Halal INDIAN FOOD!! 12+ Elite Indian Dishes at Akash | Miami Beach, Florida

And there's two different sauces here. So this is a tamarind sauce. Tamarind chutney. Tamarind chutney. The best. And this is a green chutney. So you dip it in both. Nice, crispy, sweet, minty. The minty and the sweetness. Yeah, and the crunchiness. They complement the crunchiness. Yeah. Mmm. What's up everyone? I hope you're all doing amazing. This is David Hoffman from David's Been Here coming at you from beautiful South Beach, Miami, Florida, my hometown. Today I'm so pumped because I'm here at Akash Indian Restaurant. The best Indian restaurant on South Beach. Yes, I said it. It looks amazing. High-end, upscale Indian food. They focus on a lot of northern Indian dishes, but they also have some southern dishes. We're gonna try like 10 different Indian foods. I'm pumped. I'm excited. Let's go inside. Let's try some chai and let's eat. Oh, I can't wait. This is gonna be amazing. And this is Akash. As you can see, beautiful white. It looks like Santorini in here, man. Looks amazing. Love it. Akash means sky. That's what we have the name for. Because we're on the beach, that's what it means. Akash means sky? Sky. And what's your name? My name is Govind. Govind. So you're the manager? Yes, I'm the owner. Alright, so he's the owner. He says we're gonna have the best dishes of the house, like 10 dishes. We have one special dish which you won't find anywhere. It's called masala crab cake. We spice the crab in the real meat and then that's our appetizer. Masala crab cake. Dude, you're blowing me away. This is the name. Alright, let's go to the kitchen. Let's see how you make the dishes. Hello. It's hot in here. Everything's firing up. They're firing up all the time. That's a fish amritsari right here, cooking. That's a typically Punjabi dish. That's a vegetable samosa. This is the lamb vindaloo. Looks amazing. The smells just hit me. As you put it on the pan, wow. And at the end of this, we're going to add cream in there. Actually, we have two tandoors. One for the meat, only for meat, and one for bread. So this is very high temperature for the meat, so the meat cooks slowly and nicely. And the bread is also very high because the bread cooks very fast, in like 30 seconds. So it's literally higher than that. From the streets of Mumbai, special onion bhaji. So the onion bhaji is basically very similar to pakora. You know, it's fried, it's mixed with like masalas, onions, chickpeas, and then they fry it. So once the fish is cooked, he's gonna add coconut milk. So it's basically fish and a lot of coconut. Yes. Oh my god, it looks amazing. This is the best fish? Yes. This is from South India. Most of the part of the South. So anywhere that touches the sea in the South. Yes. This is tandoori shrimp. We have jumbo shrimps, marinated in the sauce, and tandoori masala and everything. This is one of the special shrimps we sell in the restaurant. Those are big pieces of shrimps. So this is how they make the tandoor, right? So they get the skewer, they skewer the shrimp, or the chicken, or the lamb, and they put it in the tandoor. So this is the goat curry, a Kash in-house special. So we have tandoori lamb chops. It's the best here. It's really close to my heart. We're gonna make a garlic naan and a Kashmiri naan. Kashmiri naan is with nuts, raisins, and coconut. And we put a little honey so that we don't add sugar. We add honey. Right here he's making the chili garlic naan, which is the bullet naan. Yes. Right? Super spicy. Yes. Lamb chops, chicken tikka masala, and garlic naan. That's the restaurant's favorite dishes. Now he's pouring all the curries. We're starting off with the fish madras. Next up we have the lamb. So that was the goat curry. Smells right now, oh, blowing my mind. Okay guys, so Govind and me are gonna devour the best Indian food in Miami. We have 12 different dishes, including two breads. We have some lamb, goat, fish, chicken. We have a bunch of appetizers, but we're starting it off with some Kingfisher. We're on Miami Beach, South Beach. Cheers. Nice and refreshing. I love this beer, man. Thank you. I like the Kingfisher Strong. It's actually my favorite. And it's a curry beer. It's a curry beer. It's a curry beer. It's made to pair with the curry. So what happens, it acts like a wine. Okay. So wine when you drink, eat food and drink, so it clears your palate. We're starting with the lollipop. Okay. So this is the chicken lollipop. I'm from Bombay. I'm a Bombay guy. That's from the streets of Bombay. So we gotta dip it into the Indo-Chinese sauce, the Szechuan. Yeah, Szechuan sauce. Oh, it's gonna be spicy. Nice dip, all around. Cheers. Cheers. That's why it's called lollipop. You hold it. This one was amazing. Wow. With the sauce, that's amazing. That's like perfect. That's ginger, garlic, spices. But not too spicy. Not too spicy. So what's this one? This is fish sambar curry. Fish sambar curry? Yeah. So add some... It just, it don't have that much sauce. Just what you have to do is just lime. It's a finger bite. Normally people have it with a toothpick. So just like this? Yeah, just like that. It's basically like a fish finger. It's a fish finger. And this is Punjabi? This is Punjabi. So a lot of the dishes here are from Mumbai, Bombay. Because he's from there, you know, he has to show his love. Born and brought up in Bombay. So this one's easy, right? You just grab this. And it's two different sauces here. So this is a tamarind sauce. Tamarind chutney? Tamarind chutney. And this is a green chutney. Nice, crispy, sweet, minty. The minty and the sweetness. And the crunchiness. Yeah, they complement the crunchiness. This is amazing, man. So again, dip into the tamarind. And then into the mint. And you have this delicious, sweet, minty, sweet. If I close my eyes, I'm in Mumbai. So my friend, what's next? That's another special. Bombay special. Vegetable samosa. That's a Bombay special? I didn't know that. It's all over India. There are Punjabi samosa, there are mini samosa, there are meat samosa. There are so many types of samosa. This is like deep fried. And so which one do you go with? Either or? Either or. There's a tamarind sauce, green chutney. They go very well with both. This is great. So if you guys don't know, a samosa is basically a fried potato piece. So it's like a pie. It's like a little potato pie. I love it. So he said to break off a piece like that. Then get a little bit of mint. A little bit of tamarind. I like that. You see how the pieces of potatoes are chopped and put inside? Yeah, I know. When you put it in the mouth, it just melts. So this is basically a veg samosa. So this is masala crab cake. This is what we came up with the recipe. And it's real meat, crab meat. And we put all the masala inside. And it's supposed to be like aloo tikki. But instead of aloo, we have real crab meat. So chunks of crab. And then what do you have on top? And then we have a spicy mayo. A minty flavored mayo. And a sriracha spicy flavored mayo on the top. Ready? One. You're going to take half? I'll take the whole thing. Cheers, my friend. This is one of the best crab cakes I've ever had. Thank you. This is so good. I mean, just the crab. And you have the little tanginess of some curry. And then a little spice on top. I think what this one needs though is maybe a little bit of this. Very minty. Oh my god, the sweetness. The turkey crab. The crab is so fresh. So before we start the lamb and the shrimp tandoor, I'm going to try the mango lassi. So it's a good palate cleanser? Yes. Don't drink too much. It'll be like full. I know, it's delicious but really filling. Oh my god. So let's pick one up. Look, perfect. Let's do it. This is the best. It's still moist inside. So delicious. Cooked from out, nicely seared. It's like falling off the bone, dude. Okay guys, next up we have the shrimp. I'm just going to go in and try one. This is so phenomenal. Spices. I love these shrimp. So next up we're on the main courses, right? So the four different curries and the two breads. We're starting off with the chicken tikka masala and this one? The goat curry. Wow. Chicken tikka masala. When the marrow is cooked really nice, you're going to enjoy this. So what we have is kashmiri naan with nuts, raisins, fennel seeds, coconut powder and honey. So this is, you can eat with, because I try to keep this on the menu. People love it. And since we have a Spanish crowd here, which doesn't like too much spicy, that balance out for their meats. Okay guys, so one thing I got to say, because a lot of people don't know about Kashmir. Kashmir and Jammu, it's a union territory now, right? They changed it from a state to a union territory. Union territory. And it's located in the very north of India on the borders with Pakistan. They have this bread, which is a Kashmiri bread. It's always a little sweet because they have raisins in it as well. And I try it straight. It's too good. Coconut. Coconut, fennel seeds. Fennel seeds, wow. And the Kashmiri people make it with real dry cherry. I'm in awe, man. Wow. By the way, I love how it pairs so well with the chicken, with the curry. The sweetness. It's so good. My favorite naan is a Kashmiri naan. We have a korma. So my friend is saying for the goat, I need to try the bullet naan, which is basically garlic and chilies. Are you sure? I'm sure you can try it. It's spicy though. You got to be careful because the goat has a little bit of bones. We make our goat with the bones and that's where the taste is, in the bone marrow. Wow, spicy. And the goat will just melt in your mouth. Wow. So you have to use your finger. How I do it in India? That's all. So get the rest of this delicious naan with the goat. This goat is so flavorful. It's tender. It's buttery. Just soak it up. So what do you do when you have the naan? You soak up all that delicious sauce like that. Perfect, my friend. So what's the last two dishes? Last two dishes are from South India since we focus too much on North India. I want to focus on two best dishes from South India. There are so many, South Indians are famous for those. But what I found personally, two dishes will be really great for this restaurant was a fish Madras curry in a Madras sauce and then we have a lamb vindaloo which is mostly Portuguese, Indian food and which is most famous. So I'm going back to South India right now. Look, right there. By the way, he's been to South India. Oh, multiple times. He's going to judge this curry on his palate, Oh, wow, man. The curry with the coconut milk and the super soft flesh of this fish. Wow. You got to mix it, right? You mix it like this. You go with three fingers. When you go to South India, you'll learn how to do this. So you do it though. You're not supposed to leave anything. I've seen it like this. You get every grain just like that. So this is how you do it, right? You just grab four or three. I'm really full, but I'm sure there's dessert, right? Oh, my God. The rice is filling. Don't do this with your girlfriend. You're having a dinner with a girlfriend in the United States. Don't do this. Try to be mannered like with a fork and knife. This is Indian ice cream. It's kulfi, right? This is mango kulfi and this is cardamom and saffron. Two expensive spices used in a dessert. The saffron? Wow. And this is the mango. So good. It actually feels like I'm just drinking mango juice straight up. And if you guys didn't know, mango is the national fruit of India. This is Indian food, elite Indian food here on South Beach at Akash Miami Beach Indian Restaurant. Man, everything was phenomenal. I gotta say, the shrimp tandoor, the lamb tandoor, the fish curry with the coconut, absolutely incredible. I love the Kashmiri naan, super sweet and delicious. I mean, every single dish was phenomenal. And again, this is halal food. Obviously, they're not showing but lamb, chicken, everything we buy is halal. Amazing. And you're located here on Alter Road and 14th Court, so right in the heart of South Beach. When you come to Miami, come here to Akash and try their amazing food. I really feel like I'm on a Greek island right now. Thank you so much. Thank you for coming out and trying our food. Thank you so much. If you liked this video, please give me a thumbs up. Leave me a comment below. Subscribe to my channel for more awesome travel content. I'll see you in the next travel food adventure in Miami. Dude, I can't leave this one.