good Indian food
For those who know Saigon, this place comes with a built-in reputation, as a sister restaurant to the one in District 1 of the big city. Younger brother manages this one, older brother the one in SG - so younger brother told us.

The food was good without being great. For a Friday evening it was pretty quiet, with only our table and one other occupied. So we had plenty of attention from manager as well as waiter. We ate standards such as mutton marsala, rogan josh, alu gobi, et al. The plain naan was too dry, others OK.

Reasonable prices, about 40 to 50 thousand Vietnam dong per dish on average.

We brought a cask of wine with us, which caused no drama from the house; in fact the manager insisted on pouring for us.

Negatives: 6 of us ate, and we ordered 3 breads: a plain naan, a butter naan and a garlic naan. Manager tried to tell us, and write down, at ordering time, that we should get 2 of each. I declined. When they were produced, they were cut in half and half a bread was set on the bread plate of each guest. So person a got stuck with half a plain naan, person b with half a butter naan, etc. Annoying. We surmounted that by passing things around and dumping bits in the middle as all should have been at the outset.

Before the meal was produced, the manager appeared with a plate of papadums, 6 in all, and placed one on the bread plate of each of us. Pretty nice, we thought, but we'll see what happens at bill time. Sure enough, at conclusion, for 6 papadums we had not ordered, 60,000 VND. Not good; I consider that to be rude and pushy ordering by management. And, 10,000 VND is ridiculous for a papadum.

Manager also insisted on spooning rice and some curry up onto individual plates. We had to stop him in his tracks and insist we take what we each want.

Ambience only fair; too closed in.    [08 Dec 2007 07:23:15]

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Recommended Dishes: mutton marsala, rogan josh, alu gobi, butter naan

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