Baked Cheese Crab
Fish Market, Paradeep
Crab off the morning's boats, baked and sent out in its own shell with curry leaf and dried chilli.
Signature dish
Seafood Laksa Soup
1914 · Mayfair Palm Beach Resort, Gopalpur-on-Sea
Laksa is a broth before it is a soup (coconut, chilli and aromatics cooked down until they carry rather than cover), and what goes into it is whatever the sea has given up. 1914 has an advantage there: the Chilika lagoon is up the coast, and prawn, crab and pomfret come in from the lagoon and the shore rather than from a supplier.
The broth is built first and the seafood goes in at the end, so nothing is overcooked by the time it reaches the table. A crisp wafer comes across the rim of the bowl to be broken into it.
1914 is the Pan-Asian dining room at Palm Beach, named for the year the hotel opened, with a live counter that turns out dosa in the morning and pasta in the evening.
