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• Delicious healthy Indian food in Bangkok

Sua­nanda is an Ayurvedic well­ness cen­ter with a lovely café, a yoga and med­i­ta­tion hall host­ing var­i­ous classes and work­shops, a small shop and an Ayurvedic con­sul­ta­tion cen­ter offer­ing med­ical treat­ments, ther­a­pies and mas­sage such as shi­rod­hara (pour­ing of oil on the fore­head). The food at the cafe is whole­some and pre­pared with care and any­thing can be made vegan. Unlike the Indian food I am used to where things gen­er­ally swim in a pool of oil, every­thing at Sua­nanda is fresh, light and healthy. Every­thing is pre­pared with organic ingre­di­ents and will leave you feel­ing light and ener­gized thanks to the cook­ing that is based on Ayurvedic prin­ci­ples, using the right com­bi­na­tion of food and spices to aid diges­tion. You can pick from one of the daily grains on offer (quinoa, rye, bar­ley, cracked wheat, cracked oat or ama­ranth) which can be sub­sti­tuted to the organic rice. The poha (flat­tened rice) with nuts and veg­eta­bles was a lit­tle like fried rice, except it was light, fluffy and not greasy at all — the tex­ture of the flat­tened rice grains reminded me a lit­tle of fresh coconut and the fla­vors were spot on — I love cumin. The morn­ing glory frit­ters were sur­pris­ingly really light and a very inven­tive – and espe­cially tasty — use of my beloved morn­ing glory. The accom­pa­ny­ing dip­ping sauces were great – the minty one packs a punch! The sprouted fin­ger mil­let crepe stuffed with spinach (ask for no cheese) was a great vari­a­tion on the tra­di­tional South Indian dosa; I found the mouth­feel actu­ally nicer than a tra­di­tional dosa: fluffy and chewy, a lit­tle like an actual crepe. I’m assum­ing the taste is bet­ter with the cheese, but I really enjoyed this nonethe­less. Same goes for the beet­root paran­thas: it’s a sim­ple, fresh and well exe­cuted dish that is not oily at all. The beet­root is still very crunchy, the tex­ture is spot on and the accom­pa­ny­ing minty sauce is lovely. The prices at Sua­nanda are very rea­son­able. Make sure you sit out back in the lovely gar­den. A really nice take on Indian food. Photos and more at http://mostlyamelie.com/15-vegan-restaurants-to-try-in-bangkok/