Location, Location, Location: Ebeneezer's
By Christopher St Cavish, Feb 8th, 2010 | In Nightlife
Delhi Zaika's Pakistani BBQ and cold baingan bharta was a favorite of mine. Their location, on an out-of-the way Hongqiao street, killed them. They closed recently. Took some time to think about it. Re-grouped. And opened a new restaurant, Ebeneezer's. On Zhangdong Lu.
Where the hell is that?
I'll tell you. I went today. You take Metro line two to Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, where the subway system goes above ground and connects to these new Maglev-looking street trolleys. And then you take a motorcycle taxi. You turn left at the field of cucumbers, right at the sprawling car dealerships, and then when you feel yourself fall off the map, you look for the low-rise corporate campuses devouring the farmland. That's Zhangdong Lu. To my surprise, it is home to a Charmant.
ToDelhi Zaika Ebeneezer's great pleasure, they've discovered that it's also home to a captive audience of foreign IT professionals, many of them Indian, with not many lunch options. There's also a bunch of Hongkie and Singaporeans out there, and, so what once was an authentic Indian restaurant is now more of a corporate canteen, with sandwiches, Canto food, and biryani.
Anyway, it's not the Delhi Zaika of old. And it's not an offshoot of the Hong Kong doner kebab chain, Ebeneezer's. But if you live in Jinqiao, have a car, or were wondering what happened to Delhi Zaika, there you go. They snubbed downtown once and failed. They snubbed it even harder, and found success. Good for them. Location, location, location.
Where the hell is that?
I'll tell you. I went today. You take Metro line two to Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, where the subway system goes above ground and connects to these new Maglev-looking street trolleys. And then you take a motorcycle taxi. You turn left at the field of cucumbers, right at the sprawling car dealerships, and then when you feel yourself fall off the map, you look for the low-rise corporate campuses devouring the farmland. That's Zhangdong Lu. To my surprise, it is home to a Charmant.
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Anyway, it's not the Delhi Zaika of old. And it's not an offshoot of the Hong Kong doner kebab chain, Ebeneezer's. But if you live in Jinqiao, have a car, or were wondering what happened to Delhi Zaika, there you go. They snubbed downtown once and failed. They snubbed it even harder, and found success. Good for them. Location, location, location.
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