There's toasted coconut in watery kheer ($3.55) rice pudding. Mango khulfi ($3.95) ice cream is smooth and tropical and rashmalai ($3.55) cheese patties are like ricotta cakes afloat in sugary, condensed milk.
The room is lovely, with celadon walls, salmon-hued table linens and hand-painted murals. Service is extra-attentive and helpful.
Mohammad Askandar Alam possesses a gastronomically global world view. Mightn't a dinner table make a better negotiating table? If warring nations would only sit down and share a meal at Taste of India-Shanti, surely they'd lay down their swords and shields . . . and stuff themselves silly.
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