Favorite Indian joint?

[andyinasia]

FWIW just read this on the BBC website:

Don't be fooled by the fact that curry is found in restaurants called "Indian" that are mostly run by Bangladeshis. Curry is as British as its favoured accompaniment, the pint of lager. Born to foreign parents, the British love both curry and lager as their own. The Oxford English Dictionary says the word curry derives from the Tamil "Kari", or the Kannada word "Karil". Although the root is Indian, South Asians have no single word to describe their many, distinct dishes. The word "curry", however, has helped sell Indian cuisine to the British. The Guild of Bangladeshi Restaurateurs believes there are now 9,500 "Indian" restaurants in the UK serving three million meals a week. The curry has developed to suit British needs. Vindaloo,for example, is a Goan dish of pork marinated in vinegar. The only thing certain about the British restaurant version is it is hot enough to generate conversation. Chicken Tikka Masala is known as Britain's National Dish. One legend has it created by a Pakistani chef in a restaurant kitchen in Glasgow. The next big taste innovation could come from the "Balti Triangle" in Birmingham, Manchester's Rusholme's Wilmslow Road, or Brick Lane, Southall or Tooting in London or perhaps one of the myriad restaurants that spice-up every British town.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18983558

[taxiboy]

I long for the type of sticky carpet curry houses you get in the English midlands that are open until 4am and flogging beer and cheap curries, reckon there's a niche there.

Red paisley flock wallpaper and a tiny portable TV showing Bollywood or maybe a tinny music system playing Bangra, the staff smoking by cupping their hands into a ball and breathing the smoke in through the gap between their thumbs - and the door locked after you start to eat so you can't do a runner on the bill.

yeah,i was in there lastnite,fucking luvitt! the real deal!

[rob77]

Anybody tried Mumtaz recently?

First time I thought it was pretty good but the next time they had no mutton so only choice of Cambodian chicken or Phnom Penh prawns...

They didn't inform me until after I spent 20 minutes choosing all the mutton dishes I wanted....not happy at all.

Haven't been back since but would consider if any other recent recommendations.

[cambod]

Mount Everest on 294 street is great , then closely followed by Dosa Corner

Giving it a try as we speak.

Mount Everest was ok. Kind of bland, but huge portions. It wasn't greasy, which was a HUGE plus! The naan was mediocre, at best.

(I always order chicken masala and naan)

[Wizard of Oz]

Mount Everest on 294 street is great , then closely followed by Dosa Corner

Giving it a try as we speak.

Mount Everest was ok. Kind of bland, but huge portions. It wasn't greasy, which was a HUGE plus! The naan was mediocre, at best.

(I always order chicken masala and naan)

I am flattered you took my suggestion. Your taste buds are obviously far more refined than mine.
Never had their masala I am a tikha person
Did they put you in the funeral parlour room out the back or in front with the gentle sound of the fight club next door

[cambod]

Mount Everest on 294 street is great , then closely followed by Dosa Corner

Giving it a try as we speak.

Mount Everest was ok. Kind of bland, but huge portions. It wasn't greasy, which was a HUGE plus! The naan was mediocre, at best.

(I always order chicken masala and naan)

I am flattered you took my suggestion. Your taste buds are obviously far more refined than mine.
Never had their masala I am a tikha person
Did they put you in the funeral parlour room out the back or in front with the gentle sound of the fight club next door

I shall return! Thx!

I sat in the Fight Club section. Although I did feel I was in a funeral home.

[Wizard of Oz]

I like the fight club section.At one table you can watch the lovely young ladies put their tattoos to good use by beating up their sparring partner. I was doing that one night and enjoying myself until she came over and asked me who I was perving on.

fastest "Som Ket Loi" and largest tip I have ever done in Phnom Penh

[Juan]

Had a very bad delivery experience with Flavours of India. An Indian guy on the phone took our order which was two set meals - one with chicken curry (for 6$) and another one with mutton curry (for 7$). The Indian hanged without confirming the price. After around 20 minutes he called back and repeated our order to confirm it, and hanged it at once again without a word about the price. When the delivery guys arrived, they brought the mutton meal, and a separate order of chicken curry (not a meal) for 4$ and a team meal for 30$. Of all the English words the Khmer guys should have known, they knew only one - "bye". Still, they were able to understand that we weren't exactly satisfied with the food they brought, so they put the Indian owner on the phone, and he was trying to insist that that was precisely what we ordered. Then he passed the phone to another Indian friend of his, who told us that it was ok if we just take the mutton set meal and the chicken curry. The problem was - the Khmers could not even figure it out to point where in two plastic bags the chicken curry was - apparently, they work for an Indian restaurant and don't know how the fucking chicken curry sounds in English, - so we just took the smaller bag assuming that it had both the mutton meal and the chicken curry. The Khmers first tried to take one dollar more than it really cost but failed. In the end, when we were already inside the house and opened the boxes, it was only the mutton meal which set us back 11 bucks! And the mutton itself - which was the main dish of the meal - consisted of only three tiny peaces of meat. Never going to deal with this restaurant anymore.

[Gary Gilmour's Eyes]

I asked the long term Indian expats at work for their favourite. Sher-e-Punjab, followed by Shiva Shakti and Flavours of India. They also told me that "mutton" is in fact goat. Real mutton isn't used in the dishes, here or in India.

[Pecahead]

There was an Indian food place called Lotus House off of Sothearos down one of the sidestreets (forget the number but it's the same street that Okay Guesthouse is on). Excellent chicken masala and naan for $5. I never saw ANYONE eating in there every time I would pass it. I went to go there a few days ago and it was boarded up.

[vladimir]

My favourite Indian joint was one I shared with my girlfriend in Chatsworth, Durban, 1978.

Durban poison.

[cambod]

Had a very bad delivery experience with Flavours of India. An Indian guy on the phone took our order which was two set meals - one with chicken curry (for 6$) and another one with mutton curry (for 7$). The Indian hanged without confirming the price. After around 20 minutes he called back and repeated our order to confirm it, and hanged it at once again without a word about the price. When the delivery guys arrived, they brought the mutton meal, and a separate order of chicken curry (not a meal) for 4$ and a team meal for 30$. Of all the English words the Khmer guys should have known, they knew only one - "bye". Still, they were able to understand that we weren't exactly satisfied with the food they brought, so they put the Indian owner on the phone, and he was trying to insist that that was precisely what we ordered. Then he passed the phone to another Indian friend of his, who told us that it was ok if we just take the mutton set meal and the chicken curry. The problem was - the Khmers could not even figure it out to point where in two plastic bags the chicken curry was - apparently, they work for an Indian restaurant and don't know how the fucking chicken curry sounds in English, - so we just took the smaller bag assuming that it had both the mutton meal and the chicken curry. The Khmers first tried to take one dollar more than it really cost but failed. In the end, when we were already inside the house and opened the boxes, it was only the mutton meal which set us back 11 bucks! And the mutton itself - which was the main dish of the meal - consisted of only three tiny peaces of meat. Never going to deal with this restaurant anymore.

We've had similar problems there twice. Called, they argued a little, then said "free for u next time" which they did. Just the wrong naan once..

[bbb]

Sher-e-Punjab. Authentic down the the Delhi Belly. Myself and friend have been sick for a week after eating there (hit within a few hours for me not feeling crash hot, within 24hrs down for the count).

[PhotoKhmer]

i tried 7-8 indian restaurants so far and the best by far is Sher-e-Punjab, second comes the India Restaurant in the riverside before the happy pizzas, third another near Lucky Supermarket in BKK1 but i forgot the name and the street name.

[cambod]

Sher-e-Punjab. Authentic down the the Delhi Belly. Myself and friend have been sick for a week after eating there (hit within a few hours for me not feeling crash hot, within 24hrs down for the count).

Maybe u ate one of the roaches I was talking about earlier.