana leaf. It is so nice of the restaurant owner to allow this.
Yes ofcourse come to South India we have it here in a lot of restaurants Meal served in banana leaf.. loved the video, you guys are brave!! 😊❤❤ But it's very disheartening to see even the banana leaves are frozen. We grow it in our garden and have the luxury of having a fresh banana leaf meal, even if we buy it from the local Market it's fresh . @ Rachel's instincts are awesome in regards to how to fold the leaf 🤟😊 that's absolutely right. lastly, love your car. ❤
Eating on a banana leaf is popular in India. Not just restaurants but also traditional weddings and temples. Loved the vlog❤
Lovely people. Keep going..
Yes most of the India like to eat on banana leaf specially in South India
Love this love this love this!
Very nice to watch all this vedio tq.👌👌
Yes, in southern part of India, authentic South Indian restaurant or small cafes serves in banana leaves
Oh, you are being hesitant for no reason.
The name of the restaurant itself suggests that it is a Telugu person's restaurant. That's Andhra and Telangana states in South India. It is common to eat in Banana leaves in our cultures, not at restaurants though 😅. It is more reserved for festivals, ceremonies and religious functions these days.
For anyone interested, the name of the restaurant is the old name of a city on the south coast of Andhra Pradesh. The current name of the city is Vijayawada.
This video is beautiful. From Tamil Nadu ( I was in the UK and Canada 20 years back) .... nevertheless, folding the banana leaf outwards is done in death/condolence-based circumstances. Folding inwards, means, I like it and will be back again.
When hot food is place on a banana leaf, a certain different flavour arises from the food, (for North Americans/Europeans/and from those down under, they can corelate it to smoked or barbecued food things). Thanks for sharing this video. I enjoyed it
No kick without some mor milagai 😋 That's my favourite🥰
We ate banana leaf curry many times in KL when we lived there! Now I miss Malaysian food cause we live in Bay Area now😂
I am Filipina , live in Philippines you how say salamat it's means thank you , I am new subscribe from Philippines ❤❤❤
Kumar's - Trirupathi Bhimas in Milpitas are serving the Tamil New Year lunch on the Banana Leaf on April 15th.
I'm from Bezawada, India. ❤
Great video! , The real reason to fold the banana leaf inwards is to help the cleaner on the opposite side pick up leftovers without spilling. especially in south indian wedding ( in rushy situation )
Of cours in India there are banana rice meals, it's so traditional in Indian wedding, for the convenience people are shifting to plates now a days.
Happy 500,000 Kumaar Family. Just 1/2 way away from 1 million Malaysians. Haha.
Yes they do have banana leaf meals in indian. I had it when I went as a child it's fun.
Yes,we have banana leaf rice meals in many restaurants in India💯❤️
Banana leaf meals are popular across South India I would say. And Rachel, food tastes better on a banana leaf and if it is heaten with your hands :)
In india they serve in banan leaf, so the Thali is served in that way. In some places they use plates. In Malaysia its same, since we can get banana leave with ease its not a issue at all.
Aku suka semangat kumar,jangan malu untuk melakukan seperti yang di rancangkan,semangat kumar untuk makan atas daun pisang aku kagum,malu biar kena pada tempat, salute sama u kumar🙋👍
You got this mama! Nyum nyummy
Banana Leaf rice meals had been integral part of how South Indians eat in a normal day to day life even now. it dates back even to even before Chola dynasty. Chola's conquests included Sri Lanka, Maldives, Malaysia, Southern Thailand and Indonesia in South East.
Fast forward to previous and current decade, restaurants modified it to offer it as thali in different forms. Originally its the same.
Not malaysian, but as a sinkie from sinkapura, eh neh, u make me drool on my MacBook sia!
Banana leaf meal very common in Kerala and other south Indian areas. Especially during our festivals like onam and vishu....
Yes Rachel!!!! It tastes soooo much better on banana leaf!!!!
Fresh!!!
S. In taminadu, India we have rice meal in restaurants in banana leaf.
The good part is banana leaf has the tendency to cool the hot rice and side dishes/ curry and provides the right hot, we eaters want to have.
Eating ven pongal with chutneys and sambar is the ultimate stuff in earth .
Vlog more often as much as u can would really appreciate it ❤️ from India
Yes we do have banana leaf meals esp in South India.
Banana leaf meals or Thali is very common all over South India. People still love eating on them.
thalli literally means plate in many indian languages banana leaf is common in southern india.
9:43, mystery, chatni. I guess with tamrind and coconut and pea nuts.
You guys are awesome.
@kumaarfamily Yes…they do have banana leaf Thalis in India…especially down south! As a matter of fact some restaurants in Kerala serves everything on banana leaf and when I travel to India to my ancestral house we only use banana leave instead of plates…😋😋😋
In Venezuela we hve a dish called ayaca made out of cornmeal dough filled with meat, pork or chicken and veggies and wrapped and tied in banana leaves and and then boiled. It's served during the Xmas season and eaten from the babana leaves. The banan leaves give it its special flavor and taste, absolutely delicious :-)
Banana leaf meals are very popular for occasions and feasting due to easy maintenance and zero wastage....
The yellow curry in the thali is made with curd or butter milk and cooked with veggies and it's called Majjige huli in Kannada
You Logesh are a bit of a crazy guy.
That was EPIC!
There are some Indian stores in the Bay area specifically near San Jose which sell fresh banana leaves, at least during Indian festivals. I got some last time and it was amazing to eat on them
Kyky da besaq da weh. Cepat betul
It is especially in South India where you find meals with Banana leaf
Also please try to visit deevan street in Chicago and try Kerala rice dishes and Tamil Nadu rice dishes in South Indian restaurants. Your family will really like the food.
11:19. A commercialized variation of papad.
Fryums tudum, that's how the add comes in TV.
Cool... interesting.