Place of Purchase: GS25, Incheon, Jung-Gu
Cost: 2200 KRW ($1.95)
KCal: 308
Interesting, first time I've run into an Indian-inspired sandwich in my travels here. The calorie count is quite sensible on this one and looks handsome and presentable through the cellophane. After looking it up, the word "makhani" means butter, so the name is redundant.
Indian food reminds me of my Aunt Linda. I only met her twice in my memory. Once at my grandmother's house when I was six or seven, and another time when I was eight, my mom drove me and my brother to her commune in West Virginia. She was a Hare Krishna, a sect of Hinduism. Her new name was Hladini. We stayed there for a few days. It was an agrarian self-sustaining community. The people were very gentle and I remember them almost constantly chanting. My brother and I just roamed the farm and the woods surrounding it, there was so much to see, catching frogs in the stream, playing with the goats and baby cows. It was a wondrous immersion into an idyllic lifestyle. The food was all Indian-vegetarian, and even now the scent of curry takes me back to the common dining hall with life-sized and colorful deities all around. I recall a great feast and celebration because it was Krishna's birthday and I got some minor celebrity on the farm because it was my birthday too, and they considered that to be auspicious. I have great memories of that visit. I don't remember Hladini well except that she was exceptionally devoted, and kind in the way she spoke to me.
She died in Africa in 1990. She went there to do missionary work and was executed with 6 others by a Liberian Warlord named Prince Johnson. He also tortured, killed and allegedly ate the president of the country. That's no typo. He ate the dude. He is currently a senior senator there and running for president. It would appear the justice system is broken in that part of Africa.
There is a slice of sandwich cheese mixed with what appears to be a sort of chicken salad. Its taste is not unpleasant, a decent curry taste, I suppose enough like butter chicken. There is a nice amount of spiciness but not unpleasantly so. There's a pleasant bit of texture in the salad with corn and chopped onion. Everything works together well here. It's not singing to me, but it's not bad at all. There is a very small amount of chicken in it, but overall it's a solid and tasty sandwich. 3.75 stars (Deduction for scant amount of chicken)
Indian food reminds me of my Aunt Linda. I only met her twice in my memory. Once at my grandmother's house when I was six or seven, and another time when I was eight, my mom drove me and my brother to her commune in West Virginia. She was a Hare Krishna, a sect of Hinduism. Her new name was Hladini. We stayed there for a few days. It was an agrarian self-sustaining community. The people were very gentle and I remember them almost constantly chanting. My brother and I just roamed the farm and the woods surrounding it, there was so much to see, catching frogs in the stream, playing with the goats and baby cows. It was a wondrous immersion into an idyllic lifestyle. The food was all Indian-vegetarian, and even now the scent of curry takes me back to the common dining hall with life-sized and colorful deities all around. I recall a great feast and celebration because it was Krishna's birthday and I got some minor celebrity on the farm because it was my birthday too, and they considered that to be auspicious. I have great memories of that visit. I don't remember Hladini well except that she was exceptionally devoted, and kind in the way she spoke to me.
She died in Africa in 1990. She went there to do missionary work and was executed with 6 others by a Liberian Warlord named Prince Johnson. He also tortured, killed and allegedly ate the president of the country. That's no typo. He ate the dude. He is currently a senior senator there and running for president. It would appear the justice system is broken in that part of Africa.
There is a slice of sandwich cheese mixed with what appears to be a sort of chicken salad. Its taste is not unpleasant, a decent curry taste, I suppose enough like butter chicken. There is a nice amount of spiciness but not unpleasantly so. There's a pleasant bit of texture in the salad with corn and chopped onion. Everything works together well here. It's not singing to me, but it's not bad at all. There is a very small amount of chicken in it, but overall it's a solid and tasty sandwich. 3.75 stars (Deduction for scant amount of chicken)
