Word: tandoori
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bombay Club's breads are exceptional. The simple chapati, cooked on a griddle, was obviously just made, warm, tender, and tasting earthily of wheat. Rogini naan, touched with butter but otherwise plain, crisped on the ends. Papadum, sun-dried lentil crisps that had been roasted in the tandoori oven, crackled in the mouth, the sprinkling of black pepper giving a little zing...
Other foods done in the tandoori were also appealing. Shrimp, tangy from its marinade and blushed bright red from the tandoor, was nonetheless moist inside. Trout, Vinod Kapoor said, baked in the coolest of the three tandoor ovens, tasted quite wonderful, as thought it had been smoked. The spicing on this Kashmiri dish was subtle, just a hint of curry, possibly of cardamom, and the slightly crisped flesh tender...
...English-language students from Korea, Switzerland and Argentina -- all on this Spanish-named road in this Mediterranean-style town. On TV, I find, the news is in Mandarin; today's baseball game is being broadcast in Korean. For lunch I can walk to a sushi bar, a tandoori palace, a Thai cafe or the newest burrito joint (run by an old Japanese lady). Who am I, I sometimes wonder, the son of Indian parents and a British citizen who spends much of his time in Japan (and is therefore -- what else? -- an American permanent resident)? And where...
Pabla said customers would be enticed by their preparation of traditional Indian tandoori specialties such as breads and chicken...
Pabla also said that their best dish may be the tandoori duck do-piaza kadahi. The dish consists of "boneless breast of tandoori duck, pan-roasted with sliced onions, tomatoes, exotic spices, served in a miniature wok," Pabla said...