What do you like or not like about Indian foods?

[Anonymous]

What are the must have items? Stay away from? What restaurants in NW DC are a must try?

[Anonymous]

Rasika or Rasika West End.

[Anonymous]

Stay away from uncooked street food or anything in contact with water.

Rasika

+1

[Anonymous]

I love the taste, spice, flavor, the way they warm me up inside, and that there are plenty of filling vegetarian options, even though I'm not vegetarian.

[Anonymous]

I find it interesting that Indian food somehow can achieve great complexity in flavors and be very repetitive almost boring. I also have found that Indian food at an inexpensive Indian grocery store or mom/pop shop can be equal or superior to a nice or higher end sit down Indian restaurant.

[Anonymous]

What's not to like? Though I do see the PPs' points about there being less variation in flavors and in quality than other cuisines.

Not good for summertime though.

[Anonymous]

Rasika West End is the best. I also really like Tamashaa (you must get the black garlic naan), Pappe, and Daru (get the lamb chops). All three of them are quite expensive and high end.

You can’t go wrong with tandoori chicken, saag paneer, and vindaloo. There are a lot of great South Indian dishes too which are totally different, but there’s not much good South Indian in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find it interesting that Indian food somehow can achieve great complexity in flavors and be very repetitive almost boring. I also have found that Indian food at an inexpensive Indian grocery store or mom/pop shop can be equal or superior to a nice or higher end sit down Indian restaurant.

Yep. Any new ideas to choose from a menu, try to make at home, or buy prepared at grocery stores (Trader Joe's probably has various items)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rasika West End is the best. I also really like Tamashaa (you must get the black garlic naan), Pappe, and Daru (get the lamb chops). All three of them are quite expensive and high end.

You can’t go wrong with tandoori chicken, saag paneer, and vindaloo. There are a lot of great South Indian dishes too which are totally different, but there’s not much good South Indian in DC.

So Rasika West End has both South Indian and non-South Indian? Do you know if they have space for a gathering of 40 people?

[Anonymous]

Some is too hot for me. I like kadhai in Bethesda.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find it interesting that Indian food somehow can achieve great complexity in flavors and be very repetitive almost boring. I also have found that Indian food at an inexpensive Indian grocery store or mom/pop shop can be equal or superior to a nice or higher end sit down Indian restaurant.

Yep. Any new ideas to choose from a menu, try to make at home, or buy prepared at grocery stores (Trader Joe's probably has various items)

I like lamb roganjosh best, but it's the same cumin-cardamon-coriander-ginger-garlic profile (I think of it as CCCGG when I make Indian food at home) as other popular dishes, just with the addition of clove, and I think cinnamon?

[Anonymous]

I struggle with Indian food because I HATE coconut milk, and it is used in so many Indian dishes.

So many people will tell me you can’t taste the coconut milk, but then I try it and can always tell which dishes have it.

[Anonymous]

I looove indian food. It's not always spicy, but I love the spicy ones. I love the layered flavors, all in harmony, spices dancing on my tongue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I struggle with Indian food because I HATE coconut milk, and it is used in so many Indian dishes.

So many people will tell me you can’t taste the coconut milk, but then I try it and can always tell which dishes have it.

I don't think I've ever used coconut milk in my Indian cooking. Seems pretty easy to avoid.

-Indian person

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I struggle with Indian food because I HATE coconut milk, and it is used in so many Indian dishes.

So many people will tell me you can’t taste the coconut milk, but then I try it and can always tell which dishes have it.

I don't think I've ever used coconut milk in my Indian cooking. Seems pretty easy to avoid.

-Indian person

Lots and lots of restaurants use it.