What’s on my plate « Selective Amnesia

9Jul/118

What’s on my plate

At a Tamil wedding in Madras.

Rumali Roti

Paneer Butter Masala (salted heavily, enough to float the Dead Sea)

Cutlets from Potato (fried so deep, they had to scuba dive to get it out. And a chisel to pierce the crust)

Oothappam, smaller in size than the Vadais you get at Saravana Bhavan

Insipid Coconut chutney, for said Oothappam

Something Magenta and sweet

Three florets of a Cauliflower Manchuri type thing

Potato curry, not too badly done.

Jamun

Onion, Cucumber and Carrot raitha

Soggy Pappadam (not AppaLam)

Something that passed for a mixture

Premixed Sambar rice, half a decent serving

Premixed Curd rice, ditto

Cut Mango pickle

And then they say Madras is not a cosmopolitan city.

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Susheel Chandradhas
July 9th, 2011 - 10:02

Ouch! That sounds painful. Food is not what it used to be, at weddings. I’d happily accept a good biruani over all this stuff…

Oh! But it’s in the morning! Hmmm

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Bratboy
July 9th, 2011 - 10:53

Nice finding ravages. They used to say that the true route to a mans heart is through his stomach… Here you confirm the true cosmopolitan part by the food in a tamil wedding

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aarti
July 9th, 2011 - 11:17

Whoa…. Whoa..

1st whoa- I am putting up a similar post

2nd whoa- whats happening to our weddings and food?

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Ramnath
July 9th, 2011 - 11:24

It’s reception, no? The wedding day will have a more Vazhai Ilai kind of saappadu i guess

Chennai is a good example of rooted cosmopolitanism.

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Dilip Muralidaran
July 9th, 2011 - 11:30

Human Rights Violation this is!

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Krish Ashok
July 10th, 2011 - 13:10

A truly cosmopolitan Chennai will discover 26 ways in which Rumali roti can be used to arouse one’s spouse

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Sesh
July 12th, 2011 - 10:37

something magenta and sweet = nameless sweet pachadi made from tomatoes or beetroot or both.

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Navneeth
July 18th, 2011 - 00:15

Let me see this mentioned in the latest edition of Lonely Planet and then I’ll believe you!

Oh, BTW, you misspelt manjuri and mixer.

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Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan is a copywriter, photographer and goofball from Chennai. He is also an archaeologist, historian and a city lover. He is currently a documentary film-maker and desk-monkey for a film production house.