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As we careen toward the end of another year, with the dawning realisation Xmas is just days away, we’ve wanted a few midweek cheap eats to save time in the kitchen and energy for all the other stuff. I noticed The Taste of Village while driving through Burwood and thought the menu looked interesting with a few Goan curries, like Indo-Portuguese beef vindaloo $17.90). Adapted from a Portuguese dish, vinho e albos, or meat with wine and garlic, the Goans added a lot of chilli to this dish, and the version here is no exception to the rule. However against well-separated saffron rice $5.50) and cooling mint raita $3) and beetroot chutney $3). Warm weather dishes like papdi chaat $10.90) also deploy chutneys over two orderly rows of crisp dough wafers papri) topped with spiced potato, onion, coriander and fresh chilli. With button mushrooms cooked in the tandoor not available, we settle for corn pakoras $9.90) that switch out spinach for sweet corn in the besan-based fritters. They’re taken a bit far in the fryer for my taste. We round out our inexpensive meal with baingan bartha $16.90) where smoky mashed eggplant is brightened by juicy green peas. It’s gentle and tasty, both by itself, and scooped up with rich garlic and cheese naans $4.50/each) presented in easy-to-eat quarters. With BYO meaning you can easily control the price of your wine, this is a solid, well-priced suburban eat with parking spaces easy to find.