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| - This place is always so painful to visit. There's mass confusion, poor service and mixed up orders. Calling ahead so your food will be ready when you get there doesn't work either. I usually overlook this when going to any Pakistani "dhaba" type places but today was just more than I have patience for.
Called ahead for 4 nashtas, am told it's ready so no need to call ahead, I insist on it telling her it always takes 20 minutes to wait for the puris so she agrees to have my order ready. I also request that the puris be made dry and not fried, she says not possible (though other places accommodate the request for those of us who don't care for greasy fried bread). So I request two naan on the side. I get there 30 minutes later and am told they CAN make the puris dry (great!) so I cancel the naans. My order is now prepared (I guess calling ahead was useless). I am handed my order 10 minutes later and there's a package of OPENED uncooked frozen puris (Crispy brand) in the bag. I mean really? If I wanted to make store bought puris at home, I would just do that. Besides don't they make their own puris from scratch??! I ask the lady what that's all about, she tells me that's the unfried puris I asked for. People intervene, usual confusion unfolds and the package of frozen puris are taken back into the kitchen. 10 more minutes later, same woman reemerges with warm puris in foil. Not wanted to hang around this place anymore, I head home to feed the troops. As suspected, they were soggy and dripping in oil. *sigh*
So in the end, spent the usual half hour in mass confusion trying to pick up food which ended up not being what I wanted, as usual.
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