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Indo Munch
Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, New York City
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Indo Munch
Reviewer's Summary: So-So Food & Average Service
Indo Munch
182 Lexington Avenue
(Bet 31 & 32 St)
New York, NY 10016
Closed
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Indo Munch
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Remind us to buy a hearing aid for our deaf waiter at Indo Munch.
Or maybe we should reserve our contempt for the restaurant's inconsiderate chef.
In any case, one of them or both bear responsibility for much of the below par food we were served at this new Indian-Chinese restaurant on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan.
Despite requesting twice that the food should be spicy, our waiter repeatedly plonked down stuff on our table that was mostly tasteless and bland. And anything but spicy.
The sole exception to our underseasoned, underspiced lunch was the Chilli Vegetable Noodles. It came as we'd ordered. And tasted real delicious.
But the Chilli Vegetable Noodles was an exception in an otherwise unexceptional meal.
While the Salt & Pepper Gobi ($6.95) we had (while waiting for our noodles and fried rice) did not set our tastebuds tingling, they were okay. The appetizers took about seven minutes to arrive and the main course followed 20 minutes later.
Egg-Vegetable Fried Rice ($7.95) was an abomination. Bland and underseasoned to the point of disgust, this was a dish any kitchen would be ashamed to let out of its kitchen.
Vegetable Manchurian ($8.95) was a soggy mess. The vegetable Manchurian balls in this entree had been overcooked and crumbled at the touch of the fork. Indo Munch's chef must have worked hard to make this bad dish worse - the sauce in which the Vegetable Manchurian balls were set was unflavorful too.
Indo Munch's Chicken in Hot Garlic ($8.95) was a farce of an Indian Chinese dish. Perhaps, the only thing authentic in it were the chicken pieces. If this was Chicken in Hot Garlic, it was only in the chef's imagination. Lacking a strong flavor of either garlic or chillies, it looked and tasted like it'd been cobbled together in a hurry by a chef eager for his lunch break.
Indo Munch is the latest Indian Chinese restaurant to come up in Curry Hill (the stretch of Lexington Avenue between 31st and 27th St) known for its collection of Indian restaurants). With the growing popularity of this strand of Indian cuisine, New York and Long Island together must have at least 10 Indian Chinese restaurants now.
Indo Munch's main competitors in its neighborhood include Chinese Mirch and Indo Wok, both less than a five-minute walk down the road.
Indo Munch is owned by Dinu Mulloli, a young, Malayalee entrepreneur from Mahe (in South India) with a rich father in Bahrain. Dinu's wife looks after the family's software business.
Dinu worked at a cell phone store in Manhattan before opening Indo Munch in 2007, a far cry from running an Indian Chinese restaurant.
Dinu and his colleague Riyaz are friendly souls and seem eager to please. But we are not going to a restaurant to make friends, are we?
For dessert, we settled on Lychees with Ice Cream. They were good, so unlike the cheap Vanilla ice cream you encounter often at Indian restaurants. - © Rekha Inc.
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