What Are You Eating?
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JimTravers¤£a!!Travers
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The FOOD SITUATION in the parking lot was lacking!!! I expected at LEAST 15 different guys with grills fully flamed up. Flames reaching 10ft high!!! Should see the flames from several guys grills in the parking lot flames reaching 10 feet high. If not its unacceptable!!! An outrage! Claiming their grilling burgers and whatnot. DOGS!! BRATS!! Etc. Then u show up and there's no flames going 15 feet high from grills in the parking lot!! Should be several Big Grills with Big Time Flames reaching 10+ FEET. In the parking lot!
I know my way around Japanese, Thai and Vietnamese menus pretty well and prepare a lot of it at home but I have been tempted to try a new Indian restaurant in town. In looking at the meal choices available it sounds interesting but nothing is at all familiar. Does anyone have any go to choices when going to an Indian restaurant? There are about 50 different menu items and I'm hoping not to just blindly select.
What's the name of the place, I'll scope the menu and give some recs.
Indian can be a bit like Chinese, where some dishes/restaurants are tasty but very Americanized while others can be more authentic or regional.
It has a very unusual and creative name, "The Great Indian Cuisine" of all things. Don't know how that came up with that.
I haven't been there, but heard it was good from some people I trust...
I'm not exactly a boring eater...and have looked at the menu a few times since I heard about it, and it seems like a nice selection...but would like to try a few things I am familiar with to form an opinion on the place.
Its definitely on my list to try,:
Lamb Boti Masala, Samosas with Channa, Onion Naan and Kheer for dessert, but considering the Korma and the Goat Curry Special also.
Looks to be worth the price of admission.
I'm not exactly a boring eater...and have looked at the menu a few times since I heard about it, and it seems like a nice selection...but would like to try a few things I am familiar with to form an opinion on the place.
Its definitely on my list to try,:
Lamb Boti Masala, Samosas with Channa, Onion Naan and Kheer for dessert, but considering the Korma and the Goat Curry Special also.
Looks to be worth the price of admission.
I like:
. vegetable parkoras as an appetizer (deep fried breaded fritters)
. Saag paneer (spinach and or mustard greens with pieces of mild cheese)
. Butter chicken (Chicken in a rich cream sauce)
. Tandoori chicken (like BBQ)
. Lots of naan (flatbread)
. Raita as a side (plain yogurt based sauce that helps cut heat)
. Mango lassi to drink (like a mango smoothy)
Indian food can be very spicy. I generally order a spice level of 1, but I'm kind of a wuss re spicy food.
Many Indian restaurants offer an all you can eat buffet (often only at lunch). It's a great way to try a little bit of a lot of things to see what you like.
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App: alu tikki (fried spiced potato cake)
Vegetarian: daal makhani (black lentils in butter curry), chana masala (spiced, well rounded chickpea curry), aloo gobi (potatoes and cauliflower, mild but rich)
Non-vegetarian: vindaloo (south Indian tamarind curry), goat special, achari (never had it, but I'm intrigued), lamb boti masala (boldly spiced, rich)
For bread, my favorite is ajwaini parantha, the layers are so fun to eat
Dessert kheer for sure, but I LOVE all things cardamom
Like goat so I would personally order that. Other things that stand out to me as worth trying are below, but keep in mind that I've eaten a lot of the more popular options of various quality levels already so I wouldn't pick those, but butter chicken (makhani), chicken tikki masala, and saag paneer are very popular and tasty.
App: alu tikki (fried spiced potato cake)
Vegetarian: daal makhani (black lentils in butter curry), chana masala (spiced, well rounded chickpea curry), aloo gobi (potatoes and cauliflower, mild but rich)
Non-vegetarian: vindaloo (south Indian tamarind curry), goat special, achari (never had it, but I'm intrigued), lamb boti masala (boldly spiced, rich)
For bread, my favorite is ajwaini parantha, the layers are so fun to eat
Dessert kheer for sure, but I LOVE all things cardamom
Well that was a mistake. I waited 45 minutes for what may have been the worst $30 meal I have ever been served. Stay away from the goat curry unless you like what appeared to be 4 day old bone and gristle in a sauce that had the consistency of oatmeal. The picture on their website looks good but that is not what you get. Not going there again.
^That stinks.
These are places and things worth going back to.
Couple favorite places at Pike Place are Mr. D’s Greek Delicacies and Mee Sum Pastry.
Lamb Yeero (that’s how they spell it on the menu) with hot sauce for me, BBQ hum bao for the kids, shrimp and pork dumplings for Pops.
Fer dinner, kan you say krispy kornell chikken?
These are places and things worth going back to.
Couple favorite places at Pike Place are Mr. D’s Greek Delicacies and Mee Sum Pastry.
Lamb Yeero (that’s how they spell it on the menu) with hot sauce for me, BBQ hum bao for the kids, shrimp and pork dumplings for Pops.
Fer dinner, kan you say krispy kornell chikken?
Not sure where you are at, but I had couple good Indian meals at this restaurant in Mill Creek (and they have a lunch buffet):
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wanderingrichard
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Indian? Best in the area is Saffron in North Gate, Seattle
Saffron is good, but I'm partial to Taste of India on Roosevelt
Personally I do like goat...especially if it's split open over a fire on the lawn of some Greek person's house...so I have usually chosen it whenever I see it on a menu...but I have also been disappointed by the choice more than once.
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I know less than nothing about Indian food and perhaps this place is like the many cookie cutter chineseish restaurants but I did look at the other tables around me. The bowls of rice and the baskets of naan were easy to identify but the main dishes all appeared to be homogeneous globs of unidentifiable contents in various shades of orangeish or reddish brown. I was told some were chicken, some were lamb, some were seafood and some were vegetarian but they all looked the same and appeared to have been prepared sometime in the last week or two. To those who enjoy quality Indian food can you ever tell what you are being served by looking at the ingredients as you can with fresh Thai or Vietnamese dishes or does it always appear to be an overcooked amorphous blob of who knows what?
Sometimes it's the nature of curries, things stewed together and they often share a lot of spices but the ratios, how the spiced are bloomed, and the degree of cooking on onion/garlic/ginger/tomato differentiate the different dishes.
If you want to go on an adventure together, I'll take you to a place I like and we can share some dishes that I think are good.
That curve is still steep in Tacoma, we have to go north to find anything of true qualityThough sauces do all sort of look alike, what's underneath is different...
Sounds like a bad experience.
I like Indian food, so perhaps the new spot isn't as good as I was told.
Grading on a curve for th Peninsula maybe..
wanderingrichard
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@Gary Knowels,
Look up Mediterranean Gyro Grill, I think it's in Ruston. Jay catered our wedding when he had just the one store in Federal Way. Since he's now partially paralyzed and in a wheel chair, his extended family has taken over most of the operation. Anyway, they offer Indian, Greek and Lebanese, and there's always a line down the street.