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New York Coffee: To The Rescue!

When you can't get into the Karachi Eat Festival because the traffic is insane (Starting from Metropole), you circle around 4 times looking for space, can't find it and decide it's just not worth the hassle, you end up deciding not to waste the outing and go somewhere peaceful instead. With all of Karachi at the Karachi Eat Festival, Zamzama was peaceful and full of free parking.

Let's get the bad out of the way first. Why oh why would you mess with perfection, NYC? The crust was soggy, the cheesecake itself too sweet, and overall quite disappointing. The manager present told me the new formula cheesecake had just been imported and my first reaction was, 'WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?' Put in a request a to bring the old version back. Sigh.

The good parts however, are the coffee and the sample platter. Delivered as I asked for, double shot espresso, frothy, creamy delicious coffee goodness. My friend enjoyed his hot chocolate, but I didn't taste it.

The sample platter was brilliant, as usual. Love the crispy onion rings, tender, spicy, tangy and juicy chicken wings, the mini burgers were dripping juice from the patty, and the buns held everything together very well. I'm not such a fan of chicken strips, but NYC knows how to do them. The sauces too, are just the way they're supposed to be. Fiery and tangy buffalo sauce, creamy and mellow ranch sauce, along with my not-so-favorite but goes so well with onion rings barbecue sauce and of course, everyone loves honey mustard sauce.

No pictures because we were staaahhviiinnggg.

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