A place that deserves to get a lot of attention, but never seems to -- perhaps because it's in Kent? Punjab Sweets 23617 C 104th Avenue SE The sweets are fine, sure, but the (small) counter menu is worth the drive to Kent. This place serves vegetarian street food, without the heavy creaminess of restaurant-style North Indian food, and spiced in a way that doesn't condescend. (It doesn't have to: like Udupi Palace, it seems to serve the Indian-American community almost exclusively.) Also like Udupi Palace, it expands your mental boundaries: it's recognizeably a different style of cooking, although the difference is less radical than the South/North Indian divide. The best food I ate in India, hands down, was dal fry and chapatis at the roadside dhabas where the buses stopped; Punjab Sweets is right in that class, and a lot cleaner. There was an article in the Weekly a while back that complained about the lack of chaat in Seattle (http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0326/food-lead.php). Punjab Sweets plugs the gap, and (to my mind) it actually surpasses Vik's Chaat in Berkeley. Try the chhole bhature, samosas, or the saag paneer.
