chicken biryani that eid scenario is funny so one family might still be fasting and the other celebrating eid lol...the thing here is most ppl don't even celebrate eid so us they try to make it on a saturday or sunday so people can actually pray.
firenze i know american pakis are not well known in mainstream american culture...they don't know the difference between indian or paki, they group all of middle east and india together. another thing is not many desi restuarants around here either the business doesn't last long and they end up closing due to lack of service...nobody supports desi food :( too spicy for them..its not unusual to walk into a desi restuarant here and find not a busy atmoshphere...
true m2k but we still don't have much influence in america although we may have attracted more educated professionals in the 40s and 50s vs. factory workers from pak that england took induring that time period...nothing wrong with keeping in touch with roots but paki brits have a lot more paki influence maybe because geograpically they are closer?