Through
OzBargain I find out about a $10 off
Delivery Hero coupon code for new customers (still valid by the way, until September). I've ordered from Menulog and Eatnow before but never from Delivery Hero, and so with this coupon code, I decided to try it out. The other times I ordered delivery food I always had Italian (pizza and pasta) because the only other places available are Indian and my dad doesn't really like Indian. But we went to an Indian place a couple of months ago (using a voucher of course) and it was actually pretty nice. And since my dad's away right now, my mum and I decided to eat Indian.
There were about ten Indian places I could order from on Delivery Hero and from those I picked out the ones with $0-3 delivery fee and from those I looked at the price of the menus and decided on
Delhi Diner in Epping. It was the only place with no delivery fee to my house and the dishes were also the cheapest compared to other places (although I can't properly compare price without comparing serving size). I knew absolutely nothing about this restaurant but decided to give it a go.
My order:
I realised straight after ordering that I forgot to go through
Cash Rewards for the bonus 8% cashback. If anyone decides to order delivery food through Delivery Hero after reading this post, don't forget about Cash Rewards (also if ordering from Groupon, Livingsocial, Woolworths, Appliances Online etc).
I was given an estimated delivery time of 6:04pm but the delivery man was kinda late, more than twenty minutes I think. And I was starving! He just dropped off the plastic bag with the food then rushed off, to deliver more food I guess.
The plastic bag of food
The food laid out
The vegetarian tandoori platter, supposed to be three different vegetarian dishes combined but I don't know which is which. The thing that looks like a vegetarian patty (which might be the vegetable seekh) was apparently very salty (according to my mum that is, I didn't eat it because I'm not supposed to eat salty food). Also the roasted vegetables had lots of burnt edges but maybe that's just to do with the cooking method. Otherwise quite good. I haven't really eaten many varieties of cheese in my life but was pleasantly surprised by the cottage cheese. The most important thing, it's not salty! (My mum thought it was tofu when she first saw it, wouldn't believe me when I told her it was cheese)
Butter chicken on the left (apparently the most popular dishes at all Indian places), mutter paneer on the right. Both were very nice but I prefer the butter chicken. When I ordered the food I chose 'hot' for the butter chicken and 'medium' for the mutter paneer but they were about the same spiciness as each other and probably mild-to-medium. Could have been spicier.
Plain and garlic naan (there are bits of garlic stuck in the garlic naan but not much difference in taste, just more expensive). Just eating the naan made me almost full even before starting with the rice. Preferred what I ate last time at the other Indian place, which my bother said was naan but the menu said was roti. Maybe I'll try the roti next time since they have that too.
Overall, was satisfied with the food. My mum said it was much better than the Italian food we usually order, less oily. We both had too much to eat that night for dinner we both had the leftovers the next morning for breakfast and we have leftovers of those leftovers. Not bad for $30! Highly likely that I'll order from this place again since this place seems cheaper than all the other places.
