If Indian food is an acquired taste, it is certainly becoming Jakarta's `flavor-of-the-month'. There are already several good Indian restaurants in town, and now another new one is due to open shortly, on Kemang Raya's `Restaurant Mile'.

To be sure, India tempts the senses with an entire range of subtle tastes and flavors, and some that are not so subtle as well! The fallacy that Indian food is always "hot and spicy" is just that…