TLDR: A hole in the wall serving great Indian/Pakistani food.
The dish I usually would use to gauge an Indian restaurant is the lamb or mutton biryani. This usually takes hours to cook and can make or break a meal. The rice needs to be deeply fragranced from being slowly cooked, and the texture needs to be perfect. In this case, the rice was near perfect. Very, very long-grained, intensely flavorful and spicy. It was spicy like a Hyderabadi biryani but the flavor of the lamb did not infuse into the rice. so I was a little confused if it was a dum cooked biryani. Perhaps being a small place, and offering vegetarian, chicken and lamb biryani, the meat was cooked separately and mixed in.
Nevertheless, a place I would be back to should I be craving Indian food again while in Hong Kong. Service was good, with the masala chai being hot and in a proper tin cup!
As a hole in the wall, it was tiny - seating for 12 would be tight, and most patrons I found to be taking out during the time I was there. Not a place I would bring a group to, but may be better as a take-out. read more