After reading all the glowing reviews, I was reasonably optimistic that the food would be good or at least passable. I've had Indian food in many different contexts from homecooked to fine restaurants, and my experiences in even just "so so" establishments was always at least reasonably good. Its all about the flavors, as another reviewer who was disappointed in this place indicated. Indian food flavors are nuanced and unique. Everyone remembers their first amazing Indian food. Its like a religious experience.
I placed a carryout order of 5 dishes for my family of three with the idea that we could have leftovers for a few days. I was very hungry after working long hours and really needed a break. The order was very pricey and represented a financial sacrifice for me.
The first bad sign was the pool of orange grease which completely saturated the bottom of the paper bag lining the plastic carryout bag. ORANGE GREASE. It was unclear what dish that even leaked from.
I had ordered the Palak Paneer, and it was, I am not kidding, inedible. It managed to be overwhelmingly spicy and flavorless at the same time. The color and consistency was all wrong. It tasted nothing like Palak Paneer. It looked like frozen spinach put in a blender and mixed with God only knows what.I had to throw it out. It was not salvagable.
The rice biriyani was greasy and made with limp bagged frozen vegetables, used sparingly. There were patches of rice that had not been cooked in whatever the rest of it was cooked in.
I ordered two chicken dishes for my husband and daughter, and the flavor on the sauces for both were completely wrong. The actual consistency of the sauce was bizarre as well. Its as if they used little cream and made an odd substitute. I have no explanation for what was going on. Those dishes are salvageable with some...I don't know. I'll figure it out.
The noodle dish was passable as a noodle dish, but it had absolutely no "Indian" flavoring to it. If you didn't know it was supposed to be Indian food, it wouldn't be obvious. It too was very greasy. And needed salt.
Now, you might say: "The sign says Indian WOK and it says it also offers Asian food, so you should have known!" Well, I have eaten a lot of Asian food, having been married into an Asian family, and no home chef or professional chef would use blended ethnicities in food to create something that would profoundly sadden and disappoint any person who knows either of those ethnic foods.
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