Andy’s Mom, Audrey, has had a long-time friendship with her neighbor Jayashri. Occasionally, they will accompany each other, along with Jayashri’s son Vineet, to Edison, NJ for a Sunday shopping trip all things Indian. Kim has been interested in joining them for one of these trips for a while now, and she had the opportunity to do so this past weekend.
Jayashri is one of the kindest, most hospitable people our family has ever known. Andy’s parents have been neighbors with her for 23 years. She has always shown us, Audrey in particular, what it means to share one’s culture. Over the past couple of decades we’ve known her as a wife, mother to a intellectually handicapped son, widower, and friend. She is always quick to invite us to her home for dinner,or on a Sunday drive to Edison, and, eventually, to India itself!
We started the trip with a buffet style lunch at Chutney Mary, 3793 US Highway 1 South, Monmouth Junction, New Jersey 08852. We knew we were in for well made, “real” Indian food with Jayashri as our guide, and it was exactly that. On Sundays, they offer a full buffet for $20. This isn’t your local Chinese buffet, this is good Indian food.
After lunch we continued North to Edison where we were taken on the tour of “little India”. This is a town full of Indian shops. They range from salons specializing in thread hair removal, to jewelers, to souvenir/trinket shops, to dollar stores, to bakeries, to restaurants, and most importantly grocers. We did a bit of it all.
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