As regular readers know, I never get tired of eating at the wonderful Mexican restaurants we are lucky enough to have around here. But on a trip to Central Jersey today I was captivated by the different ethnic restaurants that flourish there: in one strip mall along Route 1 there was an Indian curry and BBQ place (yes, that's what the sign said); a Jamaican restaurant; an Asian food store; and a Chinese restaurant. Toward Somerset there was a Hungarian diner, and a gyro place was about to open in what looked like an old gas station.
Route 1 is lined with not only shopping centers but also gigantic corporate headquarters, like Dow Jones and Novo Nordisk. I was especially intrigued by a sign pointing to the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Though that's doubtless an official part of the university, I got the feeling that in central Jersey "Princeton" is kind of like "Main Line" here; everyone tries to milk its cachet by appropriating the name.
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