tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33565440690413477112012-01-29T23:17:47.764-05:00Westchester and New York Indian restaurant reviewsreviews of Indian restaurants in the Westchester and New York area (mostly), and writings on travel and food.food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.comBlogger801100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-53566216208944595762012-01-20T08:28:00.000-05:002012-01-20T08:28:35.979-05:00Trip to Mumbai, Mangalorean food and the Mahesh Lunch Home in Sakinaka, Jan 2012
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As the flight readies to land, the air hostess notices my lit ipod screen and fusses about it needing to be shut down. I tell her that it does not have an on-off switch. Having just finished food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-18774126294688914722011-11-27T18:32:00.001-05:002011-11-27T18:38:48.552-05:00How does a chapati or roti fluff up?
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Many of us are familiar with the way to make a perfect chapati or roti: (i) roll flat a piece of moist dough evenly, (ii) heat one side on a pan, (iii) flip and heat the other side, (iv) then putfood and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-85065552204881226742011-11-17T23:11:00.003-05:002011-11-27T18:44:12.836-05:00Indian food, the Ngram viewer, and some statistics
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I heard food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-63045849993514066442011-10-24T21:23:00.007-04:002011-11-01T23:29:04.114-04:00Neerob, on Starling Avenue in the Bronx
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www.neerob.com/
Neerob is a Bangladeshi restaurant that is part of a block’s worth of Bengali shops in the Bronx, known as “Banglabazaar”. In the evening the small restaurant is crowded with young food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-56458137216705334032011-10-15T07:22:00.011-04:002011-10-15T13:02:59.149-04:00Obergurgl, Zurich, and the Dark Prince of Burkliplatz
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Rail transportation has a distant civility about it in Western Europe, a quietness with which a train arrives precisely on time, the methodical motions offood and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-79524662386632128682011-10-04T22:24:00.003-04:002011-10-04T23:38:58.835-04:00The Pan IIT 2011 Global Conference in New York City
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Registering for the Pan IIT 2011 Global food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-40233302043867228122011-09-23T20:34:00.002-04:002011-09-26T08:20:36.575-04:00Saravanaa Bhavan in the Upper West Side, New York
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413 Amsterdam Avehttp://food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-76070691445687417132011-09-17T09:31:00.002-04:002011-11-01T23:36:19.380-04:00Dosa Cart on Broadway between 115th and 116th Streets near Columbia University, New York City
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There is a Pakistani guy from Lahore who runs a Dosa Cart parked on Amsterdam near the entrance to Columbia, who will make you a dosa as good as any for five dollars. It is a simple dosa with a hot, freshfood and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-22661879985260986312011-09-13T00:06:00.004-04:002011-09-13T00:10:07.729-04:00Pork Ribs with Indian pickle and South Indian spices
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This is a dish that has not been a disappointment in the 4 or 5 times that I have cooked it. I get pork ribs, preferably of the baby back variety. The marinade features an Indian pickle that I food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-37167216457112126342011-08-27T19:35:00.004-04:002011-09-02T18:23:42.665-04:00Conversations with a smartphone
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There is a kind of eager beaver who is itching to touch his touch pad, for nobody clicks any more these days. Conversations with such folks can be stupefying. Follow, for instance this food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-32472057209802579302011-08-23T17:43:00.004-04:002011-08-23T18:03:43.170-04:00Earthquake at the Union Station, Washington DC--lunch at Aditi Indian Kitchen
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I have reviewed Aditi Indian Kitchen at Union Station before, and praised its no nonsense honest fare. Today, I arrived into Union Station on the metro with a few spare minutes for a quick food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-12144829164485662762011-08-08T23:16:00.014-04:002011-08-09T19:59:26.448-04:00A visit to Naulakha, Kipling’s house in Vermont
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In the heart of Southern Vermont, amidst scenery as quintessentially American as can be, there is a house named Naulakha on a hill that is built of wood and sits on a mortared stone base. food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-73305461892691159832011-07-30T23:51:00.005-04:002011-08-21T11:53:00.514-04:00Sakoon, Mountain View, CA
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food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-5931776591297223722011-07-27T02:16:00.003-04:002011-07-28T10:35:36.396-04:00Entropy & D Nu English
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“Sm1s lkn HOT!!!!!” gushed the Facebook comment on a profile picture, the economy of letters so impressive at the beginning, jettisoned in a gust of food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-56427654165782719752011-07-10T14:23:00.001-04:002011-07-30T23:56:07.067-04:00Aditi Indian Kitchen at the Union Station in Washington DC
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Food court, Union Station,Washington, DC
I met an old friend after almost 25 years and had lunch at the Aditi Indian Kitchen, in the food court of Union Station in Washington, DC.
This is a food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-31716514404892016722011-07-04T14:13:00.004-04:002011-07-14T19:36:13.612-04:00Trip to the 2011 North American Bengali Conference (NABC) and Longwood Gardens
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The annual North Americal Bengali Conference (NABC 2011), a major affair attended by several thousand Bengalis from all across the country, took place at the Baltimore Convention Center over the weekend food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-9815469949970951622011-06-13T21:21:00.006-04:002011-06-13T21:46:23.482-04:00When fathers cook
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Supratik Guha
Jhumpa Lahiri has written an affectionate essay in the New Yorker (2009) about her father and his skills at cooking rice. It is a rice that he has made for decades, feeding at timesfood and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-64418575302126250912011-06-05T21:06:00.004-04:002011-06-05T21:07:48.298-04:00Royal Palace
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White Plains, http://www.royalpalacecuisines.com/It would seem that with a retooled menu, royalty has returned to the Royal Palace in White Plains. I used to come here several years back, but the food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-32258550473677706812011-05-30T09:52:00.001-04:002011-05-30T11:21:19.168-04:00Rangoli in New Rochellewww.rangoliindiancuisine.com
When we stepped into Rangoli on a Sunday afternoon, we were the only customers, an effect that beats upon itself in a spacious restaurant creating a sense of loneliness. You wonder whether this is the right place to eat, but the piped music by Kailash Kher and Rabbi brings you back in.
Rangoli has conventional menus (for the buffet), good quality food, the food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-33289149674803690462011-05-17T23:38:00.001-04:002011-05-17T23:40:16.319-04:00Ganesh Temple Canteen, Hindu Temple in Flushing, New York
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(http://www.nyganeshtemple.org/) You will not get a better dosa for 4 dollars than at the cafeteria in the basement of the Hindu temple in Flushing, in New York City. Incongruous in the heart of food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-31970785132367593642011-05-14T11:43:00.001-04:002011-05-14T11:53:44.413-04:00Ramen noodles at La Fiesta in Narita Airport
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This was my first trip back to Japan after the earthquake. Other than a few telltale signs, it appeared business as usual in Tokyo. Power shortages have forced the use of less illumination. food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-78650504631026338172011-04-30T22:54:00.002-04:002011-04-30T22:54:55.372-04:00Mishti Doi, graduate student chicken, archival rice and food moments in the US
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“This is San Francisco, you never know”, said the waiter with a shrug, contemplating the plate of bay leaves and crushed ice he had placed on my table--when I clarified—that what I had food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-88939726893760558682011-04-22T21:42:00.005-04:002011-04-23T17:22:03.185-04:00The 24 wishes of Robert Boyle
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31 E. Main St., Mount food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-16127549247109688462011-04-09T11:36:00.005-04:002011-04-09T13:58:17.271-04:00Dhaba Indian Cuisine, 108 Lexington Avenue, New York City
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http://www.highwaydhaba.com/
We drove to Dhaba for food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-24334611768711360382011-04-01T23:25:00.013-04:002011-04-02T16:03:06.144-04:00Abu Dhabi, conversations with taxi drivers, and the S&D Oyster Company in Dallas
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I remember an arresting cartoon from the nineties offering a birds eye view of toilet stalls in a public men’s rest room, each stall occupied by a seated food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-40086987292176383062011-03-15T23:36:00.022-04:002011-03-18T07:58:41.478-04:00New Orleans
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“You better take a map an’ the directions” said the driver of the rental car bus, pressing a map into M’s hands, when I politely declined his offer for directions. “Cos’ you gon’ get lost, I ‘ll guaranteefood and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-7523881539384286262011-02-22T23:42:00.002-05:002011-02-24T18:36:52.409-05:00Ambadi
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141 East Post Road, White Plains, http://www.ambadi-usa.com/
Ambadi is a small, reasonably priced place close to the Sam Ash music store in White Plains with a few small tables, but mainly geared for thefood and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-14559657202345688532011-02-12T11:15:00.016-05:002011-02-13T15:16:47.636-05:00Trip to Taipei
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Fat Boy Raul with his name crossed out on wall graffiti, lights shining on lights, reflecting off the hoods of bimmers, bouncing off the sidewalks, then food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-3506170510086405992011-01-21T01:18:00.003-05:002011-01-21T01:21:36.178-05:00Shiva's Indian Restaurant, Mountain View CA
http://www.shivasrestaurant.com
“Nice, nice, not thrilling, but nice”, is what Mel Brooks’ character said in the History of the World Part I, and this just about summed up my assessment of Shiva’s. Eight out of a scale of ten, two missing. Shiva’s makes a buttery smooth Seafood Curry, with prawns and sea bass, in a mellow sauce of coconut milk and curry leaves, a “Madras” curry kind of food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-28941167669227379592011-01-01T23:58:00.002-05:002011-08-21T11:49:58.133-04:00Mana-Thai Cuisine
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360 N Bedford Rd , Mt Kisco, NY (914) 244-8588
Years ago, if you wanted decent Thai food in Upper Westchester, you had tofood and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-15276031746152533332010-12-23T21:08:00.002-05:002010-12-23T21:08:27.508-05:00University admissions and a 12th. grader
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“We want the right fit for our university” said the earnest looking young lady, a student who had been propped up in an auditorium to address the assembly of parents and prospective students food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-1246281718786382522010-12-16T21:53:00.003-05:002010-12-28T16:32:43.543-05:00Bollywood Bistro
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68 Wheeler Ave, Pleasantville, http://www.bollywoodbistro.net/
Bollywood Bistro was started in downtown Pleasantville a few years ago and this is about the second or third time that we have visited, food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-77453232299642905822010-11-27T12:03:00.007-05:002010-12-27T20:23:12.963-05:00Calcutta Wrap and Roll
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465 Ardsley Ave., Ardsley, http://calcuttawrapandroll.net/
Last night we visited this new place in Ardsley, conveniently located off the Ardsley Avefood and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-25173684619260103192010-11-26T22:52:00.003-05:002010-11-27T12:05:02.757-05:00Jhal Muri
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It is a cloudy Thanksgiving afternoon in upstate New York, the season's first light snowflakes mixing in with a slight drizzle. Making fudge brownies food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-56909029332316240842010-11-07T16:40:00.007-05:002010-12-28T16:27:59.631-05:00Vatan--vegetarian restaurant in Manhattan
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409 3rd Avenue, www.vatanny.com
It was Diwali, the festival of lights, and U was not having her usual dinner this year. I wanted a somewhat offbeat, but good Indian restaurant in the city to mark food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-41559051625329568012010-10-20T21:47:00.003-04:002010-11-06T16:55:27.210-04:00A brief trip to Japan again, October 2010
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The onset of fall is always a wondrous time to drive out of Westchester County for travel. The early morning is chilly, though not unduly so, the light has started to turn, as have the colors on food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-82963054828104756602010-10-02T19:34:00.004-04:002010-10-03T13:20:41.116-04:00Quinoa, East Indian food, Bengali food, and the village life
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I love rice, the staple of choice for the consummate Bengali. A pointed heap of rice occupying a good fifty percent of a brass dinner place, a little hole indented into the top to pour gravy, ghee or dal food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-22412363311296471882010-08-16T22:13:00.003-04:002010-09-06T20:51:58.561-04:00Kewpie’sLala Lajpat Rai Sarani (Elgin Road), Kolkata
In a formal Bengali meal fit for an traditional household with a professional cook in the kitchen, you get an elaborate multi-course meal containing several vegetable preparations, at least three fish dishes, a couple of meat dishes, followed by dessert. You would sit with a metal dining plate surrounded by a constellation of small bowls containing afood and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-14449736208117194522010-08-11T01:04:00.001-04:002010-08-14T05:11:18.471-04:00Guwahati & Shillong Jul Aug 2010I was waiting for the lady behind the counter at the coffee shop to finish counting her money and close her previous transaction, but the man behind me seemed to be in a hurry. “Hello—are you waiting to order?”. “Yes”, I say. “Well, you should go ahead and place the order, she is just counting her money—she can hear you”. He was an alpha male type, in a black suit and in a hurry. As I waitedfood and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-72505300313928741832010-07-18T23:52:00.006-04:002010-07-23T09:16:14.391-04:00World cup US styleA few minutes after the finals between Spain and Holland ended, I took a walk to the Starbucks in Mt. Kisco, 2 miles down the road. On my way back, two cars rolled by, festooned with flags and the colors of Spain, music blaring, its waving occupants cheered on by passing motorists. Remarkably, within an hour of the event, everybody around me was aware of its outcome. I have been watching Worldfood and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-79419901872533545552010-07-05T20:57:00.007-04:002010-07-25T17:55:53.876-04:00Pleasantville Farmer's MarketThe young man had the windblown hair, fresh faced American look from novels about the American Midwest. He was selling fish from under the tent of his store at the Saturday morning farm market while M and me were debating on the mackerel fillets. He asked us where we were from, then caught us off guard as he continued his conversation in Bengali. Fresh fish from Long Island and the eastern food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-58962798256200243272010-06-27T23:12:00.008-04:002010-12-27T21:06:59.740-05:00Zitoune Moroccan Cuisine on bellydancing nightMamaroneck
http://www.zitounerestaurant.com/home.html
It was on Father’s Day that we headed off to Zitoune, a Moroccan restaurant in Mamaroneck, with A&U. The four of us have eaten together outside for decades—as carefree undergraduates under the open starry skies of Far East in Kharagpur, at Indian restaurants dotting the East Coast with toddlers in tow, restraining eager little hands intent food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-52220914083187890282010-06-16T23:40:00.006-04:002010-07-03T20:17:59.535-04:00Bhavik Groceries130 East Main Street, Elmsford 10523, http://www.bhavikgrocery.com
Bhavik is probably the oldest Indian grocery store in mid-upper Westchester. If you want an immediate primer on South Asian produce and snacks, take about 15 minutes to cruise the rows of well stocked stalls here. Bhavik is a classic example of the kind of small suburban Indian grocery store that has sustained the kitchens of food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-58072688305382520162010-06-04T21:49:00.002-04:002010-07-25T18:09:08.718-04:00Ming Restaurants1655-195 Oak Tree Road, Edison, NJ, www.mingrestaurants.com
Driving down New Jersey Turnpike, one comes across a billboard—“Twitter with Verizon 3G”. A little over a decade ago, this message would have been incomprehensible to the viewer, yet today, decades of technology development has been merged together cheaply so that the end user, without a thought, can twitter on 3G at cents to the food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-19586735382617848592010-05-19T22:33:00.006-04:002010-05-22T09:05:39.168-04:00Hindostanee Coffee House34 George Street, Portman Square, LondonIt has been 9 years that I left my position on The Union that sailed into the London docks in 1801 from Bengal, and 9 years that I am now able to afford some of the pleasantries of life. After the two harsh years of living on Kingsland Road, my fluency with both the language of Bengal and England, my education at the Charity School in Calcutta, and my food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-73602273703689050932010-05-09T21:31:00.003-04:002011-04-17T21:27:31.058-04:00Masala Kraft206 E. Hartsdale Ave, Hartsdale, http://www.masalakraftcafe.com/
Masala Kraft is a strictly vegetarian restaurant in Hartsdale, and on the afternoon of Mother’s Day we were there with our old friends A&U, sans our children, who have now reached the age where their varied engagements, keep them fruitfully engaged, away from their parents. About a year old, it is in the small downtown Hartsdale food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-76211434780329072392010-05-02T23:03:00.002-04:002010-12-27T20:34:03.260-05:00Lalibela Ethiopian Cuisine37 South Moger Ave, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549
www.lalibelamountkisco.com
There was a time in the 1980s and 1990s that almost every Ethiopian restaurant was called Blue Nile, just as every Mongolian eatery would be called Khan’s Mongolian Barbeque. Such were the inroads of ethnic cuisine into America. Lalibela is most likely Westchester County’s first Ethiopian restaurant and we don’t need to drive food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-4629253762813326412010-04-17T16:57:00.000-04:002010-04-17T16:58:01.837-04:00A brief trip to Delhi and Guwahati April 2010A brief trip to Delhi and Guwahati April 2010:It started off a chilly morning which, by afternoon, morphed into a harbinger of summer with the skies blue, and the air warm. M, emerging from this swift and bitter winter like a post hibernating bear, plunged into the garden with both hands at this jewel of an afternoon. As I loaded my bags, she interrupted her work, walking up to the front of the food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-15414933648767038442010-04-02T00:41:00.002-04:002010-04-02T00:45:59.675-04:00Bhaddoloker CheleyBhaddoloker Chheley(the way it was in the 70s and 80s)“Bhaddoloker Chheley”. There are passport phrases in almost all languages. An implicative comment, it is a shorthand that categorizes an entire lifestyle, not much different from a file type tag. Such phrases offer a passport to the holder, to certain entitlements, or lack thereof. Bhaddoloker Chheley in Bengali means son of a gentleman (food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-33175292071488805182010-03-21T23:41:00.007-04:002010-03-21T23:56:02.534-04:00Portland in MarchMy friend Ty was driving me to the Portland International Airport and we swung into the dropoff area for departing passengers. 24 years ago, we had made a similar dropoff run as I left for Los Angeles, and I had returned after all these years to the city where I made my first entry into US soil. There were vivid thoughts to juxtapose to, for the first foreign land leaves behind a pungency of food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-17960822317892425702010-03-20T10:56:00.006-04:002010-12-27T20:50:56.097-05:00Devi
www.devinyc.com
8 East 18th Street
New York, NY 10003-1938
(212) 691-1300
Last night our good friends, A & U, took us out to Devi, an ethnically conscious, Manhattan savvy, Indian restaurant near the NYU area of the city. Devi--in most Indian languages--means goddess, and you will invoke her name a few times in course of the evening. The first will be after looking at the prices on the menu.food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-66395759098817096292010-01-24T22:05:00.004-05:002010-12-27T20:25:32.677-05:00Chutney Masala Bistrohttp://www.chutneymasalabistro.com
4 Main Street
Irvington, NY 10533
With a few new restaurants sprouting in and around Westchester the past few years—Chillichicken in Stamford, the reincarnated Westchester Groceries in Thornwood, and now Chutney Masala—a two year old restaurant in Irvington, diners have a wonderful choice of evolving Indian food around the area. We visited Chutney Masala for food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-63259479379924162242009-12-13T19:07:00.006-05:002010-04-24T10:51:14.814-04:00Chillichickenwww.chilichickenct.com19 High ridge roadStamford, CT 06905(203) 977-0400ChilliChicken is a new restaurant that has opened up in Stamford, CT, at the site of the old Tawa restaurant, only a 20 minute drive through the backroads from Chappaqua. Chilli Chicken serves Indo-Chinese food, and as its name implies, originates from the food served in chinese restaurants in India. Set up by waves of food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-35192890905356623702009-12-07T23:04:00.008-05:002009-12-13T17:50:28.817-05:00A trip to Tokyo in NovemberThere is a cocoon like sense of safety travelling in a large jetliner ten thousands of feet above the earth as the flight path traverses rugged mountains, permanent ice formations and bleak landscapes. Mid-flight, I survey a Siberian landscape, looking for signs of life and motion on a desolate, ice filled expanse of crinkled white merging into the distance, into the glare of the sun. It is a food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-74612858193186217992009-10-15T23:05:00.004-04:002009-12-13T17:47:32.943-05:00Indian Ocean at the BB King Blues ClubIndian Ocean performance Oct 09 2009BB King Blues Club237 W 42nd StNew York, NY 10036-7201(212) 997-4144I have always enjoyed the band, Indian Ocean, ever since I picked up one of their CDs in Palika Bazaar in New Delhi, where I had gone to try to find some music by Junoon. So when our close friends A&U told us that Indian Ocean was going to be playing at the BB King Blues Club in Times Square, food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-32044467959636787512009-08-30T22:47:00.003-04:002010-12-27T20:57:53.135-05:00Kabab King and Alauddin Sweet MeatsKabab King Diner
7301 37th Rd.
Jackson Heights NY 11372
Phone: 718-457-5857
Alauddin Sweet Meat USA
3714 73rd Street
Jackson Heights, NY 11372
(718) 424-6900
Rajbhog Sweets and Snacks
72-27 37th Avenue Jackson Heights,NY,
I visited Jackson Heights, Queens, after 16 years. And I went back there in a few weeks, and then again in a couple of days. The two blocks around are a little slice offood and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-2958947940658309792009-07-18T12:23:00.001-04:002010-06-05T19:43:01.809-04:00trip to India and Bangladesh July 2009It is late in the night, Mumbai is emerging from a flooding storm, and I am on the road to Pune, 130 kms away. I have just landed from a flight from New York and it has been tiring. After an hour, we have cleared the clutter of Mumbai and climbed onto the Mumbai-Pune expressway—six fast lanes that thread through the western ghats in a combination of well banked roads and cavernous tunnels. Thefood and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-30178236332943591932009-06-21T00:42:00.002-04:002010-12-27T20:44:28.558-05:00BukharaBukhara Grill New York Indian Restaurant
bukharany.com
217 E 49th St
New York, NY 10017-1501
(877) 285-4272
Net: Go here for Indian grilled/tandoor food—this is close to what you will get at the best kebab places in India.
A surefire way to get a conversation going, when I meet Indians residing in Manhattan, is to tell them that I have never been happy with the authenticity or quality of food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-52622179088285167772009-06-13T22:23:00.006-04:002011-08-20T14:39:24.161-04:00ShirazShiraz Restaurant
81 E Main St
Elmsford, NY 10523
(914) 345-6111
Great lamb shank, spotty service.
Shiraz is the first Persian restaurant that I have seen in Westchester, located at the site of the old “Oki-Doki”, a Korean restaurant that closed down some years back. The first time we went to Shiraz, on a Saturday night with the economy less than healthy, the manager informed us that he food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-4289610794925363892009-04-11T16:50:00.003-04:002010-04-24T11:00:09.393-04:00A brief trip to Seoul A brief trip to Seoul (April 2009):There is a familiarity in the air common to all Asian cities. Something in the quality of the light, the dilute haze of the atmosphere, the pressing density of population mixing in with gasoline exhausts, that conspire to make your skin and nose feel different. Scientifically, I cannot explain it. Yet this is how I feel as I step into the morning pedestrianfood and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-82583013832952934392009-03-27T17:37:00.000-04:002009-12-13T17:50:28.817-05:00A trip to Pittsburgh I am headed toward downtown Pittsburgh in a cab, getting a crash course on traffic patterns. I learn that it took the cabbie 30 minutes to get to the airport early in the morning. I learn about the roads you ought not to take when rush hour threatens, the number of rides you can expect in a 16 hour day, and received options for three routes to the Convention Center from my hotel. I hear thatfood and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-1778527098679375182009-02-28T20:34:00.002-05:002010-12-27T21:06:30.873-05:00Kati Roll CompanyThe Kati Roll Company99 Macdougal Street
(between Bleecker St. and West 3rd St.)
New York, NY 10012
On one of our rare visits to Greenwich Village , we dropped in for an early dinner at the Kati Roll Company, one of the older roll places in New York City. Kati Rolls started in Kolkata, at a place called Nizam’s on the backstreets of the Esplanade area. Legend has it that a take-out food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-84806984417499883922009-02-20T08:19:00.000-05:002009-12-13T17:50:28.818-05:00A short trip to LondonFeb 02-04, 2009: I have landed in London on the day of its worst snowstorm in 18 years. It is night and Heathrow airport is covered with a blanket of snow, looking numb with the weariness that cold and snow can bring. There are makeshift arrangements for passenger transit, officials operating doors as sluice gates to route foot traffic so that departing and arriving passengers do not food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-66742955419249823542009-02-03T05:31:00.001-05:002011-06-04T18:58:06.196-04:00Jaipore Royal India Cuisine Jaipore Royal India Cuisine280, Rt. 22, Brewster, NY 10509
Telephone: 845-277-3549The name Jaipore Royal India Cuisine turns me off. I have visions of sahibs, fresh off the elephant, majestically astride dead tigers in sepia toned black and white prints, saying jaldi jaldi to the poof of the magnesium flare that lights up the photograph. It is a name that is a cliché for Indian restaurants. food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-39606255069488746652008-12-03T15:27:00.001-05:002010-04-24T10:56:46.942-04:00Ichi-RikiGood Ramen in Westchester Ichi-Riki (914) 592-2220 1 E Main St, Elmsford, NY 10523 I fell in love with Ramen noodles twice. The first time was as a graduate student, when Ramen meant the cheap, boiled instant noodles that I bought in packs from the 32nd Street market in L.A. circa the mid-eighties. The second time was last year, during trips to Japan, exposed to the real Ramen noodles food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-62261772835068938202008-11-16T18:57:00.002-05:002010-04-24T10:58:16.115-04:00A short trip to Dallas Nov 10, 2008: This is the first trip that I am making since the stock market crash and I hope that the traffic at the airport might be a bit lighter. The Fall colors have been gorgeous this season and I drove down the Parkway in an autumn afternoon when the sun streaked through woods in the process of being shorn from their leaves. It is a golden glow in the air that Autumn disburses tofood and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-29905414800929415922008-09-01T11:36:00.001-04:002010-04-24T11:00:52.876-04:00Travelogue, trip to India Aug 19-31Aug 19-21: This is the first time that I am taking the new Air India non-stop to Mumbai, following in the footsteps of M and the boys who left on Saturday and are now in Kolkata. I am looking forward to this trip. Fourteen hours non-stop to Mumbai. Spend the night at a hotel near the airport, where I have a business meeting to take care of, followed by an early morning flight to Kolkata. Ifood and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-85462396663503709022008-05-08T18:34:00.002-04:002010-04-24T11:06:32.249-04:00Silver Tips TeaSilver Tips Tea3 North BroadwayTarrytown, NY 10591 Telephone: 914 332 8515 www.silvertipstea.com Tarrytown, the past decade, has undergone a downtown revival of sorts. It began with the arrival of a few gourmet stores, like the Korean grocery store in the mid nineties, and now is actually a wonderful place to spend a bit of time. Right around the crossing of North Broadway (Rt. 9) and food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-22177047239680781182008-05-06T20:08:00.002-04:002010-12-27T20:49:01.308-05:00SaravanaasSaravanaas Restaurant
81 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY, 10016.
(Corner of 26th street and Lexington)
Tel: 212-679-0204, 212-684-7755
http://www.saravanaas.com/index.htm
A few years ago I ate at the Saravanaas Bhavan in Connaught Place, New Delhi and one of my hosts—a transplanted Tamilian in Delhi—explained to me the significance of this restaurant, that it was the Dehi outpost of a famed food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-19560232497039451382007-03-16T19:52:00.001-04:002010-04-24T11:02:36.308-04:00Oh! CalcuttaOh! Calcutta Nehru Place ICC Building, next to the Intercontinental Hotel New Delhi When I think about Delhi restaurants I dwell back to the early seventies when, as a child, we went to Nirula’s for a “tutti-frutti” ice cream. My mother went there as a student at Miranda House, and now visited as a young mother. Delhi has changed a lot since. Here we were, a group of mostlyfood and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-25165414604292768612007-03-16T00:19:00.006-04:002010-12-27T20:32:09.783-05:00Passage to IndiaPassage to India17 Main St., Mount Kisco (914) 244-9595 www.passagetoindia.us Sitting at the lunch buffet the other day at The Passage to India, I was reminded of what Indian restaurant food used to be like in the early nineties in the US. I pondered three meat curries in front of me—red, slightly redder, and slightly less red. Soggy pieces of meat floated around, assaulting the tongue with food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-64407090064494768122007-03-16T00:19:00.005-04:002010-12-27T20:26:46.816-05:00CoromandelCoromandel Cuisine of India30 Division St.New Rochelle914-235-8390www.coromandelcuisine.com Two visits to Coromandel in New Rochelle and I am bewildered, as one is with a bright, but undisciplined child. Are these the makings of a brilliant, but moody cook? Was that Calamari, blended in with spices that made this dish feel a fabric of Indian cuisine for hundreds of years? But did not those food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-51573033252187356742007-03-16T00:16:00.001-04:002010-04-24T11:03:48.282-04:00BabuGreat food in the Village Babu 99 Macdougal St. (near Bleecker St.) Greenwich Village Indian food from Bengal in New York City With some exceptions, Indian restaurants in this country often attempt at evoking the grandeur of their Persian or British rulers. However- if you are tired of seeking Heat and Dust Chicken or Lamb Shah Jahani, and want to bypass visions of food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-36400821251362167402007-03-16T00:15:00.002-04:002010-12-27T20:30:54.509-05:00Mughal PalaceMughal Palace16 Broadway
Valhalla, NY 10595914-997-6090(Opp. Valhalla train station)www.mughalpalace.com Started a few years back by a couple of ex-Malabar Hills employees, this restaurant is strategically located right opposite the Valhalla train station. The food is imaginative—one of the best in Westchester—and has consistently improved over the past one and a half years that I have food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-87256197046942710682007-03-16T00:14:00.002-04:002010-12-27T21:00:40.754-05:00RoomaliRoomali97 Lexington Avenue
on 27th street
New York, NY-10016212-679-8900http://roomali.tripod.com/index.html Indian takeout fast foods have finally come to Manhattan—first with the Kati Roll Company, and now Roomali. I grew up on the beef rolls at Nizam’s in Calcutta, and knew (and hoped) that it would only be a matter of time when this caught on here. Located right at the crossing of Lexingtonfood and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356544069041347711.post-80010121150398032162007-03-16T00:12:00.002-04:002010-06-08T19:07:43.445-04:00Westchester GroceriesWestchester Groceries (a.k.a. Kabab Express) 546 Commerce Street, Thornwood, NY 10594 (914) 747-0445 Thornwood, NY 10594 As one drives by a lazy turn along a nondescript stretch of Commerce Street, there is a run down store with a small parking lot by the name of Westchester Groceries, with a sign underneath saying Indian food. Walk in there, and you see what looks like a food and travel writingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14813452017838046915noreply@blogger.com0