{"id":1400,"date":"2013-11-18T15:04:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T07:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2024-06-04T07:06:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T23:06:43","slug":"creasian-taste-of-the-himalayas-restaurant-review-san-leandro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2013\/11\/creasian-taste-of-the-himalayas-restaurant-review-san-leandro\/","title":{"rendered":"CreAsian – Taste of the Himalayas Restaurant Review – San Leandro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UPDATE: THIS RESTAURANT HAS CLOSED<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

I haven’t been to dinner to the new Taste of the Himalayas restaurant, which replaces CreAsian, but I did go to its Grand Opening which included a limited free buffet.\u00a0 From it, I can say that I’m glad to welcome them to San Leandro.<\/p>\n

Taste of the Himalayas is a popular Nepali restaurant in Berkeley.\u00a0 They’ve taken over the old CreAsian space, a much welcome change as far as I’m concerned.\u00a0 While I liked CreAsian, it was too expensive and the menu never changed.\u00a0 Alas, they seem to be wary of their new venture in San Leandro, so they are keeping some old CreAsian dishes in the menu and they are mostly concentrating in serving Indian rather than Nepali food.\u00a0 I imagine that will change as they get more comfortable in San Leandro.<\/p>\n

At the Grand Opening they had three meat curries to taste, their chicken curry (normally $14), lamb curry ($14) and the chicken nauni (not yet in the online menu).\u00a0 The regular curries were OK, the flavors were good and solid, but not compelling.\u00a0 However the meats themselves were spectacular, the chicken was velvety and the lamb was beyond moist and tender, without being fatty.\u00a0 These taste like high quality meats.\u00a0 The chicken nauni, on the other hand, was very, very good (though actually, the sauces mixed together tasted even better).\u00a0 It was similar to a tikka masala, only the chicken wasn’t smokey (and was moist) and the sauce was less sweet.\u00a0 Still, it was very balanced.\u00a0 Taste of the Himalayas does offer a chicken tikka masala ($15), and I look forward to tasting it.<\/p>\n

Both the plain ($3) and garlic ($4) nan were nice, though the fact that they were hot and not burned helped.<\/p>\n

I didn’t try the vegetarian offerings, so I can’t opine, but I heard the vegetable pakora (also not in the menu) was also very good.<\/p>\n

According to their website, they deliver with a $25 minimum order.<\/p>\n

CreAsian – Taste of the Himalayas<\/strong>
1269 MacArthur Blvd.
San Leandro, CA
(510) 895-8028
http:\/\/www.creasianhimalayas.com\/<\/a>
M-Su 11:30am to 3:00pm, 5:00pm to 10:00pm<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: THIS RESTAURANT HAS CLOSED I haven’t been to dinner to the new Taste of the Himalayas restaurant, which replaces CreAsian, but I did go to its Grand Opening which included a limited free buffet.\u00a0 From it, I can say that I’m glad to welcome them to San Leandro. Taste of the Himalayas is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[286,153,295,28,62],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","tag-closed-restaurants","tag-indian","tag-nepali","tag-reviews","tag-san-leandro","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}