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| - I Dum Pukht up indeed (Pun credit to Kris U.) For some reason, I forgot that 1) Indian food is primarily spicy 2) My tolerance level of spice can be categorized as "really sad". It's like a slow burn that catches up to you and suddenly you realize you're sweaty and can't stop sniffling. Even then, I kept eating so the food must be pretty good. Between two people, we got the chicken sampler platter, the shrimp biryani, and a cheese naan. We also got a taste of the chicken pakora from our generous Yelp friends that shared their food.
The standout to me was definitely the shrimp biryani, which is a bowl of fried rice and shrimp with a piece of naan baked on top. The flavours were very unique and something about the spice mix made it incredibly aromatic, it was almost flowery. The chicken sampler platter was tender and tasty as well and the chicken pakora is something I would definitely get again if I were to go to an Indian restaurant. The absolutely perfect way to cool down the spice was a mango lassi, which I thought was too sweet at first but it worked its magic when taken alongside the food.
Two things were a bit of a miss for me, however. One, the service was quite slow. Though the servers were friendly, it was a good 45 minutes between ordering and eating. We also had to ask multiple times for certain things (e.g. plates, water, naan). Second, the naan on top of our biryani was very undercooked. It was pretty much a piece of soft dough with burnt edges. Other people that got the biryani didn't have this problem, so maybe it was just a one-time thing.
I think that this is definitely one of the nicer options for Indian food in the GTA. Since I have basically no experience in this area, I'm just going to trust Shaheer M. when he says the food here is very authentic. What I do know is that it's definitely delicious food. Spicy, painful, delicious food. I regret nothing.
(56/100) - 2016
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