A friend recently visiting from India told us that fast-food restaurants in India serving Pizzas, Burgers, Croissants etc had mushroomed there and are now wildly popular with the younger generation, particularly in the cities (food courts, malls and even residential neighborhoods). Our friend’s remark on Indian fast-food places came to mind when we stumbled upon […]
New York City is catholic (in the non-religious sense) in its embrace of different cultures, food and people. And sure enough of Halal too. These days it seems as if every direction we turn in New York City there’s a food establishment proclaiming its food to be Halal. The other day as we were walking […]
We bet you haven’t seen anything like this, not even in Incredible India. Bizarre, indeed. Curry Holes on Oak Tree Road On a short, four-mile stretch of Oak Tree Road that runs through the New Jersey towns of Iselin and Edison in Middlesex County, there are now 56 Indian restaurants. Yes, schmucks. We said 56. […]
In our ever persistent zeal to find a spicy exhilarating meal we occasionally explore other cuisines especially Thai and Mexican. Just like our Indian cuisine, Thai and Mexican cuisines are known for spicy food. The other day we were early for a movie at Rave Motion Pictures Ritz Center in Voorhees, New Jersey. So we […]
If JFK’s inaugural address were to happen today, the lecherous bastard would probably say, Ask not what you can eat at Bengali Sweet House, ask why you won’t. Bengali Sweet House is the hidden gem in that Indian cesspool known as Newark Ave in Jersey City, NJ. Given that Indians are weird specimens, be they […]
More often, though, the meat was cooked to the color of wet newsprint, inside and out, and salted so meekly that eating it was as satisfying as hearing a friend talk about a burger his cousin ate. – New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells on Shake Shack Burgers, NYT, 2/21/2012 Here’s what the wise […]