FLUSHING, NEW YORK,October 31, 2022 (NY Ganesh Temple): Is it a restaurant or is it God’s Abode? Down in the basement of the Hindu Temple Society is a hidden gem where you can get the most amazing South Indian food and sumptuous dosas and vadas you will see in your dreams. Popularly known as Ganesh Canteen, its formal name is Temple Canteen. It has been around since 1963. With the grace and blessings of Shri Maha Vallabha Ganapati, the Temple canteen was started in 1993 – mainly to prepare naivedyam (food offering) to the Deities in accordance with agama sastras. The canteen now plays an important role, not only to prepare naivedyam for the temple, but also to provide delicious, pure vegetarian food for devotees.
There’s a special flavor to food when you’re eating in with the Gods and the hand of devotees has put it before you. After a visit to the Hindu Temple Society, the oldest and most beautiful Hindu temple in Flushing, Queens it just makes perfect sense to walk down the stairs into the basement canteen with its huge welcoming sculptures of Sri Ganesha and the Goddess Lakshmi and see a whole cavernous space filled with ordinary people. It is a restaurant, canteen and takeout space all rolled into one. It is clean and fast, orderly and the line moves quickly. You can get every South Indian delicacy you desire from vadas and idli to Pondicherry dosas and many North Indian delicacies too. All in all, it has over a hundred Indian vegetarian food items and snacks are now available at the canteen throughout the year.
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All details of the huge menu are at:
https://canteen.nyganeshtemple.org/