helcat12

I am looking for a good curry house within reach of either Abbotsford or Langley in B.C.

Anyone got any recommendations, please?

el_richo

No idea in those areas but if you want amazing home made samosa's, go to Sangam Sweets and Curry Express in Mission. It's just passed Superstore on a side road.

12 Samosa's for $9.95 + Tax.

Not eaten anything else there though but they're always busy on a lunchtime. It looks very authentic and nice though. The place is not exactly posh.

ExKiwilass

Scott Road in Delta. Can't give you names but it's where the locals go.
closer to langley than Abby though

Aviator

As Clearbook end of town is largely an East Indian community, should be no shortage around there.

minimeeze

That's what you'd think! We've been here 3 years and haven't managed to find a decent one yet. I've come to the conclusion that Canadian Indian and English Indian are very different! There is an Indian restaurant in Chilliwack called Shandhar Hut which isn't bad. http://shandhar.ca/ It's not fantastic, but probably the nicest one we've been to.

Aviator

Could not pay me to eat curry so never been an issue for me. The Greek Islands does us nicely.

The4BellsLondon

Gians on sth fraser way at Clearbrook

el_richo

I made a mistake above. 12 home made samosa for $5.95. Lovely.

I ate a meal there at lunchtime today and would definitely recommend it. It's not the nicest of places in the world from a decor point of view and it's pretty much in the middle of nowhere but boy can they cook.

The majority of diners were Indian and guessing from my previous visits, it's used lots by the local Indian community (being next door to a Hindu temple probably helps somewhat).

Sangam Sweets and Curry Express in Mission. Yum!!

helcat12

I have the website and it is 30 mins from us.
Great recommendation, el_richo.
We will be over there this weekend at some point.

el_richo

Nice. Like i implied, go for the food, not the ambience

helcat12

If the food is good, then places do not necessarily need fancy decor to attract custom and this sounds like such a place.

Might even go tonight!

Can you get these samosa and Naan bread to take out and freeze at home?

I assume you are not scoffing a dozen samosa on your own and at one sitting.

JonboyE

I am sure you are right. "English" Indian food is derived from Bengali immigrants whereas the vast majority of East Indians in BC are Punjabi. I don't know enough about the cooking to know why that makes a difference but it is not hardly surprising that two cultures so far apart have slightly different styles of food. E.g. you get roast lamb and potatoes in both the UK and Greece but you expect them to taste different.

Also, I suspect without any evidence to back this up, that as Indian food has become the English cheap meal out the taste has been modified to suite an English palette and lower the cost of production. In Vancouver, where Japanese is the cheap meal out, Japanese food has morphed into something quite unique.

JonboyE

Anyway, to take el_richo's advice that you should go for the food and not the decor we enjoy Baba Sweets & Shivalik Restaurant in Scott Road.

helcat12

True that curry in the UK has morphed into what the British want to eat.

I would prefer to eat more traditional Indian food.

My OH's bachelor pad when he first got here was in a house owned by an Indian family who lived upstairs.
The matriarch of this family was a proper Indian cook!

She took my husband under her wing (because he was without his wife to cook for him!) and was always popping down with curries and stuffed flatbreads and such for him.

They were always vegetarian and were the real homemade deal.
And delicious!

When he was invited to their Hindu wedding there was a veritable army of Indian matrons cooking up a vegetarian storm in the house and they made a fabulous spread for the guests.

If only we could find somewhere like that round here....

el_richo

Yeah i picked up 3 dozen on the way out yesterday. A dozen in our freezer, some in the fridge, and the rest with our friends.

They also do takeaway