Seasee Brings Southeast Asian Comfort Food to Mumbai This Monsoon
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Mumbai’s monsoon has a way of narrowing down what you actually want to eat. Not much interests you when it’s pouring outside — mostly just something hot, something you can eat slowly, something that doesn’t ask too much of you. Seasee in Bandra has built its rainy-season menu around exactly that instinct, pulling from the street food traditions of Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore — food that’s been doing this job for monsoons a lot longer than Mumbai’s had a stake in it.
The Laksa is the one to start with. It’s a coconut-based vermicelli soup — bok choy, cabbage, mushrooms, a fistful of fresh herbs, rice noodles cooked just right — and it’s rich without tipping into heavy, spiced without shouting about it. Order it once out of curiosity and there’s a decent chance you’ll be back for it specifically the next time it rains.
The Soto Ayam sits a little quieter on the menu but does similar work. It’s an Indonesian chicken vermicelli soup, spiced and herbed, and it’s the kind of dish nobody photographs for Instagram but everybody finishes.
If you want more of a jolt, Tom Yum is where to go — mushrooms, lemongrass, Thai ginger, kaffir lime leaf, coriander root, all thrown into a broth that hits hot, sour and savoury more or less at once. And on the gentler end, there’s Pho — Vietnam’s flat rice noodle soup, built on a broth that carries just enough cinnamon stick and bay leaf to feel like something, without weighing the whole dish down.
Not everything on the menu leans on broth, though. Hainanese Chicken Rice keeps it simple: fragrant rice, slow-cooked chicken, a light soup on the side that ties it together. Thai Green Curry, served with jasmine rice, goes creamier and more herb-heavy, with a spice level that builds instead of hitting all at once. And for anyone who wants a proper full meal, Pla Kapong — a Thai fish curry — comes with rice that’s clearly there to mop up whatever’s left in the bowl, which is usually most of it.
None of these dishes have been reworked or dressed up for a Mumbai audience. That’s more or less the point — this is food that already knew what it was doing long before it landed on Linking Road, and Seasee seems content to just serve it the way it’s meant to be eaten.
Come in for a slow lunch while it’s still raining, or a dinner with people you don’t mind sitting across a table with for a while. Either way, the bowls are doing most of the work.
Fact Sheet
Address: 2nd Floor, Suburbia Building, Between Linking Road, Swami Vivekanand Road, Bandra West, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400050 Price for Two: ₹1,800 (approx.)
