Apey Kade Gothamba Rotti Fish Meal

Sri Lankan Food Los Angeles

Soft gothamba rotti pairs well with mackerel and sambol at Apey Kade in Tarzana.

To call Sri Lankan food an endangered species in L.A. would be an overstatement, since there have never been more than a handful of that nation’s restaurants in the first place. However, the west Valley seems to be an incubator of sorts, and a short stretch of Ventura Boulevard in Tarzana has been home to restaurants and markets over the years. Apey Kade is one of the latest Sri Lankan additions, replacing Curry Bowl in November 2011.

Apey Kade’s owners set out the requisite steam table buffet, which they make sure to supercharge on weekends, but my choices came from the main menu. Gothamba Rotti Meal ($7.99) comes with supple rotti folded around a cracked, cooked egg, two sheets of crispy, naan-like bread, sweet and spicy onion sambol, and a choice of protein. Fish consisted of firm, pleasantly pungent mackerel chunks that Apey Kade crew members submerged in a peppery tomato based sauce that was thin enough to seep from folds of pinched bread.

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