I said I’d have a review of a South Indian restaurant in Gurgaon this weekend but instead let’s go back to Humayunpur for another Naga meal. I was last seen there eating a thali at Farmer’s Kitchen. That was an excellent, if unplanned meal—by which I mean, that I’d gone with a plan to eat at a Manipuri place that turned out to be experiencing some monsoon-related problems (read: rain coming through the roof). This meal at The Fusion Naga was planned and was also excellent. This is basically the situation when you eat in a restaurant in Humayunpur: you have to try very hard to have a bad meal.

Normally, I would be wary of any restaurant with the word “fusion” in their name. But from the little I could see of  reports on The Fusion Naga food online, this didn’t seem to be a fusion restaurant in anyway. And indeed, it is not. It has a tiny menu, almost all of which features Naga dishes. The only exceptions are a few Chinese noodle and rice dishes. If this is fusion, bring it on.

I was there by myself and so ate another thali. Their main event options for the thali include chicken, pork, smoked pork with axone, smoked pork with anishi, and paneer in a veg thali. I wanted both the smoked pork with axone and the smoked pork with anishi and asked if it would be possible to get half and half. The very personable owner at first said they don’t do that and so I got the smoked pork with axone. But when the thali came out there was a bowl with a goodly portion of the smoked pork with anishi on it as well. Also on the thali were dal, a lethal chutney, rosep, cucumber, papad and a massive mound of rice.

All of the food was rather good. The restaurant had just opened when I arrived and I was the only person there for the duration of the meal. The owner sat with me as I ate and we had a very interesting (if somewhat depressing) conversation about his experience living in Delhi as someone from the Northeast. When I went to pay at the end of the meal he had not charged me for the second pork dish. I had to insist that I be allowed to pay and it took some doing.

By the way, the restaurant is a little hard to find despite the fact that there’s a big sign outside the building it’s in. That’s because it’s not clear when you turn into the building where in it the restaurant is located. I eventually found it in the basement.

For a look at the restaurant and everything I ate, launch the slideshow below. Scroll down to see how much it all cost and to see what’s coming next.

Either of the smoked pork thalis costs Rs. 450. I managed to prevail on him to accept another Rs. 200 for the second pork dish. Which means that before tip the total came to Rs. 650 or less than $7 at the current exchange rate. I’m unlikely to return on my next trip to Delhi (which will be in December) but I promised him I’d bring the whole family when we’re there together next summer (assuming our plans hold). In December I plan to eat at a different Naga place (I have an ambition to eat at every Naga restaurant in Humayunpur—I know it won’t happen but it’ll be a delicious failure).

Alright, that’s this week’s restaurant reports in the bag. Next week I’ll have two reports from Seoul sandwiched around an Indian restaurant report from the Twin Cities metro and then another Delhi report on the weekend. Before all those, however, I’ll have another booze review tomorrow.