Word: masala
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This fall, respondents overwhelmingly asked for chicken tikka masala...
...Britain. Had he done so, he would surely have noticed - as Andrew Sullivan recently put it - that "British society has morphed into a free-market melting pot of cultural brashness." Reverence for the magic of royalty? You might as well ask the British to stop eating chicken masala. To be fair to the House of Windsor (something that does not come easily), any strategy that it chose to modernize its image would sooner or later have foundered on the rock of Diana. The Windsors selected her as a future Queen on much the same basis as they would have bought...
Jamaican curry goat went for eight dollars a plate, while a few feet away, falafel, humus and tabouli sizzled at the Sabra Grill; chicken masala from the Diva Indian Bistro and Thai fried rice rounded out a mix of ethnic dishes...
...whatever global nosh you're craving. After all, this is the city where the favorite soup is not wonton but borscht - brought by the city's East European immigrants in the early 1900s and now proudly made by countless Shanghai grandmas. After you finish your phad thai or tikka masala, head to Face's bar, which opens out to a sweeping lawn. Sit in the Ming-style chairs for a quiet drink on the veranda. House drinks include the Chinese Whisper (Cointreau, Midori and lemonade) or a frozen vodka-cassis cocktail called the Shanghai Blues. The real action, though...
...Bollywood masala--savory cultural stew--restores melodrama to its Greek-tragedy and Italian-opera roots: melody-drama, in which emotions too deep to be spoken must be sung. Imagine Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich dancing around the utility company's lawyers while lip-synching a tune sung by Faith Hill, and you have a hint of the divine delirium that is Bollywood...