To me lamb usually has that...lamb-y taste..that is much too overpowering and unappetizing. This place somehow managed to ease up on that factor, which I was super impressed with. Especially thankful considering how much we ordered...
- Cold noodle salad: amazingly al-dente wide rice noodles mixed with chili oil and tahini, cucumbers and gluten ball 'croutons'. Slightly flooded with the chili oil, but overall really good balance of chewy, creamy, spicy, sour.
- Lamb soup: light, cloudy broth had a faint lamb-y smell but thankfully none of the taste. Nice to warm up with on a chilly day.
- BBQ Lamb skewers: excellently seasoned; very tender; easy to get off the skewers! - it's always nice being able to maintain composure when you're trying to pry meat off a stick in public :)
- Naan: lukewarm; too chewy...(think reheated stale bread). It was for sure a disappointing $4.99 to dish out, but I want to believe this was some sort of freak incident...if only so that no one else has to fatigue their jaw eating this.
- Roasted leg of Lamb: the outer coat of seasoning was a bit too salty but the meat had almost reached that fall-off-the-bone state of heaven and was quite tender. Starting to get lamb-ed out by this point...
- Fried lamb (ribs?): not sure what cut this was but it was ridiculously fatty. The fact that there was a fried coating on it was overkill, and the salty/sour dipping sauce could barely help cut through the greasiness.
The first 3 items were pretty tasty, so I wouldn't mind coming back again. A couple beside us got some soup noodles that looked pretty good...& which might've helped break up our first meat feast of 2011.