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Lahore Deli

Lunch break in Soho at Internet Week. It’s hard to find a cheap hole in the wall. Lahore is one of the few places –tiny unassuming Pakistani deli on a short off-shoot block.

The group in front of me was interesting. A guy brought his out-of-town female friends and he was so proud to them them this place, like he knew this was a great hidden gem in NY. I helped explain to one of the girls what Snapple was. I’m not sure she spoke English though.

I went with the Curry Chicken, Lentils and Eggplant $7 –forgoing the rice. I’m slow-carbing it. That and cutting back my drinking to two-thirds of the week. I’m so skinny now. I now have a jawl line.

I waited for them to microwave the food and received a container of slop with everything mixed up together. It was actually a really tasty container of slop. I’m sure the rice would have kept everything separate, but I enjoyed the mixture. Every now and then I spat out pieces of bone. That makes me feel cool while sitting on a bench outside of a boutique and watching the Soho girls walk by. I think I saw the T-Mobile girl.

I love the sweet Chai Tea!

Lahore Deli - 132 Crosby St (btwn Houston & Jersey St) New York, NY 10012

Oh, I also got front row seats to see Deepak Chopra at the Internet Week conference. He was wearing some slick red shoes. I wish I had a photo of them.

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indian

Carb Diet Fail

I’ve been on a no-carb diet for the past three weeks and today was supposed to be my last day before I go on tour and gain all the weight back. But after band practice tonight, Matt and I went to Punjabi Deli and I ate the rice. So close to finishing the goal. Only a few more minutes until midnight. I fucked it all up. It tasted good though …but I do feel fat now.

Punjabi Grocery & Deli - 114 E 1st St (btwnn 1st Ave & Ave A) New York, NY 10009

I also got a new camera today …the Sony HX9V point and shoot. A lot of DSLR videographers are raving about the video quality …and from the videos, it looks sharper than the Canon DSLRs. Perhaps it doesn’t have the shallow depth of field, but at wide angle, it’s freaking amazing for such a small thing. Shoots 1080p at 60fps (only $350). That’s insane. Motion a little flickery on Youtube, but I think that’s a Youtube thing. Looks better on Vimeo.

Anyway, I bought this for pocketable quick video, but I’m really impressed at the stills …especially compared to my Canon S90 that I’ve been using for a year and a half now. The HX9V hardware and optics doesn’t seem as good (f/3.3 lens vs f/2.0), but I feel like the results is comparable and maybe a little better through the software trickery. For the low light, it takes multiple images and somehow composites them to look decent. It’s slow shooting this way, but the resulting photo is pretty good.

The faster lens on the S90 is a little brighter, but a little more washed out and more noise.

I know video is looking darker in low light compared to the S90, but I still can’t wait to shoot some sweet HD video with it. Look at what Cheesycam blog did with this camera…

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Apna Punjab Restaurant

I’ve been waiting for this place to open up for a while …I guess because I’m missing the hole in the wall Indian spots around the Curry Hill area. They’ve all become trendy. Well Apna Punjab is a little hole spot. Not a whole lot of selection compared to say Chadni or La.Sani. I got the Goat Curry with Chicken Biryani ($8). I don’t think that’s a common combination, but he gave it to me anyway. I think a meat and veggie over regular rice is $7.

The meat was tender. Maybe dry overall, but the green sauce helped that. The flavors were good though. The Biryani was flavorful with spices and dates. Much better than the Biryani I got from a street cart a week before, which I swear was the same exact thing as halal chicken over rice with maybe ground pepper for an extra dollar more than chicken over rice.

In the end, I feel like Jerry Seinfeld wanting to help Babu succeed. I want the little guy to win. But dang, it’s hard to give an endorsement. $8 lunch at a tiny hole and with so many good Pakistani restaurants a few blocks away. That being said, I feel like a very very bad man. … The food is good enough though. If it was next door to my office, I would eat there again.

[update: I just found their business card in my back pocket. They are open 24hours 7days a week. I’ll give them an extra star for that]

Apna Punjab Restaurant & Grill – 203 E 25th St. (btwn 3rd & 2nd Ave) New York 10010

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Gourmet Palace Pakistani & Indian Restaurant

A brand new Pakistani & Indian Restaurant! …on an already competitive street right smack between Chandni and La.Sani and above a Muslim temple. The space is big and wide open. The food is out in steam trays like the other restaurants –ready to be pointed, picked and microwaved.

The food tasted really good. Flavors were spot on and spicy. The chicken chunks were tricky with them tricky bones. I think I had a part of a spine. But I like them bones that way. $6 for my plate.

It’s definitely tougher now to decide where to eat on that short 29th Street block. I will come back for more. Plus table condiments now apparently include prescription pills (see last photo).

Gourmet Palace – 13 W 29th St (btwn Broadway & 5th Ave) New York, NY 10001

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Chandni’s Goat Liver

This time I got Goat Liver and Eggplant from Chandni …the place where I happened to eat in front of 200 Muslim men praying towards me. It was similar to calf liver in texture and density. What’s great is that there’s no bones! …one of the few meat dishes there that doesn’t. I’d be scared if there were.

Chandni – 11 W 29th St (btwn 5th Ave & Broadway) New York, NY 10001

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Midtownlunch.com: Chandni

I reviewed Pakistani, Indian, Bangladeshi food and 200 Muslim men —link

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lunch

Midtownlunch.com: Haandi Lunch Buffet

My latest review for Midtownlunch —link

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indian restauranting

Haandi & Hillel

head over to curry hill with hillel of tastingmenu.com for pakistani food. all i think about is that seinfeld episode. we get the 2 meat, 1 weggie special for $7.99. i know i can only eat a little thanks to the hypnosis diet, but i want to order 6 meats and 4 weggie. paul mckenna is a bad man! very bad man!

Haandi – 113 Lexington Ave (btwn 27 & 28th St), NY 10016
Tastingmenu.com’s cross post!