▲ 57 r/FoodNYC

What is the best of the new upscale Indian restaurants?

I feel like there's been a flood of them: Ambassadors Clubhouse, Indienne, Musaafer, Kidilum, Mythili, Passerine.

Anyone have comments on what really stands out — and what dishes really stand out?

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u/turbid44 — 11 days ago

Any baguettes in LA that would be considered excellent in Paris?

I’ve tried some of the places often recommended here, like Bub and Grandma‘s, and they just aren’t at that level in my opinion. Or perhaps they simply have a different style.

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u/turbid44 — 1 month ago
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Anyone eaten Baroo’s vegan tasting menu recently?

If so what did you think?

Did you get a pairing and if so which one and how was it?

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u/turbid44 — 1 month ago

Has anyone tried Venus_gabby’s exercises? Do they work?

They seem interesting and very different. Just wondering if anyone had any experiences.

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u/turbid44 — 2 months ago

Who makes the best cheese enchiladas in LA?

I love the ones at Gloria’s in Highland Park and wanna know of any other worthy contenders.

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u/turbid44 — 2 months ago

What’s the coolest and most walkable area <30 mins drive from Santa Clarita?

I may have to commute to central Santa Clarita on a regular basis. I'm wondering what would be the area with the greatest number of cool bookstores, coffee shops, restaurants, bars, and so on, which is the most walkable, within a 30-minute drive?

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u/turbid44 — 2 months ago

Any older inflexible people get to do the splits — how?

What kind of splits (vertical or horizontal)?

What program did you follow and how long did it take?

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u/turbid44 — 3 months ago

Understanding a Bion quote

From the intro to Learning from Experience:

> Suppose I see the man walking. I may say that his walk is a function of his personality and that I find, after investigation, that the factors of this function are his love for a girl and his envy of her friend. Or that the factors in this function are his love for the girl and his envy of her friend. After further investigation I may decide that to his love for the girl is added envy of her friend; or F (his gait) = L + E. (F = function, L = love, E = envy). But I may feel that my observations approximate to the Kleinian theory of projective identification and that I can express my opinion of the facts best by saying the function walking is a sign that the patient feels he has taken into him a loved girl with whom he is identified and a rival of whom he is envious but with whom he has also identified himself, and that both objects are controlled by being enclosed in his legs.

Can someone explain this? I thought identification means that one takes on qualities of the identified-with object... so what would it mean in this case for the guy to be identified with his girlfriend and his rival? Does he take on their qualities?

And what does it mean that "both objects are controlled by being enclosed in his legs"?

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u/turbid44 — 3 months ago

When renting, how to assess good HVAC and plumbing?

It's really important to me in a new rental that I have an extremely powerful, modern HVAC and plumbing system. I want very powerful air conditioning, strong water pressure, a long hot water supply, etc.

Is there a good way to assess this sort of stuff before renting?

Also, are there any rules of thumb about the kinds of places that would have this? E.g. is newer construction better?

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u/turbid44 — 3 months ago

Pictures/Examples of Indian inns where people slept in courtyards together?

In Christopher Alexander's The Timeless Way of Building, a woman named Gita describes an Indian Inn as follows:

> There is a courtyard room where the people meet, and a place to one side of the courtyard where they eat, and also on one side there is the person who looks after the inn, and on the other three sides of the courtyard there are the rooms--in front of the rooms is an arcade, maybe one step up from the courtyard and about ten feet deep, with another step leading into the rooms. During the evening, everyone meets in the courtyard, and they talk and eat together--it is very special--and then at night, they all sleep in the arcade, so they are all sleeping together, round the courtyard. I think it is very important, too, that all the rooms are similar, so that when they stay here, all the people feel equal and free to talk to everyone else.

What are these kinds of inns called? Can anyone give me specific and famous examples of them?

Do they still exist today?

And does anyone have any pictures of what this setup would have looked like?

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u/turbid44 — 3 months ago