Fiji Style Desi Dhaba is located in the main town of Liverpool also known as Little Fiji as majority of the Fiji Indian population are found in Liverpool. This also means that its filled with many fiji indian style restaurants. If you have read the About Me section of the blog you may have realized that im actually from Fiji. :D
As it's been ages since I've tried authentic Fiji Indian food and since i was with The Boy who has never ever tried authentic fiji indian food i felt it was a great time to relive those yummy moments and also get to see if the fiji indian style food of Fiji has the same taste in Australia.
So off we went on the hunt for a good restaurant to find authentic Fiji Indian food.
We found one restaurant but it looked really small and uninviting plus had a strange fishy smell as we entered plus there was no one inside the restaurant as well. Seeing this i crossed my fingers hoping that we find a restaurant soon because i was really hungry. As we passed 2 more streets we finally found Fiji Style Desi Dhaba. There was no customers inside the restaurant but it was only 6pm which isnt really dinner time for us Indians. Plus the restaurant looked pretty neat and clean and there actually was actually a waitress there to greet us and show us our seats.
As soon as the waitress gave us our menus i quickly flipped throughout to find the authentic meals which i had eaten in Fiji to make The Boy try. i did find some dishes such as Bara(fried lentil croquettes,similar to a falafel),Tin fish curry,duck curry and chopseuy.
So we ordered chicken chopseuy (as The Boy's never tried it),Goat Curry thali (because i love goat),lentil filled roti (because The Boy was keen) and chai (because The Boy needs his tea.).
The chicken chopseuy came first and might i say the serving was very big and piping hot.There was lots of big juicy chicken pieces and the right amount of hotness from the slices chillis.And it was exactly how i remembered it when i tried it in fiji plus The Boy enjoyed it as well.
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Chicken Chopseuy with Rice |
Next came the goat curry thali with daal filled rotis,okra curry,dhal and salad. I was slightly disappointed with this dish because the serving was very small especially the main dish which was the goat curry. I put that aside and set my hopes up on the taste hoping it tastes fabulous. And might i say the goat curry was the best. It was very well cooked and very soft to chew. It came on the bone but i didn't mind that as we normally eat meet on the bone at home. It was spicy and very well seasoned. I only hoped there was more. The okra i found wasn't cooked that much and was very very slimy. I prefer my okra curry to be well fried and spiced but this was lacking in flavor. The dhal was good and not thick and the rotis were great. Soft and fresh and just slightly chewy however the flavor of the curried dhal in the filling i couldn't really taste that much.
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Goat Curry Thali (from left clockwise: goat curry,okra curry,roti and dhal) |
As i was still hungry and wanted to taste that yummy curry flavor again i asked the owner if we could order chicken curry but in a bigger bowl. After waiting around 15 minutes she came out with out curry and roti and as soon as i saw it i was greatly disappointed. The bowl wasn't even that larger then the thali bowl maybe just by 2 cm. Plus the chicken curry was filled with odd bone pieces like the neck which i don't normally eat. So i gave the chicken curry to my bf to eat while i continued digging into the goat. I did however try a little bit of the chicken curry and it wasn't tasty and flavorful as the goat. The soup of the chicken curry was very oily as well.
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Chicken curry with roti |
After we finished our meals The Boys masala chai came and may i say there wasn't really much masala in the chai. It tasted like they used a tea bag to make the chai instead of using fresh chai masala which is the
traditional way of making chai.
traditional way of making chai.
In conclusion i found the Fiji Style Desi Dhaba's Goat curry the best and there rotis very nice aswell. Just the sizing of the meals were quite disappointing and the chicken curry was not great at all. If you ever visit this restaurant i highly highly recommend trying the goat curry. Trust me you'll be licking your fingers all day and night after you try there goat curry. Therefore i give this restaurant a 2/5 due to small serving sizes,very oily and odd chicken peices used in the chicken curry and the very boring chai. However if i had to rate the goat curry just by itself i would give it a 5/5.
Address:
Fiji Style Desi Dhaba
1/28-34 Railway Street
Liverpool,NSW,2170
Fiji Style Desi Dhaba
1/28-34 Railway Street
Liverpool,NSW,2170