In his honor I went to Kabab King today and got Bihari beef kababs and a goat pulao. (I salute their ability to distinguish a pulao from a biryani – they had that, too, with the overly orange grains of rice that proclaim “hey, I might be saffron”.)
A somewhat side, interesting thing about the NYT piece is that their picture of the big M eating at KK is nothing like reality. There are flowers on the bottom left, there’s an awful whiteness to the table – loaded description, that – and are those ceramic plates and bowls?
I guess the readership of the NYT can only handle reality up to a point.
I believe there was a recent pizza thread concerning the mayoral candidates, but like with most even tangentially politics-related topic here, it didn’t go over well. Or maybe it was just a comment (?) from someone
It’s not common folk vs fancy folk, but in the style of similar restaurants of the subcontinent, family room / more space vs takeout / public / quick bites.
It shows him coming down the stairs in one of the photos.
BarneyGrubble
(Aficionado of Beethoven, and Latina singers)
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Mamdani ….. my countryman from way back when!
Reminds me (and this is not political): at university (when Idi Amin was in the process of throwing out all the Asians), I was at a wine and cheese party when a professor stopped to talk to me and one of my classmates who was a black Ugandan (I’m Asian), and he asked us where we were from. We both said “ Uganda”, to which he said, “ So you’re on opposite sides!” I said, “No, we’re friends”. I was amazed at his lack of tact.
That is interesting…and boy I’m old. I really liked Mira Nair’s early films, like Salaam Bombay! I never really listened to Mamdani before yesterday being on the West Coast. I see why he won, extremely articulate and focused.
Cottage industry idea — Mayor’s Food Tour.
Maybe it will motivate the KK guys to be a little less rude / indifferent to customers
Or maybe it will just become a thing, like the Seinfeld soup guy
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