This was the indian buffet i went to the other night, had to write a review for our magazine, which i've posted below... Having recently arrived from Britain, a country obsessed with consuming curry and beer, I was ecstatic to discover the Shanghai Punjabi Restaurant. Fair enough the décor maybe tacky, O.K. the bhangra music in the background is deafening and yes, the displays of dancing from the staff are more than a bit clichéd, but they do an all you can eat Indian buffet for RMB80, which includes, and this is the best bit, all the beer you can drink. Housed in a concrete block, up two flights of stairs, overlooking a dingy alleyway, this certainly isn’t the classiest venue in Shanghai, but then, no one interested in stuffing their face with curry and downing
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