{"id":61673,"date":"2025-11-23T13:36:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T13:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/61673\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T13:36:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T13:36:24","slug":"behind-the-oldest-indian-restaurant-in-houston-texas-monthly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/61673\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Oldest Indian Restaurant in Houston \u2013 Texas Monthly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editors\u2019 note: This segment first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/tm-presents-pbs-series\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Monthly Presents<\/a>, a television program airing on Texas PBS stations and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/show\/texas-monthly-presents-the-story\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PBS.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Contributor Megha McSwain and her family moved from Mumbai to Houston in 1986\u2014the same year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/food\/raja-sweets-houston-diwali\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Raja Sweets<\/a> opened its doors in west Houston\u2019s Mahatma Gandhi District. She explains how the restaurant and bakery has served generations of immigrants seeking to find familiar aspects of culture in a new home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editors\u2019 note: This segment first appeared on Texas Monthly Presents, a television program airing on Texas PBS stations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,56,58,57,9543],"class_list":["post-61673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-food","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-indian-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}