Jhapat Restaurant Review: Chaat Cafe, San Francisco

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Name: Chaat Cafe
Address: 320 3rd St, San Francisco, CA 94107
Phone: (415) 979-9946
1. What kind of meal did you have?

A. Tiffin, well a “just because we wanted a bite to eat”.
2. What [...]

Price of Indian mangoes biggest barrier

We love talking about two desi things in the US, macacas and mangoes.
While the former gets plenty of face time, the latter has been conspicuously absent since Presidentji deemed that Indian mangoes were ok to be imported into the glorious nation of Amrika. In the meanwhile, in the glorious nation of India, matches made [...]

The Next Food Network Star: Week 2 - Was Nipa eliminated?

Week 2 on TNFNS was pretty exciting. After racing through various nondescript locations in NYC and answering culinary knowledge related questions, the contestants had to pick up or were allocated raw materials depending on their performances in the quiz. Then Dinner Impossible host, Robert Irvine, who looks an awful lot like Mr. Spock from Star [...]

Taste of India frozen dinners

Today was not a cooking day in the household and I was picking up some snacks from the local Publix grocery store. I found these under the frozen dinner section and decided to give it a shot. My mistake. Gravy was too watery to qualify as gravy. The chicken had not soaked in the taste. [...]

Jhatpat Restaurant Review: Dosa Grill, North Brunswick, NJ

Submitted by Anantha
Name of Restaurant: Dosa Grill (http://www.dosagrill.com/)
Restaurant Address: 1980 Route 27, North Brunswick, NJ-08902 (Near the intersection of Route 27 & Cozzens lane)
Restaurant Phone: 732-422-6800
1. What kind of meal did you have?
A. Dinner

2. What kind of food is it?
A. South Indian / North Indian mix

3. What did you eat and drink?
A.
I had -
a. Idly [...]

Announcing new weekly feature: Jhatpat Restaurant Reviews

Submit your own Jhatpat Restaurant Review - 10 simple questions in under 10 minutes now.
The What?
Jhatpat = Hindi slang for “instant”.
UberDesi.com is introducing a new feature: Jhatpat Restaurant Reviews. This section will feature restaurant reviews submitted by our bloggers and most importantly, you, our readers. Staying true to the theme of our blog, we [...]

Jhatpat Restaurant Review: Naan N’ Curry, Berkeley

Submitted by Runa.
Name of Restaurant: Naan n Curry
Restaurant Address: 2366 Telegraph Avenue(between Channing Way & Durant Ave)Berkeley, CA 94704
Restaurant Phone: (510) 841-6226
1. What kind of meal did you have?
A. Ala carte Lunch/Dinner. San Francisco locations open 24 hrs a day
2. What kind of food is it?
A. Pakistani/North Indian fare.
3. What did you eat and [...]

The Gothamist discovers Kurkure

Joe DiStefano of the Gothamist, a New York City based blog, reviews a desi snack, Kurkure. [Gothamist reviews Kurkure]
“Crunchy Cheetos”, he calls themimg: via Gothamist
The word “Kurkure” means “crunchy” in Hindi, and not surprisingly the author compares kurkure to something Americans are more familiar with, (yuck) Cheetos. He proceeds to describe the various flavors, namely, [...]

Rice shortage hits shortage, no need to panic, yet

After curry leaves on the West Coast, it’s the next big shortage to hit desi kitchens in the US is that of chaaval (rice). [1]
Rice shortages hit US desi communityimg: via CNN
Limits placed on sales of several kinds of rice by Wal-Mart Stores Inc’s (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) Sam’s Club warehouse division are meant to [...]