Friday Biryani
So it’s about 11am here. I’m almost ready to hit the Indian street close to my office. Destination : Ambala Dhaba. There are now 3 Ambala dhabas on that street!
The Indian street is actually known as Artesia (the city it is in). Actually the street is Pioneer. Desi stores on both sides for about 2 - 3 blocks. I used to love this restaurant called Rajdhani which used to serve Thali - Indian style. The people here would come and serve you on the table. Oh how I missed this kind of treatment which is so common in India!
Unfortunately, the last three outings to Rajdhani haven’t been good. The food’s turning bad to crap. Which is a pity, cause I really liked that place.
Then there’s this Gujarati thali place, called Jai Bharat. The title “Irritated Bharat” would be a more apt title for this place. It’s run by two brothers (I assume) who have this fucked up crappiest look on their faces as they look at you, right from when you walk into their restaurant to ordering your thali, to eating, to paying the check to leaving.
I mean were these guys born when God was inventing a new English word for us mere mortals called “CRAP”? I stopped doing my regular visits to this place year ago when after lunch, I got up and flipped out my check card.
Now one of the brothers at the counter, takes the card and gives me this whole fucking look as if I’ve committed the greatest crime of the century. You know the kind of look you give to Prem Chopra or Ranjeet or even Shakti Kapoor when they are in the midst of their traditional rape scenes in movies.
“Don’t you have cash?”
‘No I don’t’
“You eat a 10 dollar thali and give me this card. What will we earn off it. We don’t accept cards below 20$ checks” - and the way he says it looks like I am the - bhikari/homeless beggar - of Artesia who just had a free meal at their place.
Come ON!!! IS THIS THE FUCKING WAY TO TALK TO YOUR CUSTOMERS???
Fortunately before I could start destroying his restaurant with my Punjabi anger, I managed to let go of the instant spurge in anger.
‘Umm… why don’t you then put up a billboard here that you only accept cards if the check is $20 and above??? How am I supposed to know your rules?’
And then he makes that fucking facial expression while saying
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“Ok this time I’ll accept it. Next time be careful”
WHAT THE FUCK???? THE WAY HE SAYS IT IS AS IF HE’S THE FUCKING HEADMASTER OF THE SCHOOL AND I A KID, HAS MADE THE WORST MISTAKE, FOR WHICH HE WILL LET ME OFF LIGHTLY THIS TIME.
Needless to say, I simply stopped going there and whenever friends would come for a visit, I take them to any other place but that fucking “Jai Bharat” restaurant.
Smile assholes… fuck someone teach them the simple art of smiling.
But you know what?
Jai Bharat is the one place which makes consistent good food. And they are one of the few desi restaurants where the food quality has been kept very consistent.
Why is the best food served by the crappiest of people?
Alright, I’m hungry and off to try the “new branch” of Ambala Dhaba. I guess by the time I have grandchildren the whole Pioneer street on Artesia will have been renamed as Ambala Town.
So until the next post, ya’ll be good, stay safe and have a rockin’ weekend.
P.S. Oh by the way I’m off to an adventure trip to Brazil for a couple of hours tomorrow. Shall report very shortly on the adventure. Sorry can’t do pictures because it’s bound to have some nudie pictures and I would like to keep Desi Train clean… (cough cough) very clean :d
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September 15th, 2006 at 12:02 pm
Shitty Faced restaurant owner…. Totally relatable. especially If you are/were in New Jersey. Such a refreshing post Oz. Keep this coming
September 15th, 2006 at 3:47 pm
these fucking restaurant owners think as if they r doing a community service for indians by running an indian restaurant . I agree with the views and thoughts of my indian friend from artesia. hey , how is ambala dhaba yaar ? me from artesia area , recently moved , and last week I too went to pioneer blvd last week , had lunch in restaurant called naaz….i want to try some good restaurant..any good retaurant having good quality indian food with well mannered staff , please let me know . also , hows ambala dhaba ?
September 16th, 2006 at 1:12 am
and the worst is when people who are at fault look back shamelessly without blinking an eye lid and answer back. And then u begin to suffer from identity crisis - “Are these guys idiots or am i one ???? ”
Perfectly relatable Oz boss …. although trust me in such situations once in a while do vent into your punjabi anger. It can pay rich dividends !!!!
And pls oh pls ….. can we have some pics of brazilian beauties….
September 18th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
yes jaybharat does have good food, and the expressions on the owner’s faces have much to be desired… however there are a couple of workers over there who are quite pleasant. i haven’t been to rajdhani though, was meaning to go.. but since the food is now bad, i think i’ll pass.