If you were to eat iftari / dinner at a non-desi restaurant, where would you go?
I have had at least once at Pizza Hut, Red Lobster and Olive Garden. All three occassion out of necessity while traveling. I have also eaten sehri at IHOP.
So, any ideas or recommendations?
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funguy i dont feel like talking about food right now :(
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Depends on what kind of food you like. You can go anywhere as long as they don’t take 30 minutes to bring your food out.
Ok, I really don’t understand the point of this thread :halo:
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Unless you are concerned about the food being halaal. In which case olive garden is off the list too. I guess any arab place would do, turkish would do too, or any vegetarian place.
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been there done that. I traveled alot in the past at my previous job. have done exactly what u are describing. mostly with work colleagues though. most of the time, I would order mahi mahi or sword fish. These are the only fish I like. I can't take the fishi smell in any other kind (i.e. salmon, tuna, etc) Mahi Mahi and Sword fish are rare, expensive and hardly available in restaurant. If you know and Mcormix restaurant nearby (national chain but not in all states) they make the best sword fish/mahi mahi. They taste just like chicken. Yeah exactly, whats the point in eating it then? well the point is, u get halal chicken in an american restaurant.
If niether of the two are available, I would order some vegi stuff.
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Femme, zabiha is not an issue for me.
RB - do u travel for work?
Asif - do u ever order it to your room? I once order dominoes to my hotel room and it was a bad experience. the pizza was late and cold. And I just couldn't wait any longer so I ate it. At a restaurant u can send it back.
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Apple bees and order Shrimp Alfredo with garlic bread ....yum yum
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while traveling for work, I hardly ever stayed in the rooms on evenings. I have ordered it a couple times arriving late night to hotel room though. But it was mostly from pizza hut. I have also ordered it for lunch in the room right after arriving from the airport and before going to work. don’t remember any bad experience other than the fact that I would have to go down in the lobby to pick it up because they wouldn’t let pizza guys come upstairs usually after 10:00 PM
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There was a time Apple bees used to be edible and a nice place to spend a couple of hours. As of late I have been to one in Central Virginia and another in Kansas...they both looked like some truck stops joints.
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If zabiha is not an issue then can;t u just eat anywhere? Why do u need special recommendations or ideas for iftaari?
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What's wrong with a BK Whopper?
"Halal" is pretty subjective. How do you know muslim people serve "halal" just because they say so? Some sunnis will claim Ahmadias don't eat halal, most arabs will claim everything is halal including pepperoni, most indian muslims will eat zabiha halal but no beef thank you and that too only at indian hyderabadi shacks, most karachites will eat anything with nihari as a name, some pakistani muslims will eat McChicken because "white meat is halal", most desi diaspora muslims will eat MacDonald's Fish Meals because "fish is halal" even if it's grilled in the same oil as beef-based french fries or cheeseburgers or flipped with the same spatula that tramsitted the Bacon to the egg mcmuffin, most normal pizza lovers will eat VeggieLovers Pizza cut with the same knife blade that sliced through tons of bacon bits and beef. and nearly everyone once Ramadan is over will run to their favorite restaurant to order their favorite "religiously sanitized" meal prepared on the same plate that held someone else's "un-religiously sanctioned hence filthy" food many times over, washed by the same chicano asswipes using the same chicano set of hands and the same same ruddy sponge with the same dab of soap on it that did the previous dish. And they will go there again and again to sit on the same awful plastic chairs that held onto the gastric juices of hundreds of idolaters and other sinners before, after and during themselves, to sip from the beverage glasses that hundreds of parched non-zabiha beef-muching lips sucked from, gobble from the same dandy crappy stainless steel forks, knives and spoons bacteriafied with lard and belches from the mouths of other irreligious non-halal-consuming monsters, or they'll pull out faces and order modest menus to-go, with plastic cutlery made in Israel or some other "jewish hence hateful" factory, packed by the same set of people who packed pork fried rice and teriyaki-buddhist-beef using the same utensils, pair of hands and sweat beads into some non-or-not-good-muslim's styrofoam bowls.
what's with all this "halal" fad?
Eat. And be Grateful.
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Even though Zabhia ain't an issue, there are few places that would cater to something similarly desi for iftar. For example, I wouldn't want to eat steak and baked potatoes for iftar. Do u catch my drift?
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Now BK Whopper would be a good choice. I have also tried Chic Filet's original sandwich with waffle fries once for iftar.
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be grateful to who?
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PLEASE NO ZABIHA debate here! please... there is no way u can convince me.
back to topic...
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I ain't tryin either. delete reincarnation's post please. the question was directly to him.
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ok so getting back to zabiha....
:p
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asif - trust me , nobody will read past third line of his 50 line paragraph.
ff - do u only eat zabiha?
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Oct 27th, 2005 06:30 PM
Asif2000 be grateful to who?
"to whoM".
couldn't care less about convincing anyone, just pointing out the obvious.