Lamb curry in a hurry @ Chaska Express

I didn’t learn to love Indian food until I discovered my first AYCE Indian buffet. But it turns out there’s a few funky Indian joints all over this city–we’ve even got an Indian food festival in the summertime, at Nathan Phillips Square. And now, just a Bollywood shimmy away at the Atrium on Bay, they’ve got some real-deal Indian street food…inside a food court!? This is Chaska Express:

This funky little food stall definitely stands out next to Subway and Feta & Olives (which may or may not still be 10% off). And they’ve got all the meats–chicken tikka, lamb tikka, fish tikka, mint chicken and lamb kebabs. You can get ’em in a roll, with a rice or salad bowl, or even put three on a grill platter. (And FWIW, they’ve got veggie stuff, too.) Now I wouldn’t normally choose just one meat when I could have three, but this is body by lamb, bro, so I’m gonna go with a medium lamb tikka curry in a rice bowl:

Now, first of all, when you order something “medium” at a food-court, you expect it to be white-people spicy, but this definitely had a decent kick. They give you about 7-8 chunks of meat, mixed with curry sauce, basmati rice, and a side cucumber/tomato salad that cools things down a bit. And for $12.99, this is not a small bowl, either! But you know I still had some room for samosa sliders, son!!!

Now, I dunno whose idea it was to put a samosa between two buns, but give that man a Nobel Peace Prize in Flavourtown! These hot ‘n crunchy flavour pockets, stuffed with peas and potatoes, are totally slammable in this hand-held format. They’re two for $8.99–or you could get 20 for 90 bucks, in case you had to feed an entire cricket team, or something…