The curry at the budget foodies' paradise Bangla Büfé on Akácfa utca in District VII is still fast and tasty, but without the renowned Bangladeshi chef known as Mimmo, who was recently spooned a bit of unwanted curry by the Hungarian immigration authorities and deported. According to Multi-Kulti, a local affiliate of global human rights NGO Amnesty International, Mimmo (last name unknown) was handed a non-refundable, non-exchangeable one-way ticket out of the country on April 19. Meanwhile, Multi-Kulti said in an email that Mimmo, who spent his first months in Hungary in a refugee camp, was a "model immigrant," having learned to speak Hungarian while on route to becoming the tax-paying proprietor of a successful local business. They also said he was in the country legally, an assertion that might be taken with a grain of salt given that he was deported.

Bangla - which we reviewed after it opened last year - is still open for business, and Mimmo's case hasn't closed either. An immigrants' rights group called LMV has launched a campaign to "Bring Back Mimmo" and begun lobbying the Hungarian authorities, who to date have been silent on the issue. We'd say a good way to make his case would be to send over some curry to whomever is responsible for Mimmo's fate, though that might be risky, because if it's still as good as when Mimmo was cooking, they might not see any pressing reason to have him back cooking in Budapest.