On the positive side, there are plenty of people who read this blog regularly who know said twits are full of **it.

everyone’s views and opinions should be respected and abuse will not be tolerated.

oh fuck off.

While your opinions may be considered to be of some value, you all really need to get over your own importance and self indignation!

Someone actually provides to you exactly what you are looking for and you are not HAPPY!

OH poor baby………….

Hi Anna - exactamundo. Not everyone can afford to pay $20 for lunch every day. It’s a real bonus when one can find a tasty/decent/funky meal in the CBD, that is also cheap(ish).

Hey EG - I think the thali is an excellent way of serving food - especially when you are sampling a few different dishes. It certainly saves on washing up five different bowls! Also I think sometimes people can get a little precious about food/dining. Yeah…I’m certainly up there as a card carrying flag bearing gourmand, but crikey people…food is to be enjoyed. And whether I paid $6.90 for it or $60.90 is inconsequential. If I like it and feel satisfied, then I’m happy. One of my better food memories is paying 20c for an empanada in a shack of a bakery in Pisac, Peru. And I’m just glad I didn’t get all snooty and think that because it was cheap, it was below me to eat it.

* ((cough)) jackie’s kitchen ((cough))

I also believe that curries somehow lend themselves to bain maries; the longer it sits there infusing all the flavours, the better it tastes

Finally, a $20 minimum criteria would not allow one to enjoy the sheer pleasure of hawker food on the streets of Singapore, Bangkok or Hong Kong, where I had some of the best meals in my life in less than salubrious surroundings. I note, too, that the celebrated but now sadly deceased R W Apple Jr, of the New York Times, chose a run-down shabby place in Mumbai that serves awesome king crabs as one of his meals that’s worth a plane ticket.

I agree that food should be more than fuel, but as the majority of the CBD student population would attest, cheap meals have their place.

For me, at this place the food makes it a bargain for the price - they could charge a bit more and I’d fairly happily go along with it. And in my case, I don’t have that much money to spare for a lunch meal! It hardly stands up to the “Indian Roast Restaurant” standards I get at home, but it’s good all the same.

bb: fair comments. And I’d usually agree with your opinion.

Anyway I went to a similar place to this a while back. Somewhere a friend invited me to and was personally horrified. As you say they serve the food on tray’s like you are in a jail, out of a festering bain marie.

Ugghh personally it isn’t appealing to me. I’d rather spend $20 and get a plate than $6.90 and feel like I’m in the caferteria at Barwon.

Don’t take offence though… just how I feel.