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There are now plenty of places in Curry Hill where you can get a masala dosa, the delicious potato-filled crepe of South India, but Chennai Garden has carried the obsession further than most other establishments, offering manifold variations like rava dosa (with a supple Cream of Wheat batter), paper dosa (an ultra-thin unfilled crepe), and, my fave, a "gunpowder" masala dosa hosed with hot pepper. In addition to such southern snacks as iddly and utthappam, the menu goes exploring in the Pujab and Gujarat, respectively, for specialties like okra masala and undhiyu, an unusual stew of yam, snow peas, and eggplant.
Our long pork-belly winter has faded into the back-ground. Following the dictates of our foodie patriarchs, we've obediently sucked down hundredweights of lard, butter, and tallow, and generally treated our weary corpses as oleaginous dumping... More »
It was a decade ago that Madras Palace first began dealing dosas out of a narrow storefront on lower Lexington Avenue. These delectable vegetarian crepes are made from a batter of ground rice and urad dal (a tiny beige bean) that's allowed to... More »
I salivate every time I think of CHENNAI GARDEN, a restaurant that restricts itself to vegetarian food from several Indian regions--including Gujarat and the Punjab --without making us miss meat, fish, or poultry. The range of dosas is impressive, though not unique to the neighborhood. The exception is the "gunpowder dosa"--I leave it for you to discover what it contains. More »
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