Hey there Teeni! I drive as well as have a gps to help me around. See u r lucky u live by the desi places. I m like freakin 55 mins drive away from everything. Way up north. Weird thing is I m scared to drive in Houston. Is it me or the drivers here r just too aggressive. I used to drive a lot in Chicago. Here in 4 months I have driven only twice. No driver indicates before changing lanes or let me correct only 10 % do. Back in Chicago I could even differentiate between the unmarked police cars. That helped while speeding :) Here I dunno anything. Finally have gotten used to the whole feeder road part.
I checked out the gold stores yesterday. Will try Sabri & Hot bread next time I go there. Thanks.
I live around the SW part of houston as well. Right on 59 and hillcroft. Bismillah snack (chaat, paani puri, chai, sandwitches...etc), bismillah resturant, sabri , shainai resturant are some of the good places. Aqsa halah meat (opp. bismiallah) is a good halah meat place. Desi grocery (Patel bors, taaza market, gulshan-e-iqbal (all on Hilcroft) are some of the good stores to get desi veggies and things.....About driving....How cool are the U-turns....that was the coolest thing I liked about houston coming from Chicago/St. Louis and I also agree that drivers here are more aggresive than drivers in chicago.
Also, supercenter walmarts was the 2nd thing I liked about houston since there were none in Chicago at the time.