21674 Wed Oct 16 10:35:46 -0700 2002 4 1 San Francisco Bay Area 0 78786 Wandering through a local South Asian grocery, I purchased three frozen dinners. The first two , made by Curry Classics (Arch Foods, NJ), Chicken Biryani and Chicken Tokka Makhanwala. Both were very good with the latter providing an excellent complex red sauce bathing generous and tender bite size pieces of chicken. the biryani rice was fluffy and greaseless,quite amazing for a frozen entree. The third dinner vegetable haka noodles (Mirch Marsala,NJ), purports to recreate the roadside "Dhaba" restaurant cuisine known throughout India. This was a delicious and fiery concoction of thin wheat noodles and veges. I was impressed with all three products and would happily purchase them again. they are for example, far superior to the non frozen entress foil packaged at Trader Joes. There are a world of international frozen foods out there. Does anyone else care to share any of their favs? Link: http://www.indianfoodsco.com/products.htm Wed Oct 16 10:35:46 -0700 2002 0 Ken Hoffman 1 78803 Ken, Which shop carried these entrees? They sound like they're worth a try. My nearest Indian grocery store (now called DeeDee's on Moffett Blvd.) seems to be an off-shoot of the vegetarian restaurant by the same name, also in Mountain View (although this may have been sold). I don't recall seeing this there, and I suspect they probably wouldn't sell meat entrees. Thanks. -Peter Link: http://chowhound.safeshopper.com Wed Oct 16 14:53:18 -0700 2002 78786 0 Peter Yee 2 78834 I don't know the name but it was on Stephens Creek Blvd near San Tomas Expway . Small place next to a discount furniture store but there are lots of these places in the gastronomically advantaged South Bay. Wed Oct 16 17:56:36 -0700 2002 78803 0 Ken Hoffman 3 78897 I'll see if I can track it down and report back. -Peter Thu Oct 17 13:38:19 -0700 2002 78834 0 Peter Yee 1 78922 My husband and I really like the Taj and Thai Chef Ethnic Gourmet frozen foods. I have only seen them at "finer" grocery stores (e.g. Draeger's, Piazza, etc. here on the Peninsula). Their chicken tikka masala is quite good -- when you serve it on a "real" plate you *almost* feel like you're in an Indian restaurant. We feel these are better than the Trader Joe's frozen Thai and Indian offerings. Link: http://www.ethnicgourmet.com/ Thu Oct 17 19:27:09 -0700 2002 78786 0 Wendy-san