Arrived at Bangalore last night. It is huge. And much cooler than the north.
Around lunch time I attempted to find the restaurant I was looking for. This entails getting to within 1 to 200 yards and asking repeatedly and applying the 1/2 second test to weed out utter rubbish, so after asking and walking around for 45 minutes I finally get decent directions and find the location (about 100 yards from where Google Maps has it.
I walk it and its fancier than the usual place I would have lunch at but hope its not too expensive as the guidebook says this is very cheap but it does not look cheap.
I order a thali (big tray with a dozen dishes laid out in a circle. Each one is excellent. Some of the best restaurant Indian I have had yet. Restaurant food tends not to be nearly as good as home food but....
Eggplant like a cloud, little veggies like tiny cucumbers sauteed with channa dahl. Sambar, Rasam, coconut chutney, mango pickle, fresh yogurt, fluffy rice, etc etc.
All quite delightful, but I finish all these and turn to the little sweet. It is one of the usual milk sweets where they slowly boil milk for hours until it thickens, but this one has sugar crystals in a parallel formation and is overwhelmingly delicious. So overwhelming all the other senses shut down in order to just focus on the intense deliciousness.
Now that is food!! And total bill was under $3
I go back for a simple dinner of uttapam (thick pancake of fermented rice and urad dahl) with some rasam and veggies and for desert a gulab jamun (a little cloud in hot sugar, cardamon, rose water syrup) also stunningly delicious. and all this for under $2
Around lunch time I attempted to find the restaurant I was looking for. This entails getting to within 1 to 200 yards and asking repeatedly and applying the 1/2 second test to weed out utter rubbish, so after asking and walking around for 45 minutes I finally get decent directions and find the location (about 100 yards from where Google Maps has it.
I walk it and its fancier than the usual place I would have lunch at but hope its not too expensive as the guidebook says this is very cheap but it does not look cheap.
I order a thali (big tray with a dozen dishes laid out in a circle. Each one is excellent. Some of the best restaurant Indian I have had yet. Restaurant food tends not to be nearly as good as home food but....
Eggplant like a cloud, little veggies like tiny cucumbers sauteed with channa dahl. Sambar, Rasam, coconut chutney, mango pickle, fresh yogurt, fluffy rice, etc etc.
All quite delightful, but I finish all these and turn to the little sweet. It is one of the usual milk sweets where they slowly boil milk for hours until it thickens, but this one has sugar crystals in a parallel formation and is overwhelmingly delicious. So overwhelming all the other senses shut down in order to just focus on the intense deliciousness.
Now that is food!! And total bill was under $3
I go back for a simple dinner of uttapam (thick pancake of fermented rice and urad dahl) with some rasam and veggies and for desert a gulab jamun (a little cloud in hot sugar, cardamon, rose water syrup) also stunningly delicious. and all this for under $2
No comments:
Post a Comment