Three Little Birds Bistro — Restaurant in Meghalaya

Old Review (10.09.2021)

A nice quaint and very cozy place to chill and have decent food. The owner is also very nice person.

New Review-

Pork Dosa - Rs. 130/- Fresh Lime Juice - Rs.60/-

Three Little Birds Bistro, Mawlai Phudmuri, Shillong

Chinese, South Indian & Naga

$

29.05.2025

Today I'm at @threelittlebirdsmawlai trying out their very interesting Pork Dosa. This is the third time that I've come here this year for this. The last two times that I came it was closed.

This is the same spot where Homely Hut Restaurant was located & I would often visit it more than a decade ago.

It was during COVID time when I saw a few South Indian young chaps dine here trying out the Pork Dosa & posting it on YouTube. I was intrigued ever since. Firstly since Dosa is my favourite vegetarian dish & these guys made it better by serving it with Pork. Being a tribal north eastern guy, Pork is Bae.

I remember I did come here once to try it about 4 years ago but they'd ran out of Pork & so I had the normal Masala Dosa. So it's been on my list ever since. This time I was hopeful that I would have more luck. I enquired as soon as I stepped inside this little cozy wooden cabin & was delighted when they said that they had it.

We took a step to the lower portion of the restaurant & though the ambience had a Relaxing Reggae vibe to it, the overall feel to the place was still homely. We reached at a time when the rain was pouring cats & dogs & so the restaurant was empty & we had the entire place to ourselves.

Apart from Pork Dosa, there were options for Chicken, Egg, Masala, Plain etc. My friend didn't want to risk it & ordered the normal Masala Dosa. I asked for a Fresh Lime Juice as well.

Anyway was my half a decade wait worth it? The order took 10mins. The dosa looked really good. It looked so much more better than what I had a few years ago. It was pretty big & thin. It came with a portion of minced pork, sambhar, tomato & coconut chutney. I took a bite of the dosa & it was crispy. Very nice. Proper Udupi style Dosa unlike the Chicken Curry Dosa from Potbelliez which is more like a Tamil/Malyali set dosa which uses its thickness to absorb the curry or like the Chicken Dry Dosa from Inside Out which is a decent Dosa but still not as crispy as this. My thoughts is that the thicker dosa is best with curries & the Udupi style Dosa works well with the drier meat items. The Pork was basically minced pork & it was cooked very well. It didn't have much spices but was seasoned very well. The pork meat itself did not have the skin so was not tough & rubbery. It was basically lean meat & some fat to give it more flavor. I could eat this pork with almost anything. The sambar was also very nice, and mind you I'm not a big fan of sambar but this I could tell was not from a packet & was cooked from scratch with carrots squash & other vegetables. The coconut chutney & tomato chutney were as good as any south Indian restaurant I've eaten in town. To me this combination resulted in something special, something I've not had in a while. Anyway I did try the potato masala from the Masala Dosa as well & it was also pretty good & authentic. And imagine I'm eating a proper meal sized non vegetarian dish for just 130 bucks. The Masala Dosa is also just 90. For you who consider pork too sanctified for a Dosa, well they do offer a Chicken Dosa as well for 10 bucks less. This dish to me is a very smart & well calculated move considering the number of priests from the Don Bosco Museum & from the church who are from South India & who obviously are not vegetarians. I finished my meal by gulping down

the salty-sweet fresh lemon juice. It was refreshing but I would have preferred a little less sugar. By the time we finished, the rain had stopped & the place was filled with customers, infact there were two groups who were already in que waiting for us to vacate our table. So this place is definitely very popular & I think it doesn't need foodbloggers like me, but then I just enjoy covering places such as these.

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