India Gardens

Nickel

Nickel

curiouser and curiouser
BS Gal said:
This was sooooooooooooooo not funny.
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Tip: If you tell people (strangers, no less) the exact time and location of your latest bout of diarrhea, they're going to make fun of you. :giggle:
 
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tikipirate

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Your toilet humor notwithstanding...

When one adds up the price of opening a restaurant, the cost of training the kitchen and waitstaff is almost in the weeds. The White Tiger on Capitol Hill probably pays several multiples in rent compared to India Garden, yet can still deliver the best Indian cuisine west of London. Why do we get beef tips in gravy?

http://www.washingtonian.com/dining/Profiles/whitetiger.html

A few weeks ago I spoke to the ladies who are opening the 'Thai Inter' restaurant where 'Three Brothers' once occupied the 'Roy Rogers'. (Scheduled to open on 01 NOV.) After informing these (charming) ladies that 'Thai Inter' isn't quite so catchy as 'Siam Dream' or something similar, I warned them about 'Americanizing' their food. Apparently, they had already heard the speech, because they seem spring-loaded to deliver full-on Thai food at the diner's request.

My first request will be a spicy beef panang, my bellwether dish for any Thai restaurant. But the best thing they could ever serve (especially in SoMD) would be cleaver-chopped soft shell crabs flash-fried with birds-eye peppers over rice noodles. Hotter than hell, sweeter than love.
 
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sonsorae

What now?!
tikipirate said:
Your toilet humor notwithstanding...

When one adds up the price of opening a restaurant, the cost of training the kitchen and waitstaff is almost in the weeds. The White Tiger on Capitol Hill probably pays several multiples in rent compared to India Garden, yet can still deliver the best Indian cuisine west of London. Why do we get beef tips in gravy?

http://www.washingtonian.com/dining/Profiles/whitetiger.html

A few weeks ago I spoke to the ladies who are opening the 'Thai Inter' restaurant where 'Three Brothers' once occupied the 'Roy Rogers'. (Scheduled to open on 01 NOV.) After informing these (charming) ladies that 'Thai Inter' isn't quite so catchy as 'Siam Dream' or something similar, I warned them about 'Americanizing' their food. Apparently, they had already heard the speech, because they seem spring-loaded to deliver full-on Thai food at the diner's request.

My first request will be a spicy beef panang, my bellwether dish for any Thai restaurant. But the best thing they could ever serve (especially in SoMD) would be cleaver-chopped soft shell crabs flash-fried with birds-eye peppers over rice noodles. Hotter than hell, sweeter than love.
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Let's get some information straight. The owner is a gentleman who is very close to my family. I don't know who these women are, but there is a a reason why they chose that name (religious purpose). It may not be catchy for you, but maybe you should ask the owner why they chose this name for the restaurant.

Don't be so quick to judge the ThaiInter. Beef panang is usually offered at most Thai restaurants. My advice to you, if you want hot, tell them "Thai hot." Most Thai restaurants do not serve they food as spicy as I have had growing up. Even when I have asked in the native language, they aren't convinced that most Americans can take the heat.
 
Pete

Pete

Repete
BS Gal said:
Much. I think it is because you were so sympathetic to my delicate condition. :huggy:
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I would have even made a late night charmin run for you if it was needed. :huggy:
 
BS Gal

BS Gal

Voted Nicest in 08
Pete said:
I would have even made a late night charmin run for you if it was needed. :huggy:
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You are so good to me. That damn lime in the coconut song has been running through my head since last night......
 
Pete

Pete

Repete
a ona

a twoa

:dance: Put de lamb in de co co nut and flush it all down... :dance: Put de lamb in de co co nut and flush it all down... :dance:
 
BS Gal

BS Gal

Voted Nicest in 08
Pete said:
a ona

a twoa

:dance: Put de lamb in de co co nut and flush it all down... :dance: Put de lamb in de co co nut and flush it all down... :dance:
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P.S. You are now my fav. Don't tell Mike. :love:
 
Triggerfish

Triggerfish

New Member
2ndAmendment said:
If a restaurant does not give a customer what he wants, that restaurant can expect to not have repeat business and eventually go out of business.

If you want this place to survive Triggerfish, you might want to pass tikipirate's comments on to the owner.
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I'll be happy if they last a year, since the navy will move me again in 14 months. It is pricey yet I have been to at least one Indian restaurant that was more expensive. I just wish that they had nan.
 
Triggerfish

Triggerfish

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OK I tried the restaurant for the second time. Very dissapointed. We placed an order for pick up and told that it would be ready in 20 minutes. My wife went to pick it up 10 minutes later and we live off Chancellor's Run so it is just a 5 minute drive. After she got there she had to wait another 40 minutes. When she got the food, no excuses, no comments, no apologies.
 
vraiblonde

vraiblonde

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Our food tonight was wonderful! I had the Butter Chicken (chunks of chicken in a creamy tomato sauce), Alex had the Channa Masala (chickpeas in a brown onion sauce), we split an appetizer sampler (the only thing we didn't like was the weird potato cake), and galub jamun for dessert (milk dumplings in syrup). We also had Garlic Naan (pita type bread stuff that we could have gorged on).

Her first time eating Indian, my second and we would definitely go back. :yay:
 
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