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| Ballston
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| Ballston's main welcome sign, which doubles as a covered walkway, is
nicely decorated with colorful geometric patterns.
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| Dinner at Bamian
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We ate Afghani food for dinner at Bamian in Falls Church.
Incidentally, the door was made of green glass--how unusual.
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The sambosa were basically potato samosa with a thin crust and
spicy-sweet sauce.
| Mantu: meat and onion dumplings covered with yogurt sauce. (Most have
been eaten.) Flavored with dill. Not that meaty. Decent.
| Chopan kabob: lamb ribs. Tender meat, grilled well.
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| Kabob murgh: mustardy chicken breast. (Most has been eaten.) Decent.
| Vegetarian platter. Clockwise from upper-left: subzi (spinach), kadu
(mashed pumpkin), and baunjan (mashed eggplant). The
spinach/collards, cooked in oil and garlic, were soft, almost like an
Indian aloo dish. I liked it. The pumpkin mash (which tasted more
like sweet poatoes) were decent. It was sweetened. The eggplant
tasted more like a tangy tomato mush. It was okay.
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The Afghani bread was like a cross between Indian naan and pita bread. Eh.
| Goshe feel ("elephant ear"): thin cracker-like bread topped with
ground pistachios and powdered sugar. I loved the pistachio crumbs.
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| Fodder for Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing
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