The Taj Indian Cuisine Ltd.

What a great authentic Indian Cuisine. Shared 15 dishes with friends, and each plating was fabulous. Our service was a 10 rating. Thank you for your generous servings and excellent attention to detail. We will definitely visit again when visiting the Soo

So this review will be a 2 parter, first to address the most glaring flaw, the racism. The use of the term Hakka to describe their Chinese fair.See, my wife is Chinese-Hakka. My daughter is thus half-hakka. These are an established people, with over 80 million ethnic Hakkas worldwide. They have their own language, unique culture, and foods. There is a large diaspora in Canada, Thailand, India, Taiwan, and other south East Asian countries. This is something quite google-able. My wife speaks Hakka. My wife's mother is from India, from Calcutta, and my wife grew up with both traditional Hakka and Indian food. There is definitely some blended Asian influences in some dishes shared.Now why would you think I would bring this up? Well, the owner doesn't seem to understand that Chinese-Indian food is not automatically Hakka. He also doesn't think Hakka are a people with their own language or their own customs. I know this, because he told me this to my face, infront of my Hakka wife.Now this wouldn't just be offensive, but he's also conflating Mandarin (and Szechuan with Hakka, which are not mutually exchangeable. Hakka does not mean Indian/Chinese fusion just some Hakka dishes being a fusion dish. Now this normally wouldn't be a problem, some people market use other people's culture to promote an entirely different culture all the time. Look at Mulan, who used traditional Hakka structures to represent an entirely different people. But the fact that when I pointed this out and he assured me that my wife's culture didn't exist, he defended himself stating he had more travel experience than me, and he had 30 years of experience in the food industry, which automatically trumps the 30+ years of experience my wife has, at being her own ethnicity and culture, apparently.Well I can tell you, I also have a lot of travel experience, and from this experience, I can tell you Hakka are indeed a people with a vibrant culture and language. Their food is delicious and bears little resemblance to anything this man has claimed to be Hakka.I ordered chili chicken (laat gao gay in Hakka) and I asked for Hakka style noodles, which he immediately tried to correct to Szechuan or mandarin. Well, the noodles the were fine but they weren't Hakka noodles. I've had a lot of different versions of Szechuan noodles, Hakka noodles and the like from different restaurants. Shout out to old school Kim Kim in Scarborough, and that one Hakka joint upstairs, in downtown Toronto, which name escapes me, which are both ethnically Hakka. Wong in Scarborough is definitely a superior noodle that is less greasy and more filling.As for the chili chicken, I would compare it to a very sweet dog food, which description lists as fried chicken covered with sauce, but I would describe it more as shrivelled up soggy day-old chicken nuggets from Burger King, drenched in sauce that I would say is both salty, yet somehow flavorless.Last I ordered an Indian dessert. My wife particularly enjoys the jalebi, an orange Indian dessert. It's sweet and reminiscent of my wife's childhood, but unfortunately was plagued by being stale, as if they were made a few days ago and left out or in the fridge. Little India in Toronto would be a far better experience for it, but what really rubs the salt in the wound for this piss poor experience is the cost.The cost of the food was 44$ for a single noodle dish, a cup of chili chicken and this dessert. The noodle dish was actually what I expected in term of quantity. It wasn't bad, filled a decent sized container and for the north seemed like what I would expect to spend.Chili chicken (see photo) was about a cup and a half of sauce, chicken and a pathetic amount of peppers for 14.99$ now would I call this worth it? I would have liked to see the container at least half full. It was a rather insulting amount of food for what is essentially 4$ worth of ingredients.Last the Indian dessert was 6$ and was completely unreasonable for what I would call garbage tier Indian fair. Overall, bad showing on their part.

Wonderful dining experience. Chef was so helpful when ordering and made the most flavorful meal! Even a little extra just to try. Complete your dining experience and try the masala tea. A must visit when in SSM.

Another great place for authentic Indian food on Sault St Marry. Best part, it was not oily and not too spicy. You could really enjoy the different flavours. There chicken 65 is something not to be missed.

Absolutely incredible food! The staff are absolutely some of the kindest I’ve met. Top tier service and cuisine! Definitely recommended!!

The place is clean, the waitresses and the owner are very friendly and welcoming! We ordered the fish curry with Naan and their signature mix tandoori, they are all very tested!

We came here for a weekend lunch. Was spell bound by the awesome interiors. There is so much to gawk at while waiting for your food to arrive. This restaurant is truly one of the beautiful restaurants in the Soo. We ordered some Gobi Manchurian, Dosa and Biriyani. The dishes were alright. The Biriyani could have been better as it appeared more like a soggy rice mixture. We were served by Swapna and she was very attentive and took good care of us. Definitely recommend the restaurant if you are in the Soo area and looking for Indian food.

Amazing food. We were greeted by Walter he welcomed us and said make yourself at home". Manpreet was our sweet server. All eager to please us. Very cultural experience."