Car Trouble Nets Indian Snacks in Richmond Hill Queens

[Glendale is hungry]

This past Sunday morning my car broke down on the way to the flea market in the old theater in the center of Richmond Hill and I had to leave my car parked there overnight.

Instead of immediately heading to Myrtle Avenue to wait for the Q55 to take me back to Glendale, I decided to see if there was anything interesting along Jamaica Avenue and stumbled across Punjabi Restaurant & Sweets between 112th and 113th Streets. If you're in the area sometime and want a little something I think it's worth checking out.

It's just a utilitarian hole in the wall that seems to cater to the local Guyanese-Indian population. I got take out and, after a bus ride home, tried the samosa chat, the allutiki chat and some pakora (all the food is vegetarian). It seems like a great place to pick up an Indian snack—nothing fancy.

It was all delicious though the pakora would have been crunchier if I'd chosen to eat it pre-Q55. I plan to go back to this place and try more things since it's pretty close to Glendale and is very inexpensive.

Unitl then,

Glendale is hungry...

[missmasala]

Punjabi but vegetarian? that's intriguing.

Any interesting items on the menu that you have never seen before?

[Glendale is hungry]

The menu had items whose names I recognized and names I did not recognize though it might just be the spellings.

For example, "protha" might be "parattha." Items on the menu included, tawa roti, tawa protha with small bowl of dahi, tandoori allu protha, tandoori gobhi protha, tandoori muli protha, tandoori roti, tandoori nan, dudh pati, (a drink), indian coffee, indian tea, dahi bhala.

There were also things like "medium bowl of vegetables" and "large bowl of rice with two or three vegetables."

I got there not long after they opened (10AM) and they were still putting out trays of hot food on the counter to be dished out. These were probably some of the vegetables mentioned on the menu. They all looked interesting but I'm not sure what they were.

This looks as if it's a Mom and Pop place. If that's your kind of thing and you're a vegetarian, I think you might like it. Good luck!

ciao,

Glendale is hungry...

[missmasala]

I'm not a vegetarian, but punjabi food is often meat-focused--they do a lot of stuff in the tandoor-so i was intrigued by the concept of punjabi veg food. From what you've described, menu sounds a lot like a typical punjabi one but without the meat, but maybe this means they put even more love into their parathas and vegetables. I'll look into it next time i'm in richmond hill, if i can tear myself away from the doubles.

[janie]

mentioned this place couple years ago..here's the thread...
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/5442...

[JFores]

Nice to see they're still in business. They do very good mango lassi and samosa. Also, their prices used to be insanely low. 25 cents for a roti and 3 veg with roti was something like 4 dollars. I don't know what it is now.

[Glendale is hungry]

The samosas were 75¢ a piece and I'm pretty sure the most expensive thing on the menu was $5. Vegetable pakora was $4 per pound.