Granted, Maharajas don’t have meeting minutes to write and report home, but I’m more easily satisfied.\u00c2\u00a0 After a meeting I dreaded because there was no agenda and notoriously bad communication preceding it, I didn’t mind that it lasted a good five hours because it went much better than expected.\u00c2\u00a0 Add to that the possibility to have my suit dry-cleaned in one day tomorrow, and that’s reason enough for a small-scale celebration.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
I ambled about aimlessly in search of a restaurant that suited me, saw an ad for El Torito, saw the twenty-odd people sitting in a row outside (though compared with the Krispy Kreme<\/a> line that’s tame), and decided to try the one Japanese restaurant, which was too expensive, and the other, which was full, finally arriving at the Indian restaurant Maharaja, where I snagged a seat in the smoking section as had so many non-smokers before me, judging from the sparse smoke.\u00c2\u00a0 (Besides, I suppose it’s a three-way tie between smoke, Indian food, and rainy season sweat.)\u00c2\u00a0 I ordered (and ate) Hara Bara Kabab<\/a>, Kaburi Naan (naan with chopped raisins and cashews), and spicy lamb kabab along with a plain lassi and an Indian Shiraz<\/a> that tasted good even before the food came.\u00c2\u00a0 I admit that I didn’t quite fit the typical restaurant visitor – there were plenty of foreigners, but they were either there on business or with a Japanese girlfriend<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 For some reason I hadn’t thought ahead to plan that accessory acquisition<\/a> correctly, but I don’t think it would have been appreciated…\u00c2\u00a0 Besides, it made me aware that I am missing someone who I know is missing me, and both of us for good reason.\u00c2\u00a0 And with that, I think I’m better off than even your average Maharaja.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Granted, Maharajas don’t have meeting minutes to write and report home, but I’m more easily satisfied.\u00c2\u00a0 After a meeting I dreaded because there was no agenda and notoriously bad communication preceding it, I didn’t mind that it lasted a good five hours because it went much better than expected.\u00c2\u00a0 Add to that the possibility to have my suit dry-cleaned in one day tomorrow, and that’s reason enough for a small-scale celebration.\u00c2\u00a0 I ambled about aimlessly in search of a restaurant that suited me, saw an ad for El Torito, saw the twenty-odd people sitting in a row outside (though compared with the Krispy Kreme line that’s tame), and decided to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}