As you already know by now, I love to try out exotic dishes in various restaurants and pen down my experiences, of course in my effort to give back to society as people do find restaurant reviews useful 😉 You can consider it my way of contributing to society/CSR or whatever.
Anyways. So I am in Houston and the first thing that I do in any new city is to google for top 10 restaurants for desi food. Yeah, yeah, you might find it funny that why would a person who has eaten Indian food all her life would go exploring for that in US! Well, distance makes your heart grow fonder, sometimes. I truly believe in this adage. I miss the Indian street food, the cacophony of noises emanating from vehicles, vendors, dogs, cows on road and what not! I miss the polluted air, water and the familiar feeling of being at home...Oops, digressing from the topic!
A friend of mine took me to "Nirvana" which is very famous for desi food and is extremely popular not only amongst the Indian crowd but Americans too. Truly enough, I found most of the tables occupied by Americans 😊 God only knows how do they digest the spicey desi food. I heard an interesting anecdote on this. The love of Americans for Indian food is like the craze for "Game of thrones." Either they love it or they detest it. There is no in-between.
So the restaurant owner is an elderly bespectacled gentleman from Bangladesh who loves to chat up with the customers and welcomes everyone with a heartening smile and greeting in Bangla (If you are Bong) I cannot express how I felt after hearing those words in Bangla after almost a year! I always had very close Bong friends at my work place and MBA days, so I do have a soft corner for anything that has even a remote Bong connection. Be it the Bong food, language, culture or songs!! Btw I even got to see a statue of the great Rabindra Nath Tagore in one of the parks in Houston. Was completely floored!!! Digressing from the topic again!
Salmon stuffed Naan! Does it sound crazy?! May be! But believe me, it was insanely delicious!! I have eaten salmon in fried and baked forms before but never stuffed in a naan along with with a variety of spices. The naan was extremely soft and flavorful. We also had batter fried fish, I think it was Tilapia which is the closest in taste to the rohu and pomfret that we get in India. So it was yummilicious! To say the least.
Ambience. The decor of the place was very aesthetic. The environment was peaceful. Apart from a noisy family occupying the table next to ours which enjoyed dropping plates at 5 mins interval to break the monotony of enjoying a peaceful meal, it was a great experience! Definitely, deserves multiple visits.
Anyways. So I am in Houston and the first thing that I do in any new city is to google for top 10 restaurants for desi food. Yeah, yeah, you might find it funny that why would a person who has eaten Indian food all her life would go exploring for that in US! Well, distance makes your heart grow fonder, sometimes. I truly believe in this adage. I miss the Indian street food, the cacophony of noises emanating from vehicles, vendors, dogs, cows on road and what not! I miss the polluted air, water and the familiar feeling of being at home...Oops, digressing from the topic!
A friend of mine took me to "Nirvana" which is very famous for desi food and is extremely popular not only amongst the Indian crowd but Americans too. Truly enough, I found most of the tables occupied by Americans 😊 God only knows how do they digest the spicey desi food. I heard an interesting anecdote on this. The love of Americans for Indian food is like the craze for "Game of thrones." Either they love it or they detest it. There is no in-between.
So the restaurant owner is an elderly bespectacled gentleman from Bangladesh who loves to chat up with the customers and welcomes everyone with a heartening smile and greeting in Bangla (If you are Bong) I cannot express how I felt after hearing those words in Bangla after almost a year! I always had very close Bong friends at my work place and MBA days, so I do have a soft corner for anything that has even a remote Bong connection. Be it the Bong food, language, culture or songs!! Btw I even got to see a statue of the great Rabindra Nath Tagore in one of the parks in Houston. Was completely floored!!! Digressing from the topic again!
Salmon stuffed Naan! Does it sound crazy?! May be! But believe me, it was insanely delicious!! I have eaten salmon in fried and baked forms before but never stuffed in a naan along with with a variety of spices. The naan was extremely soft and flavorful. We also had batter fried fish, I think it was Tilapia which is the closest in taste to the rohu and pomfret that we get in India. So it was yummilicious! To say the least.
Ambience. The decor of the place was very aesthetic. The environment was peaceful. Apart from a noisy family occupying the table next to ours which enjoyed dropping plates at 5 mins interval to break the monotony of enjoying a peaceful meal, it was a great experience! Definitely, deserves multiple visits.
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