-First off, I went to Baluchi's by W. 3rd st for my friends 20th birthday a few weeks back. First time there, the service was great, but the portions were smaller than what I'm used to at Indian restaurants, but it was good never the less. Starting with the picture on the left, that's the soup of day, if I don't remember wrong, I think it's lentil soup. When I asked about the soup of the day, I asked if "it's that yellow stuff?" (very bright, right?) Anyways, the soup was a bit spicy, but I finished it nevertheless cause I'm a soup person, don't get me wrong, it was good, just a tad spicy that's all.
- The picture in the middle shows some of the stuff that my friends and I ordered that day. Starting with the white stuff on the top, which is the rice and going clockwise, first is the: Navrattan Korma- Assorted vegetables in a cream sauce with nuts & fruit, ( it's kinda sweet?, i don't really remember, and a vegetarian entree, my friend was trying to be a vegetarian that day and she succeeded, she didn't have any of the meat on the table.)
Chicken Korma- Supremes in almond cream sauce ( this was my choice, it was kinda sweet and you can actually taste the almond flavor, pretty good for people who don't like spicy indian food.)
Chicken Vindaloo- Vinegar, hot chillies & spices make this a very hot dish ( it was spicy and sour, but not that spicy since I can eat HOT food. It was suppose to be lamb, but somehow they mixed the order and my friend got chicken vindaloo instead. I wonder if they charged her for lamb or chicken)
Chicken Tikka Masala- in tomato & cream sauce ( the most common indian dish that I know of, so I don't particularly remember how it tastes, but I'm assuming good.)
So that's all the food from the middle picture. Looking at it brings back good memories.
- Last but not least, the picture on the right isn't a real item we ate. It's Strawberry mousse cake with water, that's the destroyer in me coming out to wreak ha
voc on the table and plates.Next on my plate is this lovely item to the left. Something that I had at work the other day. It's banana, cream cheese and honey (? or something sweet?) on a panini. Everything was warmed, so it was creamy and sweet, but not too sweet and it tasted absolutely yummy. I wanted more after I was done. Somehow when I first saw it, it reminded me of mushrooms. Anyways, I shall try to find out what it's actually made of so that I can replicate it at home on of these days.
Rose in Honey Lemon, that's what this drink is called. It looks nice and I'm sure if would have looked better if the cup was plastic and clear, but they gave me a Styrofoam cup, so we can't see anything but the top. The taste was kinda sweet, but relatively bland. As in you taste the sweetness in your mouth and it's gone almost the second you stop drinking. It tastes like those dried plum thingys Chinese grocery stores sell and something else, too. Well at least it's sorta healthy, there's rose and you eat the buds, sorta like bubble tea.
