Review: This family-run Dublin restaurant serves authentic, delicious dishes - and it’s suitable for vegetarians
Afanti is a family restaurant, run by sisters Elnur and Halnur Halmurat with considerable help from their mother Dilana, who arrives early each morning to make the hand-pulled noodles. As we head towards our table, we pass diners slurping belt noodles, chewy flat noodles that rise out of a seemingly endless pile in a gigantic steaming bowl of the renowned big plate chicken.
Spicy bean jelly is the dish that gets my attention. It sounds like it could have the refreshing shuang texture, which Dunlop talks about, and sure enough, our waitress explains that it is slippery and cool and is particularly good to eat alongside the lamb skewers . We might be better with a spoon to eat it she suggests, but what would be the fun in that? The challenge of eating the opaque white strips of mung bean jelly is too much to resist, even though we haven’t a hope of succeeding.
We have taken the precaution of ordering just a few things to start out, wary that everything might land together. The beef manti , takes 25 minutes to prepare, we are told, so that order goes into the kitchen first. Glasses of draught Asahi and Tiger beer keep us well refreshed as we wait for our next bite, two clay-oven-cooked samsas . Dusted with white sesame seeds, the exterior of flaky pastry is filled with chopped beef, onions and peppers, and has a delicious beef pie flavour.
Contrary to what you may think, handmade dumplings are not a given in Asian restaurants — there are plenty available in the frozen section of Asian food shops — but that 25-minute wait for the steamed pitir-manti guarantees that here they are made to order. Crimped into tiny packages, the beef and onion filling oozes to form its own soup. Do be careful not to scald yourself.
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