{"id":186,"date":"2007-10-03T23:29:31","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T04:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/10\/03\/frozen-indian-chinese-food-at-a-patel-brothers-near-you\/"},"modified":"2007-10-03T23:47:15","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T04:47:15","slug":"frozen-indian-chinese-food-at-a-patel-brothers-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/03\/frozen-indian-chinese-food-at-a-patel-brothers-near-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen Indian-Chinese food, at a Patel Brothers near you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I went shopping at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patelbrothersusa.com\/index_new.asp\">Patel Brothers<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jackson_Heights,_Queens\">Jackson Heights<\/a> with my friend Roopa the other day, and saw these frozen <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_Chinese_cuisine\">Indian-Chinese dishes<\/a> to go! (sorry for the poor photo quality, I took it with my Treo and the lighting in the freezers was bad).<\/p>\n<p>Hakka noodles is to Indian-Chinese food what lo mein is to American-Chinese food.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/10\/03\/frozen-indian-chinese-food-at-a-patel-brothers-near-you\/indian-chinese-food-hakka-noodles\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-183\" title=\"Indian Chinese food, Hakka Noodles\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/10\/03\/frozen-indian-chinese-food-at-a-patel-brothers-near-you\/indian-chinese-food-hakka-noodles\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-183\" title=\"Indian Chinese food, Hakka Noodles\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Veg Manchurian is like their version of &#8220;General Tso.&#8221; I actually met the chef, Nelson Wang, who created the Manchurian dishes in Mumbai!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/10\/03\/frozen-indian-chinese-food-at-a-patel-brothers-near-you\/veg-manchurian-indian-chinese-dish\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-184\" title=\"Veg Manchurian Indian Chinese dish\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/10\/03\/frozen-indian-chinese-food-at-a-patel-brothers-near-you\/veg-manchurian-indian-chinese-dish\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-184\" title=\"Veg Manchurian Indian Chinese dish\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/photo_090707_002.jpg\" alt=\"Veg Manchurian Indian Chinese dish\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/10\/03\/frozen-indian-chinese-food-at-a-patel-brothers-near-you\/veg-manchurian-indian-chinese-dish\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-184\" title=\"Veg Manchurian Indian Chinese dish\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is Paneer Chili (spicy cheesetofu). Note the Chinese man with the fu man chu mustache and the peasant farm hat.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/10\/03\/frozen-indian-chinese-food-at-a-patel-brothers-near-you\/paneer-chili-an-indian-chinese-dish\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-185\" title=\"Paneer Chili, an Indian Chinese dish\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/10\/03\/frozen-indian-chinese-food-at-a-patel-brothers-near-you\/paneer-chili-an-indian-chinese-dish\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-185\" title=\"Paneer Chili, an Indian Chinese dish\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/photo_090707_003.jpg\" alt=\"Paneer Chili, an Indian Chinese dish\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So of the cultures that absolutely adore Chinese food, the Indians (along with the Koreans and Peruvians) are near the top of the list. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_Chinese_cuisine\">Indian-Chinese food<\/a> is more spicy. And it has more of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_Chinese_cuisine\">Hakka<\/a> (&#8220;Guest people&#8221;) influence as the majority of the Chinese that went over to India were Hakka.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese food is such a big deal in India that it&#8217;s risen to be part of their national food dichotomy: Northern vs. Southern, Veg vs. Non-Veg (why they say &#8220;non-veg&#8221; instad of &#8220;meat&#8221; is a mystery to me), and Indian vs. Chinese. Chinese food is so popular that top Indian restaurants will have like two pages of their menu devoted to Chinese food.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to try Indian Chinese food in New York City, you can try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesemirch.com\/\">Chinese Mirch <\/a>at East 28th and Lexington. In the Chicago area, I recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotwokvillage.com\/hotwok\/\">Hot Wok Village<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most popular Indian-Chinese dishes? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.food-india.com\/recipe\/R026_050\/R045.htm\">American chop suey.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went shopping at Patel Brothers in Jackson Heights with my friend Roopa the other day, and saw these frozen Indian-Chinese dishes to go! (sorry for the poor photo quality, I took it with my Treo and the lighting in the freezers was bad). Hakka noodles is to Indian-Chinese food what lo mein is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-food","category-chop-suey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-30","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}