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We have daily dim sum service from 11am-2pm. We also offer tasty vegetarian and vegan dishes. In our Bar we have happy hours from 3pm to 6pm / Mon-Fri. Book now for our private rooms and banquet facilities. And don’t forget about our take out and delivery. In addition to all this, we’re open 365 Days / 11am-9:30pm and parking is never a problem.
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Ming’s Chinese Cuisine and Bar 1700 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto tel 650.856.7700 / fax 650.855.9479 / www.mings.com
Other Recipe Sack options include vermicelli uppma ($3), with cashews and noodles (add ginger, peas and other veggies); dosas ($2.50); and vegetable pulav ($3), with basmati rice and cashews. Kichdi ($2.50), a comfort food of lentils and rice, is Rao’s husband’s favorite. It’s a simple porridge-like dish that can be fancied up with eggplant, potatoes, raita or stir-fried greens. Today, Rao is putting together a sack for vegetable pulav in the shared commercial-kitchen space she rents in San Jose. Recipe experimentation may be done at home, but all assembly is reserved for the commercial space. Wearing a Recipe Sack T-shirt, with a white iPhone peeking out of her cargo-pant pocket, Rao spoons turmeric powder into a small plastic bag, following it with mild chili powder, “a pinch of cinnamon,� garam masala, cumin and others. The brilliant spices gleam like a sunset. Every now and then, a refreshing blast of cold air sweeps through the warm kitchen as another cook opens a walk-in fridge. “It’s fun,� Rao says, closing the bag with a plastic-film sealer. “Some days I do it as an assembly line.� She places the plastic bag inside a drawstring linen sack; she’s chosen the linen in hopes of being eco-friendly, and orders the biodegradable plastic bags online. Rao opens another sack, this one containing the fixings for lemon rice. “With a side salad, it’s a full meal,� she says.
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A full vegetarian meal, of course. Rao doesn’t eat meat, and all her recipes are vegetarian, though when asked she may give advice on incorporating chicken stock into a rice dish. Her recipes are also free of cream, something she says she sees too much of in Indian restaurants. She tries to make her dishes feel less heavy. The business could be seen as a culinary inheritance. Rao grew up enjoying her mother’s recipes, and her father is a foodie who loved to take the family to favorite restaurants. Rao came to the United States in 1997 to earn a master’s degree in communications at Wayne State University in Detroit. A career as a public-relations consultant followed as she lived in various American cities (she met her husband in Cincinnati). The family came to the Bay Area in 2007. Interested in a career change, Rao decided to work in products instead of services, and her experiments in the kitchen started to seem like a potential business. She started selling the sacks at a school boutique in 2011. Now Recipe Sack is her full-time job. Rao estimates that she has about 50 repeat customers, and that she sells about 150 sacks at each trunk show. She hasn’t done much marketing, but plans to start an augmented campaign, upgrading her website and trying to get her products into stores. In the meantime, she’s back in her kitchen, experimenting away. She hopes to soon supplement her Indian offerings with African and Middle Eastern dishes. N
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