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The Jackson Heights Hangover

You wake up outside the New York Public Library. A friendly MTA employee hands you your wallet as you rub sleep from your eye. Inside the wallet is your ID, your twitter log-in, and a few mementos from a raucous party the night before. Then it hits you: you were in Jackson Heights last night, the groom has gone missing, and his wedding is in 3 hours.

You and your team of four jump on the 7 train to Jackson Heights.  In between deciphering puzzles tweeted by the missing husband-to-be, you all feast on an array of Nepali and Pakistani morsels. A quick bite of banaras special paan here, a tawa brain masala there, and plenty of fried momos for everyone.

After a couple hours of solving clues and learning about this cultural corner of Queens, teams rest and celebrate their cleverness and hard work over beers and momos with the groom. Wedding saved!

Length:  3 hours
Event:    Food Tasting Tour
Players: Gastronauts Club Members
Food Curator: Joe DiStefano, Chopsticks + Marrow

Gastronauts, a New York dining club with the mission "to taste the strange and authentic foods found on menus around this city," asked Interactive Escapes to team up once more to throw their members into the tasty neighborhood of Jackson Heights.