chickwithnogutsy

For days now i've been wandering past a new Indian cafe slash restaurant on Knuckey St - Darwin's Little India, near the corner of Stradforth Lane. What pulled me in was the mention of Teh Tarik - a kind of frothy sweet pulled-milk tea that i became obsessed with in Singapore. Given my penchant for unhealthy attachment to weird things, the mere mention of it was enough to make me start stalking this cafe, which has been closed for the past week. I agreed to meet my mate Hungry for lunch today to get sushi and decided to poke my head in on the way back if it was open to check it out and try their tea..... anyway we stuck our heads in on the way on a whim and the proprietor, a delightful woman called Aminah, engaged us in a lengthy conversation about the evils of backpackers who don't turn up for work and by the time she'd finished talking, Hungry and I were starving. Also she had done a fine job of convincing us to stay - the shop which used to look pretty grimy has been renovated and is all sunny yellow paint, captivating indian music and good looking food! and Aminah offered us loads of it!!

I had the chicken biriani (chef's special) and tried the medium lamb, the beef and the butter chicken. The food was fresh, delicious, aromatic, all good and there was no greasiness, no hideous gutsache or any other unwanted, unanticipated after effects......(sadly she made me a teh tarik and it wasn't as good as Singapore, just proving that you can never really recapture the past).....

Darwin's Little India is open from 830am to 8pm, 7 days a week and Aminah does a chef's special every day. She offers a lunch special at $9.50 and does catering!!! Get down there.