[Update - Closed]
Pix from 10/15 during our second visit to India-Asia buffet in Mira Mesa, which opened last month in the Little India shopping mall on Camino Ruiz. I was too embarassed to take photos at the buffet station because there were too many customers. So, here is my plate. I had a couple of samosas and a bit of everything (I forget the names), but spinach was one of them, plus garbanzo beans, some sort of curry, two kinds of rice, and one type of creamy-sauced chicken. I know it sounds so lame to describe Indian food so inarticulately...
Their naan was NOT good. Burnt and devoid of flavor. Other places I've gone to have garlic and/or cilantro on it.
After our lunch, we decided to check out Ker Market next door, which is next to Gateway to India, a banquet facility.
It's a big warehouse type of store with rows and rows of all kinds of Indian products, like lentils, spices, prepared foods, and snacks.
More snacks...They like their snacks super hot! I don't know what spices they use, but they will seriously scorch your mouth. It's a different hot, not like Mexican food hot, but dangerous and pungent hot!
This was an endcap of miscellaneous items. Looks dissheveled.
Ah yesss...the makeshift toilet paper holder in their public bathroom. TC had to go, so off we went. Nice bit of MacGuyvering there, eh.
They had a table of sweets set out by the cash register. These looked so cool - quite colorful and I'm sure they taste wonderful. They were packaged quite nicely for the upcoming (at the time) Indian holiday, Diwali Festival of Lights).
There was also a small stand with assorted fruits and vegetables. These are tiny little eggplants - oh so cute!!! You can also see fresh okra in the upper right corner.
Here are some gnarly looking bittermelon! They look like they have VD!
It was a nice foray, a cultural plunge if you will, into Ker Market. We bought a few snack items and sweets. The sweets were quite buttery (they use ghee, a clarified butter) and the snacks hot as hell! I love going to different ethnic markets. It's always exciting to try out new foods and snacks.
Pix from 10/15 during our second visit to India-Asia buffet in Mira Mesa, which opened last month in the Little India shopping mall on Camino Ruiz. I was too embarassed to take photos at the buffet station because there were too many customers. So, here is my plate. I had a couple of samosas and a bit of everything (I forget the names), but spinach was one of them, plus garbanzo beans, some sort of curry, two kinds of rice, and one type of creamy-sauced chicken. I know it sounds so lame to describe Indian food so inarticulately...
Their naan was NOT good. Burnt and devoid of flavor. Other places I've gone to have garlic and/or cilantro on it.
After our lunch, we decided to check out Ker Market next door, which is next to Gateway to India, a banquet facility.
It's a big warehouse type of store with rows and rows of all kinds of Indian products, like lentils, spices, prepared foods, and snacks.
More snacks...They like their snacks super hot! I don't know what spices they use, but they will seriously scorch your mouth. It's a different hot, not like Mexican food hot, but dangerous and pungent hot!
This was an endcap of miscellaneous items. Looks dissheveled.
Ah yesss...the makeshift toilet paper holder in their public bathroom. TC had to go, so off we went. Nice bit of MacGuyvering there, eh.
They had a table of sweets set out by the cash register. These looked so cool - quite colorful and I'm sure they taste wonderful. They were packaged quite nicely for the upcoming (at the time) Indian holiday, Diwali Festival of Lights).
There was also a small stand with assorted fruits and vegetables. These are tiny little eggplants - oh so cute!!! You can also see fresh okra in the upper right corner.
Here are some gnarly looking bittermelon! They look like they have VD!
It was a nice foray, a cultural plunge if you will, into Ker Market. We bought a few snack items and sweets. The sweets were quite buttery (they use ghee, a clarified butter) and the snacks hot as hell! I love going to different ethnic markets. It's always exciting to try out new foods and snacks.
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