On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Krish Ashok <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 26-Aug-09, at 4:03 PM, ss wrote:
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> Oh? Surely you mean Gobi Manjuri?
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Manjari.
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> Dal Makkaani
> Murg Makkani
Krish, I have heard both of these referred to as "dal makku" and "muruga
makku" (though never written that way.)
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> Chicken Vandalur
this one is new to me, what is the dish? could it be a fowl from the
Vandalur Zoo?
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> Aloo Matter
no, no, it does not matter, it mutters.
> i
Thandoori Rotti
not to forget the borottah.
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> and the ubiquitous Vegetable Kuruma, which masquerades as Mixed Vegetable,
> Veg Hyderabadi, Veg Jaipuri and Kadhai Vegetable at most weddings
A chef in a 5-star hotel once told me never to order mixed vegetables as it
would be yesterday's veg leftovers spiced up.
As one untranslatable Tamizh quip goes, "methi paratha-nna....athu nethi
paratha." (roughly, parathas are often yesterday's stuff.)
I frankly prefer the fresh food of most Darshinis ("outstanding" eateries--
where one stands and eats) to the often recycled food in the five-star
restaurants. I detest huge portions, that I cannot finish, and much prefer
the little thimblefuls of piping hot coffee in the darshinis, where I have
to worry about neither calories or caffeine, to the huge mugs of coffee in
upmarket coffee parlours, where, anyway, after the first few sips, I am just
drinking a tepid cupful, that's almost a meal in itself.
Deepa.
