At any
Darshini restaurant in Bangalore

the south Indian "filter kaapi" (coffee that has been percolated through a filter, and always made with milk) is first poured into the glasses, where the colour gleams invitingly in the sunlight.


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How apt a sign for our times, when God is incorporated!


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A friend of mine, Kiran Srivastava from Mumbai, went to Aromas of China in Mumbai, and here's the bill he got:


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Found this lovely name on a restaurant signboard on the way back from Kaziranga...


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On a mailing list I belong to, someone asked:

Can the 'fresh brewer' experts recommend a reasonably priced (<$1000)
> coffee machine? One that makes 2-3 cups ber brew.

My response:

I find that a

1.
Vietnamese coffee filter has some of the features my south Indian coffee filter lacks (bakelite handles to lift the hot top container off, a ( Read more... )

I won't eat

here

or

here

or

here

...here's another for the list:


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One of the places that typifies Pondy Bazar, in Theagaraya Nagar (no one EVER calls it that, it's only referred to as T.Nagar! More about initial names for areas later)....is

Sri Balaji Bhavan

...there's been a restaurant (in Tamil Nadu we call them "hotels") around on this spot for as long as I can remember.

( more about Balaji Bhavan..and do you want the police on your doorstep? )

We went to another Ethiopian restaurant, just for a change from

Selam

...this was

( the Ethiopian restaurant )

While D's mom was in St.Louis to help celebrate KTB's birthday picnic, we decided to walk around the Loop, and had dinner at

Ranoush

a Middle-Eastern cuisine place which seems to have very contradictory reviews (see the link above!)....

We enjoyed seeing the "Arab" tent dining area:


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I have *thousands* (well, quite a few!) posts to make. Visits to Kolkata, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Thattekkad in Kerala, B R Hills in Karnataka...field trips reports are clamouring to be made, photographs yelling to be uploaded...

The past few days, I've been walking mainly in the

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