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| - Delicious x 25, both meat and vegetarian friendly. HOT. Great value.
This was an awesome find, a combination of South Indian and Srilankan food.. The exterior is completely overlookable, as the unassuming storefront in a rundown strip mall is dwarfed by its neighboring BURRITO BOYZ with its gaudy and "hip" awning. Once inside Dosa Corner, your nose is already telling you this is the mother-load.
Convinced my dad to join me here, and we ordered a plate of chicken curry and the vegetable biriyani. Both were stellar. The chicken curry is made in a fiery red gravy reinforced with fennel (a black licorice essence) and some kind of red-black-marbled peppercorn. Delectable! It's served up with a pile of basmati, and four small sides (ours included curried eggplant, spiced potato cubes, a yellow lentil dal, and a lemony sweet-sour vegetable that I couldn't identify, regrettably. All the sides were terrific.
The vegetable biriyani was a really strange call for me as I've disliked the dish at two other restaurants in the past, but, as though speaking in tongues, the order just belched out of my mouth, and it could only be fate that resulted in another mouth-watering success. This fried rice dish was impeccable. Packed with veggies, subtle spices, and a great amount of body-warming peppery heat... the mouth was stinging gently and the nasal cavities were losing all control. Loved it.
The only catch to this unconditionally super meal (and at a very reasonable price) was that they were exploding with business (80% of it take out orders) and there was only ONE person manning the register, the phone, serving the food in to-go bags, bringing food to the tables, and cleaning the tables. The impossible was being asked of this one person, yet she kept things going as best she could. The result was chaos in front of the register, the ability to maintain a single-file line had long since broken down, people were swarming the counter with requests, demands, complaints (about the speed of service), and unneeded jokes, and it took me almost 20 minutes of standing after the meal to pay. They need to fix this (ie. hire another front worker), still, I'd go back in a heartbeat.
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