Hello India

I had takeaway from Hello India and when I walked in it seemed really promising, it was almost full the aroma was pleasant and I could see a few Indians sitting here and there (which is usually a good sign). I went home and started eating. First I had the Chicken Biriyani which was really quite good (and better than most in my opinion) it had lots of vegetables and was seasoned quite well. After this I had the Butter Chicken (butter chicken should always be ordered when trying a new Indian place, it’s kind of like a cuisine benchmark), and it was extremely sweet. There is no other way to put it, it was halfway between the sweetness of a main course and dessert. This was quite disappointing since the Biriyani was quite good. Even with the butter chicken fiasco Hello India was better than most Indian restaurants I have been to in Brisbane but it is still not close to my favourite Indian Restaurant (in Brisbane), Aamaya.

Hello India! It’s a pleasure to meet you! What’s that, you forgot our raita? *begins to rage* no, no. It was an honest mistake. Just shake it off.
Okay that was a bad way to start. Well it wasn’t, I was right annoyed. I mean, why bother even getting Indian if you don’t get Raita?! Let me tell you how this happened. We rang up to order some take away. This was our first time ordering from this place and we got kofta and vegetable korma, as well as cheese and garlic and cheese and spinach naan. Everything is served with rice by the way, a definite plus in my books. Anyway, there’s this deal where you can get two naan breads and raita and some other thing, so we decided that was great and we’d get it. They rang us back after we placed the phone order to say we couldn’t. Would have been more helpful to tell us in the first phone call, but okay. So we said, well can we just get the two naan’s and the raita. Then we got home and there was no raita. It was upsetting.
So while the service was a little annoying the food was great. Really tasty food, and I’ve not been a big fan of Indian in the past. The vegetable korma was really nice. Had a lot of flavour to it. We got mild so I’m not sure about the heat levels, but flavour was definitely a win. And the naan’s were to die for. I mean, always better with raita but they tasted amazing.
I will be going back to this place — just ensuring our raita get’s put in. It’s goodbye for now, India.