Fast Food, Indian-Style

Hurry to Hurry Curry for a takeout lunch that costs only $2.99. You get one meat curry, one vegetable dish and basmati rice. The dishes are displayed at the order counter, so you can choose what appeals from a selection that changes each day. We chose chicken saag--cut-up chicken mixed with spicy pureed spinach--and a combination of eggplant and potatoes. Also on tap that day were chicken curry, goat curry, garbanzo beans, okra and squash curries and a mixed vegetable curry with tofu.

Combination lunch (one meat curry, one vegetable curry and rice), $2.99 at Hurry Curry, 12825 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles. (310) 390-8411.