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This Mumbai Restaurant's Beef Fry Was Voted Asia's Best, But You Won't Find It On The Menu

This Mumbai Eatery's Beef Fry Was Voted Asia's Best, But You Won't Find It On The Menu
An employee selects cuts of Irish rib-eye beef steak as they work on the packaging line at ABP Foods Group's meat processing plant in Cahir, Ireland, on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015. The U.S., the world's biggest beef consumer, is lifting a ban on imports from Ireland more than 15 years after mad cow disease spurred restrictions of supplies from Europe. Photographer: Aidan Crawley/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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An employee selects cuts of Irish rib-eye beef steak as they work on the packaging line at ABP Foods Group's meat processing plant in Cahir, Ireland, on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015. The U.S., the world's biggest beef consumer, is lifting a ban on imports from Ireland more than 15 years after mad cow disease spurred restrictions of supplies from Europe. Photographer: Aidan Crawley/Bloomberg via Getty Images

They say irony is that one dish that truly carries the flavours sweet and sour. And Mumbai's Kerala eatery Sneha Restaurant owners are now faced with a situation where they don't know if they should laugh or cry.

The Mahim-based eatery's Kerala-style Beef Fry has won the Tastiest Beef in Asia award by Chowzster, a global network of food enthusiasts in a ceremony held in Singapore, just days after beef was banned in Maharashtra, reports Mumbai Mirror.

While the eatery owners and staff were informed about the award on the weekend, Mumbai Mirror reported that they staff was seen wondering whether things would ever return to "normal".

"Both Hindus and Muslims from all over the city would frequent our restaurant for our beef cooked in the traditional Kerala style," K Prabhakar, an employee from Sneha Restaurant, told Mumbai Mirror. "We used to sell nearly 30 kg of Beef Fry every day," he added.

"Our suppliers tell us they will start supplying cara-beef (water buffalo meat) after a week or two, but prices will go up by at least two to three times. Even chicken and mutton prices are expected to rise," Prabhakar told Mumbai Mirror.

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