Jazz Festival in Paris

This week Paris is quietly attending the Jazz Festival at various venues. So I searched on the net for a club and found the China Club. So Rob (a canadian friend, with Italian roots and engineering background like me) and me went to the club after an Indian meal of Mutter-Paneer (gravy dish of peas and cottage cheese) with Rice at my place which he enjoyed! But we were in for a surprise as we got down at a station which was quite far from the Club. However, we decided to walk and what a walk it was...we crossed almost 5-6 metro stations on foot! Finally reached the place which turned out to be wonderful. Extremely elegant and had a good crowd. But the Jazz set was about to end and hence we decided to have something at the Club and discussed alot of issues like world politics, religion and interestingly similarities between Italian and Indian cultures!
Incidentally, Italian society is also patriarchic and women do alot of house-hold work which is a fast changing trend in India as well. Moreover he pointed out how Italian women put on weight after marriage...sounds like India? I will very soon get to eat authentic Italian food cooked by Rob with lots of "oregano"!! One source of authentic Italian food is in the college restaurant where Pizza served is very good (though full of cheese) but its very much unlike the US-Indo pizzas available in Indian outlets. No wonder there are not many Domino's and Pizza Hut outlets here as every other cafe (and there are 60,000 of them in Paris) offers those original pizzas.
I realise the topic of this blog was about the Jazz Festival!
Now that the topic has shifted to food, one more piece of information. I once went to a restaurant near Eiffel in a place called Ecole Militaire...named Hotel Punjab for Indian food. And guess wat, it is owned by a Pakistani and run (operations) by Bangladeshis!