tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11411104.post4121686543311568009..comments2024-03-24T15:11:59.233+05:30Comments on A simple desultory Philippic: Hack wokJ. Alfred Prufrockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16446127543417759542noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11411104.post-56658616484743368242008-10-16T00:42:00.000+05:302008-10-16T00:42:00.000+05:30More food posts please Uncle Prufrock! Brilliant r...More food posts please Uncle Prufrock! Brilliant recommendations, and now I know where to go when the Chinese food craving hits again.Sukhalokahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839282055547314024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11411104.post-65965245510481214862008-10-13T21:51:00.000+05:302008-10-13T21:51:00.000+05:30Amit, could have enjoyed it more if ALL the places...Amit, could have enjoyed it more if ALL the places were good. They were not.<BR/><BR/>Puloma, after that comment, I'm curious about your blog.<BR/><BR/>Progga, that would need a separate forum. Maybe after I recover from jaundice.<BR/><BR/>Tanu, your friend V Sanghvi mentions the girlfriend. Durgapur may be true too.<BR/><BR/>J.A.P.J. Alfred Prufrockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16446127543417759542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11411104.post-10398482146461292692008-10-09T13:45:00.000+05:302008-10-09T13:45:00.000+05:30When I spoke to Nelson, he always claimed he grew ...When I spoke to Nelson, he always claimed he grew up in Durgapur. In fact, had a Bengali girlfriend he nearly eloped with. Just FYI.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11411104.post-19147172904812448092008-10-05T22:34:00.000+05:302008-10-05T22:34:00.000+05:30Loved this - awakened old memories. How about one ...Loved this - awakened old memories. How about one on a food mission in Calcutta in general, similar to Asterix and the Banquet?Proggahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18071620066169841652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11411104.post-75507068870452545552008-10-05T09:16:00.000+05:302008-10-05T09:16:00.000+05:30JAP- I am relatively infrequent about leaving comm...JAP- I am relatively infrequent about leaving comments on your blogs but am a fairly dedicated follower. This post however is capable of stirring up the shiest of the lot. I am bengali but not from Calcutta, unfortunately. One of my primary reasons to consider my self less fortunate for being brought up elsewhere is the food in Calcutta, as lame as this may sound. I have always maintained that I have not had food that good anywhere. My earliest memories of food in Cal include walking with my Mesho to a place that sold extraordinary chicken rolls by a lake in Tollygunj. I live in New York now, and a very enterprising lady from Cal has attempted to recreate the magic here in a chain called the Kati Roll company. Its extremely popular among Indians in New York, especially since its great drunk-food. But for me, nothing will ever be quite like chicken roll from Pippin. This lady's husband attempted to introduce authentic Calcutta cuisine with a very New York look. I thought it was extraordinary-not only did it have fantastic Bengali food, he had even attempted to capture the burmese and chinese influnces in Kolkatta cuisine. He called it Babu. Sadly, the attempt sank without a trace, or actually not quite- it sank with lawsuit slapped on it by celebrated Italian chef Mario batali, who claimed that this restaurant shared its name with his flagship restaurant 'Babbo'- yeah right! Maybe it was just too early to introduce a sub genre of Indian food to New York.Guess they prefer the dalda laden sub par punjabi food- anyway that is probably the bengali in me talking.<BR/>I am very impressed with the kind of chinese food you've just discussed. I will save your post for the next time I am in Calcutta. Thanks very much for it- you have made the foodie in me very very curious and happy.(Btw the food network in the US did cover Bengali food- I was very pleased- finally these ignormuses have determined what good food is all about!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11411104.post-20633573498145150062008-10-05T03:38:00.000+05:302008-10-05T03:38:00.000+05:30Good piece. I'm sure you enjoyed your research for...Good piece. I'm sure you enjoyed your research for it, eh? :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11411104.post-49184792634669265562008-10-04T15:53:00.000+05:302008-10-04T15:53:00.000+05:30Nalbu, why Chinese alone? You have but to ask.G9, ...Nalbu, why Chinese alone? You have but to ask.<BR/><BR/>G9, I agree about the Ludhiana flavours. As for authenticity, a lot of GENUINE Chinese dishes are quite unacceptable to the Indian palate. I was there for 2 weeks once, and even though I'm willing to experiment, it was Not Easy.<BR/><BR/>AD, we should gorge together when I'm next in Bombay.<BR/><BR/>E Lungs, not Canada alone. Who do you think started the restaurants in NYC named "Tangra" ?<BR/><BR/>J.A.P.J. Alfred Prufrockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16446127543417759542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11411104.post-28561477964968492772008-10-04T14:29:00.000+05:302008-10-04T14:29:00.000+05:30Good wok ,JAP . I do like the food in Mainland Chi...Good wok ,JAP . I do like the food in Mainland China esp the crackling spinach and the dim sums .Did you know that a lot of Chinese who emigrated to Canada run very successful Indian Chinese joints ?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14157665564024320442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11411104.post-53098928106164991482008-10-04T13:53:00.000+05:302008-10-04T13:53:00.000+05:30Kheede paachhe.Kheede paachhe.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17568589728266604281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11411104.post-72366297163218823682008-10-04T01:48:00.000+05:302008-10-04T01:48:00.000+05:30No more Chimney Soup at How Hua? Say it ain't so!I...No more Chimney Soup at How Hua? Say it ain't so!<BR/><BR/>In all seriousness, this is an excellent post. For the first couple of years I was in the US of A, I used to miss Indian Chinese food a lot. Who would have thought that fried rice would be so difficult to come by? My Chinese roommate had never heard the terms chow mein or chop suey and, in spite of being from Manchuria, had never heard of "Manchurian cooking". Her dinner usually consisted of tofu/pork/leafy vegetables in one of a variety of sauces with rice (and chicken claws soup - its exactly what it sounds like). The only restaurant that had chow mein on the menu, served us something not unlike <I>Haldiram's bhujia</I>.<BR/><BR/>However, when I went to an "authentic" Indian Chinese restaurant in Schaumburg, and happily ordered gobhi manchurian with hakka chow, I realised much to my own horror that it was unpalatable. Not because it wasn't what it advertised itself as - in fact it was <I>exactly</I> that. The problem is that I no longer have a taste for the too-greasy extra-spicy curries with too many jostling flavours. This was reinforced when I visited India, and found even the Taj's Chinese distinctly sub-par (by which I mean that it was not really Chinese).Gamesmaster G9https://www.blogger.com/profile/15328781372141149673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11411104.post-3613239670431412622008-10-03T20:47:00.000+05:302008-10-03T20:47:00.000+05:30Saving this page...thanks for sharing such invalua...Saving this page...thanks for sharing such invaluable info. Will surely check these out the next time in Kolkata.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com