Celebrate Diwali By Going to an Indian Buffet
Today is Diwali, a major holiday celebrated by Indian people of all faiths, and many of the Indian restaurants in Midtown are rolling out the big guns. Prices will stay the same, but Spice Fusion (on 8th Ave. btw. 47+48th) says their buffet will be “more elaborate” today and Touch of India (on 37th btw. 7+8th) has said they will have special items on their buffet, like biryani. (Sukhadia, on 45th is doing nothing special and Curry Dream didn’t even know it was Diwali.)
Posted: 10:41 am, October 28th, 2008 under Buffet, All You Can Eat, Indian, Spice Fusion.
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26 Comments
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Where’s the Tuesday freak?
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Curry Dream didn’t know? Bizarre. Even yahoo knew, they have a diwali banner on their home page.
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I fail at being Indian. I totally didn’t know it was Diwali today. Whoops. Good thing I came to Midtown Lunch!
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As many of you know, I am a retired “educator.” My wife (for over twenty years) is a health-care professional (laser hair removal) and caberet performer. She is considerably younger than I, which sometimes makes it a bit difficult keeping up with her . . . but I LOVE trying!
Patronizing an Indian Buffet on some obscure ethnic “Holiday” is probably the last thing my wife and I would consider on this lovely Tuesday morniung. We adore Indian food but do NOT eat in restaurants for very obvious reasons (not the least of which are the profound lack of even basic sanitation in their kitchens and the extremely high likelihood that the waitress or waiter has both a communicable disease — perhaps even infectious herpes (especially in New York) — and a very sour attitude). We are, quite simply, unwilling to so shortsightedly jeopardize our health.
But if y’all want to, by all means be my guest.
Chuck, PhD
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Y’know, CockChug, some Indian food might smoke out Twitchy from his hidey-hole. You really should give it a try.
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Chucky..you went to a dipshit redneck college, are racist in the extreme and are infact a terrible inictment of all that is wrong with America.
And as for you ‘Young vivacous wife’….she looks like a Pitbull chewing a wasp..a very very fat ugly pitbull.
You both look like extras from Deliverance.
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Can i use Diwali as an excuse to dance Bhangra in my office?
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All set to order Bibimbap from Pro Deli when I realized today was Diwali.
Have to order in, but Sapphire (1845 Bwy, between 60 and 61) has a special Diwali buffet. Would like to hear from other Midtown Lunchers who go there. -
not a fan of saphire…had a friend who ate the lunch box all the time (we went to NYIT right next door)…i thought it was bland…but he liked it…
i think Bay leaf is 10x better.
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@ Blondie, I think a dose of Bhangra to celebrate the triumph of good over evil is totally valid. Meanwhile, I’ll bust out a little “interpretive” Kathak at my office for good measure. I think it’s going to go over awesomely with the CFO.
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You just gotta love the Doc
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CockChug giving advice to people on obesity…the mind reels
Next he’ll be consulting on schizophenia, anal-retentiveness and penis enlargement
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I used to totally rock Orissa dance, but now I can’t remember one pata from the other.
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lmao @ “hope this helps”
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I took about a year of bharatanatyam before I had to drop out. I think I’ll opt for Bhangra as well — and maybe snag some samosas from the Cafe Spice outpost at Grand Central on my way home.
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is DocChuck for real?
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i didn’t realize it was diwali until after i ate my minar lunch. i had indian on the brain anyway.
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Adam, the answer is no – he is by far the funniest aspect of this site, and his tongue in cheek existence is lost on almost all. Almost as funny as his posts are the outraged responses from people who for some reason continue to take him seriously.
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DIgger, DOC CHUCK takes himself very seriously! Do not provoke his wrath! He may bust his catheter on you.
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Actually, DocChuck believes the inanity that spews from his keyboard. Sad but true. Worse still, the message is the same over and over again – “Hi, I’m awesome, you’re not, you all have herpes, the food you’re talking about is disgusting and beneath me”. How exactly are these same insults over and over again in any way funny? Rather than being a comedic positive for this blog, he represents a negative distraction from it, and we’d all benefit from a MTL Doc-ectomy. He has been banned from other Food sites (Roadfood, Serious Eats, Off the Broiler, and doubtless many others I am unawae of) and he should be banned here as well.
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DocChuck doesn’t need to be banned. People could just start randomly posting as DocChuck and thus dilute his asshattery.
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My dearest Fred:
I sincerely hope you are NOT the “Fred” that is Chiffonade’s grotesquely obese paramour.
I have been banned from many of the most esteemed sites in cyberworld. Is that not a badge of honor for a man confident enough to continuously speak his mind? Yes. Yes, it is. I wear it PROUDLY. If the operators of this site choose to ban me for merely speaking the truth about filthy food carts and diseased food handlers, so be it.
As for you and Mr. McBeagle, Mamacita, Wayne and the various and sundry others who pollute this fine site with their verbal effluent (including thinly veiled sexual innuendo), I’ll consider your “opinions” when (and only when) you are my intellectual and social equal. A state of being you are unlikely ever to achieve.
Some of the people here remind me of the type of people my wife encountered when she operated a very successful commercial kennel in northern Arkansas years ago. Those restauranteurs put on all kinds of airs, yet at the end of the day they were uneducated, unrefined boors with nary a dime among them. Sad.
What is NOT sad is my life/lifestyle. I detail it and my worldview on my My Space page, should that interest you. I’m sure it will cause you to become insanely jealous and, perhaps, even clinically depressed. I can help with the latter, if needed, as I have a PhD in psychology.
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you are my intellectual and social equal…You’ve been Banned from use of the internet within Arkansas, your gorilla of a wife has a record of fraudulent conversion.And you yourself are a bankrupt.
Also…this Motel in the Dekotas…owned by a Belgian company.
If you’re going to do this you dopey fat fuck…try it with someone who dosen’t have global credit access.
Fuckwit.
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Mr. McBeagle?? BWAHAHAHA!!
Sorry hon… I’m laughing with you… err…. ;-)
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When i get the negatives of me you and guacamole.
Is Meru going to do anything special?