Komala Curry House

Let's go with the full-on compliment first: I have eaten here several times and I think for what you pay, you get one of the fairest portion quanities of a quality, flavorful meal that Honolulu has to offer.How the heck does one find this place?Well, when the ship I work aboard makes Honolulu a port of call, we often can be found along the Ewa side pier at Aloha Tower. The agent that takes care of the vessel has an office in the building and they provide us with parking passes for the parking garage as well. Now, due to my seemingly always ordering items from Amazon, I make it easy on them and I personally go there pick up my stuff. So, one day I was wandering around the lobby and I could smell something that I thought was amazing. Within a minute or two I found where the delightful aroma was coming from. So, I ordered. Two days later (which was how long it took to finish what I bought) I was back. It was more to see if it was a fluke or not. It wasn't. My third time back the owner recognized me and my long goatee beard and curled up handlebar mustache and greeted me with a "Welcome back!" I said - with an all too obvious sarcasm in my voice, "I ate here before, but I am still not sure if I liked it... in fact I ate here twice before... so I am only here to check to see if it is good or not. I'll have my usual. " The man and woman behind the counter smiled/laughed and I got more of their Chicken Korma to go. I departed and ate some and also frozen some. Fast forward... Here it is a few weeks later, the ship is now in Guam and the food aboard my vessel has been really umm... (there truly is no other way of saying this, sorry) it has been shitty. Before heading down to the engine room for my midnight to eight shift, I found something in my freezer that I had forgotten about. I brought it to work and heated it up. OMG it only took one spoonful of it to have me remember the origin of the Chicken Korma. Oh, and it inspired me to write this slightly overdue review. The end game is that, I am so very glad that I froze this meal, as I noted the food has been less than spectacular -- often times this happens because we change out crews. The "B team" is almost always new people that know they are not part of the permanent crew. Sadly, this reflects in their attitude and performance... defined, again, as shitty, but without culinary disappointments aboard the vessel I would have never been blessed with finding this magnificent business.So to the owners, I say thank you so much for continually producing meals worthy of praising as well as recommending to my core base of Yelp friends and Elites and strangers alike. You will never not see me when my vessel visits Honolulu. Keep up the outstanding work.

My new favorite place to come and get lunch during my break!!! I love coming here, I highly recommend getting the ginger tea, the taste is beyond amazing. The service is amazing they are so nice and create a genuine connection with you. Everything about this place is awesome! My go to order is spicy chicken and it is delicious.

Wandered in here for an early early lunch after visiting our cpa upstairs. Open even before 11am! Looks super legit especially the lemon pickles in the fridge that look exactly like the lemon pickles my Indian father in law makes. Anyhow I got the chicken tikka and a veg korma, the hub got a chicken korma and the chickpea something. We also shared a samosa. The samosa wrapper was more chewy like a dumpling rather than flaky and the stuffing was sweet potato instead of potato. I thought it was delicious. The hub also got ginger lemonade that he said was refreshing. The plates came with tons of rice. The food was fine. A bit watery and under seasoned. Maybe good for office workers to be able to go back to work and not have fiery burps. But not what I anticipated when I happily ordered Indian food. You can take your plates to the communal seating area. Parking was validated by our cpa so not sure if this restaurants validates.

This was my first visit to this take-out restaurant in Topa Tower, based on comments from a friend. I ordered a regular lamb curry ($18.50 + tax). The person taking my order said it was spicy ... Good, the hotter, the better.It came with yellow rice and my choice of vegetable ... I opted for something that looked like lentils.It was a generous serving, and the colors were vibrant though perhaps I should have opted for green vegetable as the one chosen had a hue similar to the curry. I ended up covering the rice with both the lamb and the vegetable ... It made for a very tasty (and filling) lunch.Did I like it? Yes, but I think I prefer the sit-down restaurant a few blocks north because: a) it's sit-down, b) there's more variety on the plate, and, c) it's slighter cheaper. However, Komala's portion is larger, offsetting the price difference. I will have to try other dishes before I can say one is better than the other. For now, a conditional recommendation as I would return ... That's a plus in my book.

Butter chicken curry. Quick and easy to order. The chicken was moist and I loved the lemon rice!

I stopped in again since everywhere else had a long line and I figured it give this place another shot. It was much better this time around. This time I had the lamb tikka sprouts salad and lemon rice. What I really wanted was the lamb tikka and chicken korma, the the guy working said that the choice had to be one meat and one veggie.The spout salad went really well with the lamb. Personally I like the salad. It had a really nice crunch and brought freshness to the dish. I love the lamb tikka! Will definitely be back for that.

Komala Curry House is located on the first floor of Topa Financial Center in downtown on Bishop street. It's the same building that houses Aloha Bakehouse & Cafe. I passed by Komala Curry House and wanting to try them for awhile. Unfortunately, my food experience in Indian cuisine is probably none and unfamiliar. I managed to try their Samosa a week ago. It's fried dumplings with curry fillings inside. They were delicious. So today, I tried their mini chicken mild curry with lemon rice for $9. The man who helped me asked what I tried last time. What a friendly guy? He was kind enough to include a scoop of spicy chicken curry for me to try. What a nice complimentary! Honestly, I was afraid that mild curry would be still too spicy for me. I don't do spicy at all. Surprisingly, chicken mild curry was not spicy at all. It was light, with lots of flavors and spices, soft chicken meat, and I think it had light coconut milk. As for the complimentary spicy chicken curry, that was definitely spicy for me but I think if you're a spicy lover, it's probably nothing. I personally think it's good to expand different cuisine in our life time because you never know what you're missing. There's some vegetarian selection here too. If you're unfamiliar with Indian curry feel free to ask. The man is friendly and he'll explain to you. It's in downtown so get there early like 12pm so you can see the entire selection. I wasn't able to get Samosa this time since I went there at 1:45pm.

I work on Bishop street near the Aloha Tower so I usually need to find a food place to eat that's near my work.I wish this place offered a wider range of food like the other Indian restaurants here on this island. The menu is very basic so don't expect too much here.When you go on their website komalacurryhouse.com/tastydishes.html it explains their menu in more detail. But just letting you know that not all items you see on their website will be out to serve so I highly recommend to call in first to check what's available for the day so you don't get your hopes too up when you drop by.But Id say this place is good if you're looking for a quick bite. I ordered:*Regular size plate* -Lemon rice-Chicken korma (coconut) curry-Okra mung bean kulambu-Side order of Vegetable samosa.I really enjoyed their lemon rice and Chicken korma. The lemon rice was very zesty and flavorful from the lemon and the Chicken Korma was very creamy which paired well with the lemon rice.I wasn't sure which vegetable choice to pick but the owner recommended the Okra mung bean kulambu. To be honest, I wasn't really a fan of it because there was too much okra but the broth that it was in tasted decent. I will try something else next time. The vegetable samosa was pretty good to dip it in your curries. Check it out!

LUCKY FINDI came to Topa Financial Center to visit Daisy Cafe! I never thought I would come to this building for a coffee shop. Usually I come to the building to get help with Charles Schwab and my investments. The markets have not been kind to most of us investors last year. Economic triggers have caused a domino effect of change in the world. Inflation, business going under, new ones emerging... all sorts of stuff... But fortunately.... That change has led me to Kamala Curry House! If not for all these changes in the world. They may have been at their old location where I would have never found them and there would be a hole in my heart where their food should be. Everything looked so good. I tried the Lamb Tikka Masal and lightning stuck behind me like some kind of anime scene where the main character gets activated into beast mode. I wanted to keep grinding and grinding and not stop. I will definitely be back for more. I will buy more food tho to make my trip worth it.The small plate was 14, 15 dollars ish.Parking is 4 dollars for the garage but I parked at a meter nearby for a dollar.

I'm lucky this place is in my building as it has a lot of vegetarian choices daily. Not saying it's super healthy because it probably has high oil, butter or coconut milk content=high calorie. But at least it's not processed, feels like home cooking. You're probably better off eating Indian food than Subway. The decadent indulgences: The samosa is amazing you can taste the spices in the potato filling. The butter Naan bread (Paratha) really tasted like butter. I was like omg this is so darn delicious but I feel my butt getting bigger. Eat these sparingly as fried or high fat content + gluten. It's exotic and tasty, reasonably priced. I go here almost once a week.