Istio Service Entry and Virtual Service not working properly on minikube

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I have 2 minikube clusters: Cluster1 and Cluster2.
Cluster1 has Backend Service
Cluster2 has Info Service

Usecase: Backend service sends request to the Info service using the ingress gateway

Cluster2 has a ingress gateway and I used minikube tunnel command to get an external IP for the gateway. The IP was 127.0.0.1 and port is 8080. If I curl from the Backend pod to host.docker.internal on port 8080, I get the correct response from the Info service.

I have created a service entry for the external service(Info) in Cluster1.

apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: ServiceEntry
metadata:
  name: info-ext
spec:
  hosts:
  - host.docker.internal
  ports:
  - number: 8080
    name: http
    protocol: HTTP
  resolution: DNS
  location: MESH_EXTERNAL

When I try to access http://host.docker.internal from the backend application. It keeps sending the request on port 80.

* Rebuilt URL to: http://host.docker.internal/
*   Trying 192.168.65.2...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to host.docker.internal (192.168.65.2) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: host.docker.internal
> User-Agent: curl/7.52.1
> Accept: */*

Can I get any leads about what I am missing and how can I access a external service directly.