Good Ducking Burger has opened at 7929 Norfolk Avenue in downtown Bethesda. The casual Indian-inspired burger bistro from chef-owner Ashish Alfred replaces his award-winning Duck Duck Goose in the Woodmont Triangle space. Delivery is available from UberEats. Alfred's growing collection of restaurants in the D.C. and Baltimore areas has landed him on the cover of Baltimore Magazine's October 2023 Taste Makers issue.
Wouldn't Indian-inspired burgers be meatless? Also, I'm as broad-minded as the next guy, but isn't Good Ducking Burger a terrible name for a restaurant. Maybe they can sell wine slushies.
ReplyDeleteThey'd be vegetarian and chicken, for sure. It's a terrible name, up there with "Salty Balls" as a concept for a meatball restaurant.
ReplyDeleteIndian chicken dishes involve a long slow stewing so that the sauce penetrates into the meat. This place is going to struggle to keep a deep fried chicken patty with two types of sauce from getting soggy, and if they do manage it, there won't be much flavor. Forget Doordash or uberEats entirely! The same goes for the fries - double sauces means major soggy problems.
The fusion of Indian food with burgers and the untoward name turn me off enough to not even try the place. I guess they could call it "Masala Dead Cow."
Delete@4:32 PM: The solution to soggy fries is Tater Tots. That's what Domino's says anyway.
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Apparently Tater Tots stay more crispy on delivery than fries do.
You get soggy fries from either cooking them in oil that wasn't hot enough, or from cooking them in too large of a a batch which overcrowds the pan and reduces the heat. Frying them twice is the way to go.
Cooked fries get soggy when covered or enclosed. That’s why carry-out fries are served in an open box, in a tray or in an open top paper bag.
@9:34 - Allow me to suggest you have some Cluck-U food. It will do you some good.
ReplyDeleteOn mostly a humorous note, I now see what 'cultural appropriation' is all about. I hold certain obscenities dear and use them when I think most (in) appropriate. I'm a bit peeved that maybe someone from another culture (not being judgmental in that per se) uses what I reserve in my Native English bag of tricks, in advertising. It's both somewhat off-putting and serves to water down the effect that of the word that I judiciously use.
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