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Punjabi-Canadian comfort food anchors Rick Matharu's dual operation, food truck and sit-down restaurant, on Markham Road in Scarborough, the neighbourhood's established hub for South Asian dining. The kitchen frames its cooking explicitly as a bridge between Punjabi tradition and Canadian palate, a positioning that shapes both the menu construction and the scale of spicing. Butter Chicken, Tandoori Samosas sit alongside Kheer (rice pudding), a dessert presence that signals a kitchen building complete meals rather than single dishes. The Kheer is the calling card: slow-cooked milk-based rice pudding with cardamom and nuts, a labour-intensive finish that most Punjabi restaurants leave off the menu entirely, making it the anchor for why someone crosses town to eat here.