One of my biggest complaints about Portland has been the lack of South Asian grocery stores, as well as restaurants. I went to Vindahlo a couple of years ago and basically had the worst Indian meal of my life, ie. since I decided Indian food rocked at age 6. I was kind of puzzled, too, because tons of people seem to love the food there, and it was utterly horrendously bad when I was there. Truth be told, if only non-South Asian folks are eating it and cooking it, it is apt to suck. Does thinking that make me a racist?
As an aside - I have always found annoying that phenomenon that seems to occasionally happen when an "ethnic" (ie non British Isles food - hah!) goes kind of upscale...All of the sudden it is pink folks serving it, cooking it even, and definitely profiting from it. Yeah, that annoys me.
But back to today's revelation(s). I was reading a review of Bombay Cricket Club here http://www.portlandfoodanddrink.com/2005/06/22/bombay-cricket-club/
and got to the real meat of it, which was (as it often is with these things) in the comments. You see, I am desperate for any information about good Indian restaurants here. And if they veer into something like Southern Indian, or something more exotic, well, so much the better. I mean, yeah, butter chicken is damn good, but Rava Upma is good too!
So off I went to Mayuri in Beaverton for their lunch buffet. But they were closed, down at pioneer square for an Indian festival. I was disappointed, until I realised that there was a deeper reason for my being there - to discover the Indian grocery store called India Connect, listed here with others out in Beaverton as well.
Finally! This west side thing is definitely shaping up to be a good thing, in terms of food related opportunities.
Tomorrow? Sambar!!! With chapatis!!
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