Upon finishing my work today in the morning, I visited this Indian restaurant for lunch today.
It was a rather busy Friday for this restaurant. Patrons were packed in the small dining area. Two customers were seated next to my table for two with me and my wife.
The girl sitting at the next table was very noisy. She chatted all the time over her lunch with his male friend over miscellaneous matters. It is obvious that she had a crush on him. It seems that the girl has never left Shatin in her life at all. She started with studying in a Band 5 School in Shatin, living in Shatin and dining out in Shatin street food stalls and cheap restaurants. It is likely that she will organise her wedding banquet in Shatin in the future. By the way, she ordered her Indian set lunch with very poor oral English. Coke Zero was pronounced as "Coke Sero". "Please" was pronounced as "Piss". What a pxxx !
The Indian set lunch ordered by her and her male friend (I am not sure whether he is her boyfriend or not. So, he remains a male friend in describing him) is strikingly similar to the Indian set lunch for inmates of Stanley Prison. I share such a view with evidence when I visited the kitchen of the Stanley Prison as a law student on my criminal justice course many years ago. I saw what a prisoner Indian set lunch is like.
The similarities rest upon the design of the aluminium steel or silver plates, the watery curry, the hard-looking plain rice and the not-so-fresh-looking vegetables. The only difference is that there are no English alphabets bearing the imprint of "H.K." on the mugs with handles (or the "ears" colloquially).
The a la carte menu is excellent. It is not the first time I visited this lovely small restaurant. I ordered a creamy butter chicken, a curry lamb, some Indian rice, some garlic nan, a glass of mango lassi for my wife and a glass of hot masala tea for me. The bill totalled around HK$400 for the two of us. It is not a very expensive meal for a Friday lunch.
Both the butter chicken and the curry lamb tasted well. No complaints on the food.
The only complaint is the noisy short girl sitting at the next table. She was still hanging her staff card over her stomach during lunch hours. The job must be very important to her. If she could have kept quiet, the overall dining experience at this Indian restaurant would have been much better.