...Aashiayana is still the premium priced brand reduced range, great story too, we sold the real estate in about 95 and built a food processing plant in New Lynn doing frozen curries, sauces and marinades, leavened breads and pies, great story too - but the best stories are from the Aaash in Crummer Road, the parties, the bands, the agency lunches, the well!! hahaha, I lived upstairs in the Studio apartment when I was promoting and tour managing,..

...omg Russell, the Monday Night Problem Drinkers Club and the love of jangly guitar bands, hahaha, oh the memories, not that any of us had drinking problems, hahaha, just could buy a drink anywhere on a Monday night back then - more so though [we] my family, did the first Indian restaurant in New Zealand 1978, the Aashiayana, which started life in KRoad, down stairs where the INK Bar is nowa days, then in 84 we did the upmarket version in Crummer Road, the brand was sold to Top Hat in 2001, now Wattie's owned and still available in supermarkets...