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With the warmth of an endearingly eccentric relative, 86-year-old Boman Kohinoor of Britannia Restaurant, tel: (91-22) 2261 5264, in south Mumbai, exclaims, "You must try the berry pulav, which my wife introduced in 1982 after returning from a trip to Iran." A waiter appears moments later with saffron golden rice and tender chunks of curried potatoes, fried cashews, wisps of crispy onions and ruby-red barberries imported from Tehran. "In Iran, the food is dry and bland by Indian standards so my wife experimented to find the right spices to liven up the dish," says Kohinoor...
...called up the place and had a nice conversation with "David," a waiter who seemed utterly puzzled by our interest in the Obama Maki. See the conversation after the jump...
FlyBy: So...why is this dish called "Obama Maki?" [And why did the receptionist just hand the phone over to a waiter? Hello, owner? Manager...
...busy Saturday evening dinner service became a very busy Saturday evening dinner service, I watched as a fellow waiter burst suddenly into tears.The restaurant’s background music had just transitioned from a soulful Diana Ross ballad to Patsy Cline’s “Crazy,” and I couldn’t decide whether “men are dogs,” “insufficient tip,” or “another waiter’s gibes” was a likelier explanation for her sorrow. “My mother...
...popular joke deriding Medvedev: "Putin and Medvedev are customers in a restaurant. After Putin orders a steak, the waiter asks him, "And the vegetable?" Putin responds: "He'll have steak...