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One restaurant, one rule: The head chef orders your meals for you. In this video, we go to Semma, a South Indian restaurant in New York City that serves authentic Indian food. Going beyond the typical masala and butter chicken fare, Semma serves mouthwatering meals that you mostly eat with your hands, including a gigantic crepe and a saucy Maine lobster tail.
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00:00Get in here. It's really good. You have to try it.
00:01It's Indian food, baby. You got to use your fingers.
00:04One restaurant, one rule. I don't order anything.
00:06The chef decides everything.
00:08Today we're at Sema. The restaurant specializes
00:10in South Indian cuisine.
00:12Their whole mission is they want to show people
00:14what Indian cuisine is beyond chicken tikka masala
00:17and butter chicken.
00:19I'm excited to try it.
00:20Welcome to Sema. The food is something
00:22what I grew up eating back home.
00:23I'm just going to be surprised for you.
00:24I hope you'll enjoy it.
00:25So the first dish you brought out for us
00:27is their gunpowder dosa.
00:29He said it's one of the most popular dishes on the menu.
00:31So this is a rice and lentil crepe.
00:33I don't know if you can tell how big it is.
00:34It's enormous.
00:35It's like almost the size of my forearm.
00:37I was instructed to just dig in with my hands,
00:41and that's what I'm going to do.
00:43It's messy, which is how it should be.
00:45That is so good. Get in here. It's really good.
00:47You have to try it.
00:48It's Indian food, baby. You got to use your fingers.
00:52Yeah.
00:53So we have a massive Maine lobster tail
00:56that's cooked in moylee sauce.
00:57It's a coconut-based sauce with turmeric and mustard seed,
01:00and it has very beautiful dots of herb and chili oil.
01:04We also have some paratha and coconut rice.
01:07I'm going to cut it first into small pieces,
01:09and then I'm going to go in with my hands again
01:11because that's what we have to do.
01:13Beautiful.
01:15I'm from Connecticut.
01:16We do the Connecticut-style lobster rolls
01:18that are coated in butter, and this is like that,
01:20but with coconut and turmeric and spices.
01:23So Chef Pache hooked it up.
01:25We have so much food in front of us,
01:27and I just don't have time to talk about it all with you,
01:29but you're just going to have to come in
01:30and check it out for yourself.
01:31Thankfully, I have two of my producers here,
01:33and they're going to help me eat everything.
01:34Okay, so-
01:35So-
01:35See you later.
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