On the SE side of El Camino/Lawrence Expy in the mid '90s in suburban strip mall hell was an Indian restaurant run by a superlative cook who would get very grum

On the SE side of El Camino/Lawrence Expy in the mid '90s in suburban strip mall hell was an Indian restaurant run by a superlative cook who would get very grumpy if you tried to direct her away from her fixed price "meal". So we would gather up 6 or so eaters and just have her serve us. It was always a surprise and insanely good. Couldn't tell you what it cost. Anyway, we were there to eat her food, and she let you know it. We always brought our toddler and at the beginning the lady says assertively something like "I'll take her" and hauls our daughter around the corner. So after about 20 minutes of no sign of daughter I decide to go take a peek at the situation. Well it turns out she has a daughter of her own, Down's Syndrome, it appears to be, and our daughter and the cook's daughter were having a fine time hanging out at the end of the corridor around the corner. I went back to the table and finished our excellent meal. We are always interested in these sorts of things and now we find them more commonly off the beaten track in Mexico.