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… they’re in Bellevue. The Stranger finally got hip to the Udupi Palace at Crossroads in Bellevue and made the trek over the water for some South Indian dosa action.  Not so much a restaurant review as a fawning ode to the dosa:

My masala dosa was crispy and airy and buttery; I kept eating long after I was full. The spiced potatoes inside seemed like they’d been cooked for days (a good thing) and the overall combination of flavors delighted me. “You’re looking rather pleased with yourself,” my wife said, and I grinned. Dosas make me happy.

Dosas make me happy, too. (Although I don’t understand why its taken The Stranger four years to realize dosas are just a short drive away.) Like writer Chris McCann, I too searched Seattle a dosa fix when I first moved to the area, not realizing how lucky I was to have relatively easy access to the Udupi Palace on Devon in Chicago … until the Crossroads location opened. Sure, it’s in Bellevue. Yes, it’s in a mall. But dosas! Just reading about them made me want one …

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