Tulele's lovo lunch packs
Tulele's Lovo is little bit different to the establishment we usually review. There is no restaurant, just lunch pack delivery service. As far as we know, it is Suva's first eatery to accept online orders - all you internet-enabled desk jockeys can head over to the lovo order form, and line up your Friday lunch.
You get a quarter chicken, rourou in lolo, big pieces of dalo, a small lemon, and a couple of chillies. There is only one item on the menu so deciding what to eat is easy.
Chicken doesn't fit the usual lovo profile; we've come to expect dry, slightly smoky chicken from a lovo: this is tender and juicy. Thumbs up for that. Thumbs down for being inconsistent - we've found one in three is still bloody next to the bone.
Picky Eater and his significant other complain about the 'palusami', but this concern can be dismissed, because it isn't palusami - it is rourou and lolo, cooked in a pot. I think its rather good.
Full marks for freshness: the 'palusami' was obviously packed hot ... so hot it melted holes in the bottom of more than one Styrofoam takeaway container in the batch we ordered. One just hopes that one isn't eating melted phenylethane with the rourou.
Your meal can turn up anywhere between 1100 and 1330 depending on where you are located in the delivery run. You may need a microwave in the office to fully enjoy it.
Overall a fresh and tasty meal, if inconsistent in timing, packaging, and preparation.
In Summary
- Tulele's Lovo
- Online order form
- Phone:
- Letila on 9328 926 or Clemence on 9491 884
- Delivery:
- Friday: 12 - 1pm
- Spend:
- $6 per person
4 comments:
I've never had lovo from them, despite living across the road from Mr. Telele and plus I went to school with his daughter.
Hats off to them for having an online order form!
My primary problem was not the goodness of the rourou, it was the disappointment that there was no palusami in the pack.
Why? Because the order form lists palusami on the menu! I think that's widely known as 'false advertising'.
The rourou is good ... but it's not what the order form promises.
Apart from that ... good to see food in Suva beginning to plug into The Long Tail.
Surely this must be a reprise of the much-lamented "Lovo Caravan" of Jeke Tulele which sat on the foreshore near the FDB in the '90s? In those days there were pork and fish as well, and it was, by far, the best mass-produced lovo food ever available.
Yes, we believe that this is the 2nd coming of the Lovo Caravan, but we haven't confirmed this. Given that we are the laziest Citizen Journalists alive, it is highly unlikely that we will be making any efforts to confirm it at all.
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