KaoSarn, a family-run Thai restaurant, is consistently packed with diners who come hungry for its sweet red prawn curry and spiced roast chicken servedwith sticky rice steamed in a banana leaf.
Start your morning in South Indian culinary heaven at one of several branches of Saravana Bhavan with a masala dosa, a huge, crisp rice pancake stuffed with a potato-onion filling servedwith tangy coconut chutneys.
Standout dishes include sea bream ceviche with amarillo chilli and coriander, yellowtail tiradito topped with green chilli, coriander and lime, and a steaming Chilean sea bass in ricewith lime and chilli that is served in a clay pot.
The two meals served at Vishal's anganwadi a plate of puffed rice dotted with a few nuts and a serving of sprouted moong dal seem unlikely to give him 500 calories.