In Vietnam my first choice of restaurant would be Vietnamese, not French, Italian, Chinese or Indian However, after several days of Vietnamese food our lover of Indian food insisted that we try out an Indian restaurant, and this proved a happy find.
Like most restaurants in Hanoi, the ground floor was better than the upstairs room (except for those with fine views over a lake). I loved the tent like feel.
A new friend from Laos was one of our number and she had not tried Indian food before. Surprise. (We have eaten Indian food about once a week in London, England for decades.) So we had a lot of explaining to do.
Halal, for example, means no pork.
We ordered plain rice, stuffed paratha (bread) korma chicken (supposedly with nuts - couldn't find any or notice any but the flavour was lovely. We had enough left over to take away for lunch the next day.
With bottled water and one dessert shared between three, the total was the equivalent of about nineteen pounds sterling.
Any room for improvement? Yes, the gulab jamun centre was not solid but too liquid. One of our number who is a keen cook said it must be under-cooked.
Apart from that the food was lovely.
We were too busy chatting to each other to talk to the staff so I never asked the menaing of the restaurant name and I checked their website but could not find it. A google search revealed that it might mean treasure in an Indian language.
www.khazaana.vn
VN of course stands for Vietnam.
Like most restaurants in Hanoi, the ground floor was better than the upstairs room (except for those with fine views over a lake). I loved the tent like feel.
A new friend from Laos was one of our number and she had not tried Indian food before. Surprise. (We have eaten Indian food about once a week in London, England for decades.) So we had a lot of explaining to do.
Halal, for example, means no pork.
We ordered plain rice, stuffed paratha (bread) korma chicken (supposedly with nuts - couldn't find any or notice any but the flavour was lovely. We had enough left over to take away for lunch the next day.
With bottled water and one dessert shared between three, the total was the equivalent of about nineteen pounds sterling.
Any room for improvement? Yes, the gulab jamun centre was not solid but too liquid. One of our number who is a keen cook said it must be under-cooked.
Apart from that the food was lovely.
We were too busy chatting to each other to talk to the staff so I never asked the menaing of the restaurant name and I checked their website but could not find it. A google search revealed that it might mean treasure in an Indian language.
www.khazaana.vn
VN of course stands for Vietnam.
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