Though each restaurant prepares these dishes in a slightly different manner, they all stick to a basic formula. First arrives papadum, thin bean wafers served with various chutney sauces. Typically, two sauces are served. One is a spicy, green sauce, and the other is a sweet brown sauce. Along with these sauces, red onions are served to top the papadum.
Appetizers usually consist of banana fritters, meat or vegetable and samosas.
Next comes soup, which is usually mulligatawny, a mildly spicy lentil soup. For the main course, one has a choice of chicken, lamb, beef, vegetables or Tandoori chicken over rice. Finally, for dessert, one can have coffee or rice pudding. It's nice to get a variety of different foods.