Life in the Lower Mainland (BC, Canada)

I tried their "Roti Prata with Curry Chicken" special meal ($13.75). What they served was some kind of roti, but it certainly wasn't Malaysian style roti. In fact, the roti looked suspiciously like supposedly  Indian style roti you can get raw in the frozen food section of Superstore . You can sit pretty much anywhere in Crystal Mall while waiting for your order because they give you a beeper that sounds an alarm when your order is ready.

Everything on the menu is under $10! Just one main at Amay's House can see you pretty full. It's a mom-and-pop restaurant in a clean restaurant in a somewhat dingy looking older neighborhood. Not posh, but good dine-outs can lurk anywhere, so be careful about judging a place solely by the decor. I have no idea what Burmese food is supposed to be like, so this won't be a post about what's authentic, only what's tasty. And although Burmese food is the draw here, there are other items that look familiar from elsewhere in South East Asia, such as laksa and mee goreng . Also, "curry" is a tricky word with as many variants as cultures that have their own variants, so any comparison of Burmese curry to any other curry you may have had is a fallacious one. You can say "I prefer Indian curry", but that's really comparing apples to oranges. The various curries we tried (Beef Lemon Grass, Mutton, and Lamb) were more like stews and there was basi...