i like my hungry man w/ curry
Sunday, May 25, 2003
lunch adventure, part one
I woke up thinking about lamb today. Slow-cooked in a perfect curry, fragrant and delightful, accompanied by mulligtawny soup and naan. I woke up thinking about Indian food today. I woke up thinking about Indian food... again.
And so it continues... today started out like any other day, me waking up exhausted, thinking of Indian food... I'm sure I dreamed of it too, but I'm not usually one to remember dreams after I wake up. The problem is, I don't know how to make Indian food and I didn't want to use up my emergency reserve of frozen chicken tikka. I'm sure you can understand this was quite a problem. So I pushed this thought down with coffee and the task of laundry... but when the urge takes hold, it cannot be suppressed for long.
So, around noon I started feeling shakey and hungry. And I started thinking about Indian food again. And how much I've come to love it. How much I've come to need it. I also started thinking that, as far as I knew, the only Indian restaurants around here were at least a half-hour drive away. And that was a drive I was willing to make, so armed with my friends, google.com and the "cheap eats" issue of Washingtonian Magazine, I set out to satisfy my need for naan. There were a few choices that didn't require me to leave the state, so I started plotting my route... and then... just on a whim, I decided to try to look up something a bit closer. In the past I'd driven by a local strip mall (god bless strip malls!) and saw a sign for "Taste of Tandoor", but from my vantage point, it appeared that this particular strip mall was being demolished. So much for local Indian cuisine. BUT THEN... imagine my excitement when one of my searches turned up this very same establishment... could it be? I was sure the listing was outdated, but decided that if I'm to be truly obsessed with something, I need to not be so hesitant. So I called the number, bracing myself for the "this number is disconnected or no longer in service" message. Ring... ring... (depression and panic start to set in) and then... "''allo, (something unintelligible)" OMIGOD! I HAVE BEEN SAVED!!!!!! I was in such a state of excitement that I had to verify so I said "are you guys really still open?". And indeed they were... until 3 for lunch, reopening at 5 for dinner. The impact of this news cannot fully be described with the written word, but I can say that I felt giddy... it was akin to finding the very last game piece for the mcdonald's monopoly game contest. (yeah, i need to work on my comparisons.)
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