Rashmun wrote:Oh and I asked them to include a large bowl of rasam in my order.

b_A wrote:

Rashmun wrote:Oh and I asked them to include a large bowl of rasam in my order.

Great ! This was the missing info for which all of us were looking.

Rashmun wrote:Ordered a small bowl of rasam, one pongal for consumption in the restaurant, and one pongal and one bisi bele bath packed (to go). The rasam was fantastic today but the pongal was only so so. There seemed to be a lot less uncrushed black pepper and it was dry and not slightly runny/watery like last time. I mentioned this to the waiter--same guy who served me last time--who said he is from Nizamabad(!) and he said the cook who made pongal for me last time is on leave today. For how long, I asked. One day was the reply. Every Wednesday that particular cook is on leave.

Rashmun wrote:Ordered a small bowl of rasam, one pongal for consumption in the restaurant, and one pongal and one bisi bele bath packed (to go). The rasam was fantastic today but the pongal was only so so. There seemed to be a lot less uncrushed black pepper and it was dry and not slightly runny/watery like last time. I mentioned this to the waiter--same guy who served me last time--who said he is from Nizamabad(!) and he said the cook who made pongal for me last time is on leave today. For how long, I asked. One day was the reply. Every Wednesday that particular cook is on leave.

Rashmun wrote:Ordered a small bowl of rasam, one pongal for consumption in the restaurant, and one pongal and one bisi bele bath packed (to go). The rasam was fantastic today but the pongal was only so so. There seemed to be a lot less uncrushed black pepper and it was dry and not slightly runny/watery like last time. I mentioned this to the waiter--same guy who served me last time--who said he is from Nizamabad(!) and he said the cook who made pongal for me last time is on leave today. For how long, I asked. One day was the reply. Every Wednesday that particular cook is on leave.

Jeremiah Mburuburu wrote:

b_A wrote:

Rashmun wrote:Oh and I asked them to include a large bowl of rasam in my order.

Great ! This was the missing info for which all of us were looking.

and who are "all of us?" people of the godavari delta who name themselves jaiprakash narayan and sandeep seetharamayya?

nenu wrote:The cooks who make the best south indian dishes (and some north indian too) at the two popular tamilnadu based restaurants here, sri krishna vilas and madras chettinad, are mexican.