[Calcutta Indian Food] 加爾各答印度料理餐廳搬家了

我本來喜歡吃的西門町美食－－加爾各答印度料理，本來是在昆明街誠品大樓對面，前兩星期臨時想去吃時，竟然不見了，變成中華電信門號店了。



回家上網一找，原來他搬到萬年大樓地下美食街了。今天看完電影後到萬年大樓來，逛一下陪伴我高中歲月時的動漫精品店，以及地下室的印度咖哩店。



進去點菜時，菜單的菜色以及價格都沒有變化，他的香料羊肉咖哩還是一樣又香又好吃，可是怎麼餐廳的客人少了一半？以前常在這兒常看到外國客人來吃，現在四桌中只有一桌是外國人，而且還是本國人帶領進來。

結帳時問老闆，果然，又是店租漲價的問題。他原本在昆明街一樓的店租是一個月十萬，但中華電信想要搶他的那地點，就向房東出兩倍的價錢。老闆的小餐廳無法負擔一個月二十萬店租的成本，所以只好搬到萬年大樓地下室。萬年大樓的地下美食街，雖然人潮很多，但大多是學生族群，他們的消費多在一百元上下，而加爾各答最便宜的套餐也要220。難怪很多學生族群在店門口前觀望一下菜單就離開了。

我在萬年大樓四樓逛時，再也找不到以前那些動漫精品店。取而代之的是iPad、iPhone手機包膜、韓國偶像精品，唯一剩上跟動漫有關的是賣模型。沒想到蘋果、三星這些手機帝國不僅打垮了台灣的電子業，連看似跟手機毫無瓜葛的餐廳、動漫精品店也受到影響！

網路、手機等行業的興起，不只是音樂產業受影響，連不相干的餐廳也受池魚之泱。如果這些人因經濟結構轉型而失業，政府又不可能輔導全部的人都去寫手機APP，這該怎麼辦呢？

Two weeks ago in XingMengDing, I planned to go to Calcutta Indian Food, to enjoy their mutton masala curry, but the restaurant was gone! The original site on No 126, KunMing street is replaced by ChungHwa TeleCom store. I returned home, and searched for the information of the Calcutta Indian restaurant. I found the store is moved to Basement of WanNian Building, in XiMengDing.

This evening, I went to the restaurant in the basement of WanNian Building. Their mutton masala curry is still delicious and yummy. However, the number of guests coming here is reduced to only half of the past. While paying the bill, I asked restaurant owner. As I expected, the landlord raised the rent. ChungHwa Telecom coveted their past site, and bid the rent to double, as two hundred thousand NT dollars per month. Therefore, the owner can't offer such higher rent, and moved their restaurant to the basement of WanNian building.

The confluence of crowds in WanNian seems large, but most of them are students, whose levels of consumption are around one hundred NT dollars. The lowest price of Calcutta Indian Food is two hundred and twenty NT dollars, which is not an affordable price for crowds of students.

I browsed the fourh floor of WanNian Building, and I couldn't find any merchandising of the Anime and Manga which I've seen during my youth ages. Most of them are replaced by merchandising of iPhone and iPad. The rest of stores, that at most can be categorized as Anime, are selling model figures. I can't imagine, even the restaurants and the anime merchandising sotre, which were thought as the most unlikely victims, are also suffered by the invasion of Apple/Samsung smartphone empires.