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Spicing up the menu

Pizza Hut is celebrating its tenth anniversary with Indian flavours

THIS IS INDIA! Check out the Great Indian Taste menu

The first Pizza Hut in the country opened on Cunningham Road in June 1996. Ten years and 123 restaurants in 32 cities later, birthday celebrations include Jaaved Jaffery on an elephant reprising his Crocodile Dundee character from Salaam Namaste exhorting one and all to try out The Great Indian Treat.

Four-course meal

Introducing Indian tastes to Mamma Mia Italian stuff is the best way wriggle your way into our happy hearts. So apart from the regular international menu, there is the Great Indian Treat menu that offers a four course meal — appetiser, starters, main course and dessert — in the flavours you have grown up with if you grew up in a certain part of India. We are a vast country revelling in much diversity, remember?

So you could start the meal with masala lemonade and then dig into appetisers like hara kebab lollies, veggie spin rolls, shammi kebab lollies, tandoori chicken spin rolls and murg satay (oooh! excuse me, but isn't satay from the Far East?)

For the main course there are pizzas like veggie taka tak, teekha paneer makhani, tandoori paneer chutneywala, and the peshawari channa paneer, which is a combination of chickpeas, paneer, onions, red paprika, coriander and mozzarella.

The non-veggies can dig into chicken tikka makhani, tandoori chicken chutneywala, malai seekh kebab and shahi shammi kebab. Tandoori chicken chutneywala is a happy combo of India and Uncle Sam with chutney flavoured tangy chicken, American corn, onions, red paprika and mozzarella.

The sweet side is represented with pista kulfi and mango ice-cream.

Combo offers

Available on delivery and take out, there are fun things like treat for two (two personal pizzas, a spin roll and chilli dip) for Rs. 225 (veg) and Rs. 275 (non-veg.) And if that is not Indian enough, there is a CD of Indian remixes with every delivery — if music be the food... and whatever else the dude from Stratford-upon-Avon said.

If you hate to wait, then you could play the interactive games. You could spin the Meal of Fortune and win instantly redeemable gift vouchers or you could play dice like Yudhishtira of yore but instead of losing a kingdom, you could win a complimentary meal voucher.

So let the games begin!

M.A.C

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