Tangra Masala

So I shlepped all the way out to Queens on Saturday to have me some Tangra Masala. Yes, this is Chinese-Indian food. Huh, you ask? Well, when I was growing up in India, there were very few foreign restaurants. All food as far as I could tell was Indian food, with the exception of one type of cuisine: Chinese Indian food. Apparently, there is a long history of Chinese Indian food in India, starting with when some Chinese exiles came to Calcutta and started doing a fusion type of cooking. I could wikipedia this and link it all but really, this is not the point the of the post. Rather, the bottom line is that sometimes on Sundays, my parents would be kind and generous and would order take-out Indian Chinese food which was ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS. I'm thinking of chicken lollipops and manchurian chicken. Utterly lipsmacking. It's so tasty and spicy and delicous.

So there I was on Saturday afternoon with Pux and FNR, downing the spiciest Hot and Sour Chicken Soup I've had in years. My nose was running. As in my tissue was soaked with goo from the spicy food clearing up my sinuses. Then I had chicken lollipops, which were good but not amazing, but still how bad can fried chicken really be? The answer: not bad. Thereafter, had some beef gravy and chicken gravy dishes which were pretty close to awesome.

After the meal, I was happy. In a food coma, yes. And I found myself in a Target which was weird. But apart from all of that, yes, I was content.