Thotrin Cafe, a small eatery that aside from your regular hakka noodles and burnt chilli fried rice, also serves North-Eastern delicacies
The seisa salad at Thotrin is a refreshing mix of smoked and shredded buff, cucumbers and hand-pound green beans and raja mircha.
Smoked seisa with aloo: This homely dish has a light, soup-like gravy featuring large and irregularly cut potatoes and chunky pieces of dry buff, flavoured with tons of chillies.
Smoked hoksa with Naga dal: Bursting with umami-goodness, this humble preparation has fatty pieces of pork cooked with spiced and flavoured kidney beans or rajma.
Fish gravy Manipuri style: Akin to a Bengali-style maccher jhol or fish curry, this Manipuri-style fish preparation comes with fried pieces of Rohu floating in a runny, turmeric-flavoured gravy, along with chopped potato, cauliflower and green peas.
Thotrin deserves a special shout out for making regional food cool before most and managing to preserve the unpretentious wonder of Northeastern cuisine