Chow's Curry Review Tour

Maya Indian Sweets

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10 Market St
Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8231 1177
Lunch 11.30am-3pm Tue-Sun
Dinner 5.30-10.30pm Mon-Sun


I guess just by looking at the name, you might not have thought this was an indian restaurant, perhaps some kind of indian confectionary store? Their name comes from the large amount of indian slices and desserts they sell in the front, and then past the cash register is the main eating area. Some nice paintings, and the place was reasonably busy for a Friday night. I might also mention that the Hilltop Hoods were eating in the same room, but it's Adelaide, everyone runs into everyone here!

Our final score: 6.7583/10


Gosht Rogan Josh

In terms of curries, lamb and chicken are my two favourite meats (for those who don't know, Gosht curries have lamb meat). Rogan Josh dishes are probably as hot as I am comfortable in eating, so what better choice than the Gosht Rogan Josh! Described as a medium curry, the spicyness and hotness rated just above medium which was a good change from the creamy mild curries as of late. Good flavours, and good tender meat too, not to forget the excellent lamb mince naan bread! Not bad value as well, keeping prices under $30 each. The paintings were interesting, as they were encrusted with jewels (plastic probably) but nice nonetheless. Overall, a very warm homely feel to this little sidestreet venue, unfortunately we didn't try any sweets though, maybe next time!

Chow's Curry Review Tour
Chow's Curry Review Tour


Service: 7.1/10 -No complaints, good that the waitress underlined many times the words "extra hot" for Brad's vindaloo.
Quality: 7.5/10 -Tender and crumbly meat, very juicy and sauce was tasty.
Atmosphere: 6.9/10 -A little bit plain inside, but nice like a little cafe.
Value: 7.1/10 -Pretty good for averaging $30 including beer and special naan.
Final Score: 7.15/10

Hotness Rating: Chow's Curry Review Tour

Chow


Maya's Spicy Chicken

This week's curry was probably one of the less intelligent decisions I have made lately. "Maya's Spicy Chicken" for someone who does not like hot food, the rationale behind the decision was "its got peppercorns, I like pepper steak, lets try that." To its credit, you could clearly taste the pepper and that in itself was quite pleasant, the flavours also, quite nice, sadly for me though the heat was slightly ovepowering. Meat quality left a lot to be desired; somehow because the sauce was almost black they figured they could just throw anything in. Chicken naan won some points though, not so much on its flavour but on its uniqueness, give it a try, not fantastic, but cool all the same.

Chow's Curry Review Tour
Chow's Curry Review Tour


Service: 8.5/10 -Quick! Friendly staff, very keen to sell you more drinks.
Quality: 5.5/10 -Poor quality chicken, way too much skin and I even got a bonus piece of cartlige.
Atmosphere: 6.5/10 -Quaint backstreet establishment.
Value: 8.0/10 -Gouger street almost always gets a good wrap here, cheap parking makes it even sweeter.
Final Score: 7.125/10

Hotness Rating: Chow's Curry Review Tour

Nathan


Gosht Vindaloo (Hot)

That's just my life cycle,
curry matters when the night is friday,
Because my atmosphere and service be meaning everything to me,
Now face value and quality that seem to come easy,
Is that the Hilltop Hoods sitting next to us I see?
And if our tongue tell’s no lies, then we usually find,
that the prices were about average and there was no bind,
It's just good tasting food for these illusionary minds,
So stop walking straight and narrow down vindaloosionary lines.

Chow's Curry Review Tour
Chow's Curry Review Tour


Service: 7.0/10 -above average service considering the other patrons.
Quality: 6.0/10 -Lamb, not as much protein for BULKTEMBER, but some iron.
Atmosphere: 5.0/10 -At first I thought it was an Indonesian bakery.
Value: 6.0/10 -Three Serves of rice = One bowl = enough for Two people = WTF.
Final Score: 6.0/10

Hotness Rating: Chow's Curry Review Tour

Brad


The Chili Roulette!

Seven of us here again tonight, with a new candidate for the Chili game - Daniel! Previously a frequent visitor to the Schnitzel Review Daniel did not look forwards to eating chilis of this size... next thing you know he voluntarily eats one! And then of all people he gets his number up, breaking the drought of the previous few reviews.

Josh's Roulette Hits: 3 singles 1 double
Chow's Roulette Hits: 1 single 1 double
Gus' Roulette Hits: 1 double
Dan's Roulette Hits: 1 double
Lara's Roulette Hits: 1 single
Brad's Roulette Hits: 1 single
Daniel's Roulette hits: 1 single

Chow's Curry Review Tour
Chow's Curry Review Tour

Beginners luck strikes again for Daniel.

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