Friday, July 11, 2008

Restaurants in Mumbai - Rama Krishna

Hi,
Am quite a foodie myself, thought it would be appropriate to share my experiences at various restaurants/food joints in Mumbai. This is the first.
Name: hotel Rama Krishna
Location: Opposite the railway station, Vile Parle (EAST). Vile Parle is a suburb on Mumbai' western railway.
Why Rama Krishna first??? Because it my most visited food joint. This place has two floors, the ground floor is non-ac and gives you the complete Udipi feeling. the first floor is air conditioned and quite suave...
South Indian and Punjabi foods are the ones primarily served here. Since this place has an Udipi origin the south Indian food is very tasty and yet very standardised. the taste of the sambar has not changed since I started going there (more than 15 years back). Am sure their standardisation of taste would beat big Mac.
Punjabi food is also quite good and standardised but the taste and menu contents are similar to most other places.
The thing that I dislike about this place (specially the ground floor) is the haste with which everything gets done. Before you take your seat, some guy would have put down glasses of water and mind you they would be exactly the same in number as the guests to be seated. The waiter would come and place the menu in your hand and expect you to order instantly. The food would arrive to your table within 3-4 minutes. When you are having your last few bites the waiter would arive and nag you into ordering chai/coffee/colddrinks...if you say no, you would have the bill on your table within a minute.
This is a good place if you are in a hurry and a very bad place for people who wish to catch up with friends over a meal.
All in all I like the place. Hope you visit, do eat the mysore masala dosa and wada sambar in south Indian and Chole Bhatoore from the Punjabi cuisine.

Thursday, July 10, 2008

My Son

Writing after a month....
last week end my son accompanied me to the temple...he does accompany me some times, so what was different last time?
At the entrance of the temple there is a shoe stand having pigeon holes to place shoes prior to entering. Normally I place my shoes on the rack and my son places his pair on top of my pair....This time around it was different, he placed his pair in a different pigeon hole....
One side of my brain told me that this meant nothing, just that he placed it in the pigeon hole closest to him...the other side refused to accept this as an explanation....my heart agreed with the latter...
I am really happy that my son (2 year 9 months old) has started to create his own identity, he has started believing that he is a separate person and needs to have his own...Also very surprisingly it saddens me that this is his first step away from me...As they say the birds grow and fly out of the nest and to my heart this felt as though the first step towards flying away...
Happy Sad combo experience indeed...