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| - I love Hakka Food and have a preferred place to visit when the need arises. This place serves very different Hakka food compared to the other places I've been to (around 8 different places now), so it's hard to compare them to others.
I visited for lunch and ordered: Chicken Pakora, Chilli Chicken (in gravey) and Spicy Crispy Beef. All dishes were listed with a chilli pepper beside them (on the menu) which denotes spicy..which, unfortunately, they weren't (to be fair, I do have a high tolerance for spicy foods, but these dishes should not warrant a spicy label)
Chicken Pakora - everywhere else I've had them, they've been dry. Here, they come served coated in a red sauce (tamarind?) that is mildly spicy, and covered with green onions and sliced onions. Although not what I was expecting, they were excellent. I did notice that the longer they sat in the sauce, the spicier they became.
Chilli Chicken - the gravey was a bit too runny for my liking, but very flavourful. I noticed that the breading on the chicken absorbed the sauce, which made them a bit pastey. Not bad, not great.
Spicy Crispy Beef - it was dry rubbed and excellent, but not spicy. It was probably my favourite dish. Although you could see tons of chilli pepper seeds, it lacked heat completely.
The above meal came with basmati rice.
Our server was excellent, attentive and friendly. Decor was a bit on the tacky side (dried flowers used a curtain ties, etc), but I didn't come to eat the decor......
Would I come here again? Yes, although I would request the heat factor be turned up a few notches. .
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