#podcast #Rajmi'sMusings #Day2
When you are in a foreign land and when you crave for your food that you used to get quite easily back in India, especially the vegetarian dishes, it is quite an entrhralling experience. Here in Ghana, you find a few lot of Indian restaurants, but not many serve the South Indian delicacies of Idly, Dosa or vada. Mostly all the restaurants serve both Veg and Non-Veg restaurants. We have been visiting one particular restaurant near to our place which serves these but per se we got so bored going there. I started looking out for options and when I got to know about one such restaurant when I visited the Indian fair held by the Indian High Commission -Ghana, I felt so elated. Met the manager here who hails from Tamil nadu and also saw the Indian Chef who was preparing the dishes with ease as and when the people asked for it.
So by Dec 26, 2022 which was a holiday here as the Christmas fell on a Sunday , me and my hubby decided to venture out to that restaurant to eat our lunch. On reaching that place, hubby was happy to recollect that this is the place where he got one of the best curd rice with his favourite mor molaga outside home .Mor Molaga - Curd Chilly. On grabbing the menu though we ordered Rawa Dosa, sambar idly and podi idly, we decided to go for the South Indian Thali instead. Even though we eat the sambar or rasam at home, having something like that outside and that too outside the country felt a delicacy for both of us and we did enjoyed it. So we decided to take our friends too.
We set out to that restaurant on the New Year day with 2 more friends family and one of them had a month old baby too. I personally was wondering whether the baby will like the food and I dont want her to be hungry but she relished both the idlies that we the bunch of vegetarians ordered and also the prawns that her mom and another friend ordered. The idly was soft and fluffy and the sambar they gave with it was quite good and so was the kara chutney. The rawa dosa was up to our expectation and the rawa masala dosa was def yummy esp the masal which was just like how we do it at home. Its def hard to see the yellow coloured masal even in the restaurants in Chennai.
To top it all we had wonderful filter coffee too. The aroma of brewing it kindled our senses a lot and as it is not that easy to get the filter coffee that we get back in Chennai we decided to go for it too.
One thing we felt about the idly and dosa is that they were a bit sweet and on enquiring the chef he said they do add sugar along with salt as they are grinding it in a larger quantity for the commercial purpose and they dont want it to become sour fast and then I realized it to be a good tip as we grind quite large quantity back in India that lasts for a week and on the 3rd day the batter starts getting sour,.
After the restaurant visit we visited an exclusive Chocolate outlet named Chocolate Sayari and had brownie with ice cream and a bowl of 3 different flavours of icecream. The Straw berrry ice cream is the one that I liked the most with the sourness of straw berry. The brownie was soft and the crunchies in the ice cream gave an entirely different taste. (Reminded me of Ibaco).
Thus our day out on the New Year was well spent. Listen to me talk on this.
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