NASS FAST FOOD
20 September 2007 evening, I was too lazy to cook, so we went out for quick fast food meal.
We went to a fast food joint called Nass on Stratford Road, in Balti Triangle. I think it is relatively recent, maybe open since last year. It has a kitchen facing to the street, and it was what attracted me.
This fast food shop has a dining room inside. We can have the same food in the dining as well as to take out; the price is exactly the same. In theory they come to take orders at table, but when we were there, there was no waiter in sight and we had to go to the counter to place order.
The dining room is by no standard elegant, but table cloth is real cloth, and clean-ish.
I decided to go for Chicken Tawa meal which was featured on the menu sheet. D was to have kebab, but when he went to place the order, the guy at the counter told him it would be too much as chicken tawa meal was meant for two people
In the photo right is the chicken tawa. According to my Pakistani friend, tawa means a flat frying pan used to make chapati. I don't think this iron pan can be used to make chapati, but I guess it is meant to be a tawa.
We could decide how hot it should be. D, when he asked how hot we liked it, scared of too much chili, said "mild". It was not particularly tasty nor disgusting, just average. It would be better with a little bit of chili. Shame (it is not their fault).
This is the salad that came as a part of Tawa meal, and a dish of chips that we ordered separately. Cucumbers and shredded cabbage were dry. Chips were average frozen variety.
The menu promised us that raita would be included, but it did not materialise.
These are two nan bread that came with Tawa meal deal.
They were pretty thick and soft; not bad. But two turned out to be too much, so we brought us one home.
It was not a great meal, but we were surely stuffed. The bill came to £8 or so. Cheap. What lowered the price is the tawa set, £6, for the tawa, two naans, salad, and 1 can of coke. But not everything is cheap at Naas. For example, 1 boiled rice cost whipping £3. So if you order a curry and rice, it costs you £8, as much as at any balti house, or more.
As the price was affordable, we left more or less happy, but it is not a kind of place we feel keen to return, although by no means it is to avoid.
The nan we brought home became pizza. lol. The joint sells also pizza. I wander if they use the same dough as for naan.
Address: 373 Stratford Road
