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.
Friday, July 11, 2008
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...
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...
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Mumbaikars
While the mumbaikars have the knack of coming through difficult situations they also several bad traits. One of them is keeping the city unclean. There are several slogans/proverbs likes of Cleanliness is next to godliness; Clean Mumbai, Green Mumbai which absolutely make no sense to mumbaikars.
Slogan of Mumbai should be as under:
"We mumbaikars take it upon us to make sure that all corners in all public places are dirtied red by spitting gutkha, it is our responsibility to throw waste papers, gutkha wrappers and biscuit wrappers out of running trains, taxis, cars and buses. It is imperative that we open the door of our air conditioned car at all traffic signals to spit gutkha on the road"
Mumbaikars, look at what's happening to our city, we have dirtied all public places by plastic litter and dirt. Now that the rains have begun, we cannot miss the stench that this 'Kachra' is creating. We would not be able to survive like this! one day the 'kachra' is going to come into our houses and offices and choke us to our deaths; and righty so, unless we change the way we treat public places and our city in general. Couple of years back this kachra caused immense flooding in the city.
New Local trains were launched in Mumbai recently, nicely coloured in while and light purple; we made it a point to change the colour near the doors and under the windows to red within a weeks time (by spitting gutkha).
This is not done!!!Do we also do this at home???
We mumbaikars should stand up for the cleanliness of the city including the public places.
From today I have decided to boo any person spitting at public places or throwing dirt or answering natures calls on walls. I would also try to direct them to the nearest dustbin/loo.
Urge all to join me in this drive and keep our home, i.e. the city, clean.
P.s. Gutkha is a chewable mixture mainly containing tobacco, which has to be chewed and then spit as it is not potable...Kachra in local language means waste.
Slogan of Mumbai should be as under:
"We mumbaikars take it upon us to make sure that all corners in all public places are dirtied red by spitting gutkha, it is our responsibility to throw waste papers, gutkha wrappers and biscuit wrappers out of running trains, taxis, cars and buses. It is imperative that we open the door of our air conditioned car at all traffic signals to spit gutkha on the road"
Mumbaikars, look at what's happening to our city, we have dirtied all public places by plastic litter and dirt. Now that the rains have begun, we cannot miss the stench that this 'Kachra' is creating. We would not be able to survive like this! one day the 'kachra' is going to come into our houses and offices and choke us to our deaths; and righty so, unless we change the way we treat public places and our city in general. Couple of years back this kachra caused immense flooding in the city.
New Local trains were launched in Mumbai recently, nicely coloured in while and light purple; we made it a point to change the colour near the doors and under the windows to red within a weeks time (by spitting gutkha).
This is not done!!!Do we also do this at home???
We mumbaikars should stand up for the cleanliness of the city including the public places.
From today I have decided to boo any person spitting at public places or throwing dirt or answering natures calls on walls. I would also try to direct them to the nearest dustbin/loo.
Urge all to join me in this drive and keep our home, i.e. the city, clean.
P.s. Gutkha is a chewable mixture mainly containing tobacco, which has to be chewed and then spit as it is not potable...Kachra in local language means waste.
Monday, June 9, 2008
heavy rains in Mumbai
Heavy rains have hit Mumbai, quite sooner than expected...Accompanied by gusty wind blowing at 20-25 kms per hour. Something which mumbaikars have experienced rarely and possibly never on the 3rd day of the monsoons. Year by year the climate is getting harsher...winters have got colder, summers are hotter and monsoons are more fierce...
Worry is a repeat of what happened on 26th July 2005 when the city experienced the highest downpour in 100 years. While the municipal corporation claims to be 100% ready for the monsoons, the roads and the drains do not indicate the same. There are huge pot holes on roads...water clogging on the roads due to level differences and clogged drains. Time will tell how the municipal corporation would fare in this years monsoon exam...
People of Mumbai have the knack of getting ahead of the most difficult of situations in a very short span of time. 2005 it was the flooding on 26th July, on 28th July lives were back on track...Thats what I like the most about this city and hence would love to stay here all my life inspite of the potholes, clogged drains, heavy traffic, pollution, population etc...
Hats off to Mumbai and the spirit of mumbaikars...
Also this an excellent time to sit in a lounge chair reading a book with kanda bhaji (Onion pakoda) and adrak wali chai (tea flavoured with ginger)...Hope I would be able to enjoy that today...
Worry is a repeat of what happened on 26th July 2005 when the city experienced the highest downpour in 100 years. While the municipal corporation claims to be 100% ready for the monsoons, the roads and the drains do not indicate the same. There are huge pot holes on roads...water clogging on the roads due to level differences and clogged drains. Time will tell how the municipal corporation would fare in this years monsoon exam...
People of Mumbai have the knack of getting ahead of the most difficult of situations in a very short span of time. 2005 it was the flooding on 26th July, on 28th July lives were back on track...Thats what I like the most about this city and hence would love to stay here all my life inspite of the potholes, clogged drains, heavy traffic, pollution, population etc...
Hats off to Mumbai and the spirit of mumbaikars...
Also this an excellent time to sit in a lounge chair reading a book with kanda bhaji (Onion pakoda) and adrak wali chai (tea flavoured with ginger)...Hope I would be able to enjoy that today...
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