One Life

My first cousin is getting married tomorrow and this is going to be the first wedding in close circle of relatives. Now, I have been to many weddings and found the ceremony as such, boring. In South India, we have long ceremonies and for people who can enjoy music and dance, these weddings are a drag, except for senior citizens who can talk for days about other people. Despite being not such a great fan of weddings with customs and stuff, yours' truly decided to take part actively in the wedding and be the bride's maid.

I got a round of mehandi yesterday and a bunch of new sarees. Just as I thought I was overdoing it, I heard of some aunties who were sitting in the beauty parlor all day long and for many days. Offf!
A few cousins planned to put up some dance sequences. So with all the thoughts of dancing and running around for the next two days, I already feel so stressed out and exhausted and yet, I am not performing the marriage or getting married. Wonder how people keep their energy levels...

So my schedule for tomorrow is make up woman in the morning, safe room guard through the day, make up woman during ceremony intervals and show case doll in the evening. Well, the last one because my mom plans to bribe the photographer to take some photos of me which are showable to prospective grooms. Hope to have a great time...

Since I started writing review for food joints, I thought of including this old time favorite. Kedia's Fun Food is in Jayanagar 4 block opposite to Sweet Chariot Cafe. Years ago, when I was in college and could not afford the posh Sweet Chariot Cafe but still needed a bit of spicy food, I hit this chaat shop. Since then I have been a big fan of Fun Food's chaats and parathas. They had a few stools to sit and eat but no tables. So if you have a plate of food and a glass of lassi together. Invariably on weekends when you dont get a table in a pricey restaurant, you just go to this little shop, get a couple of parathas and a fresh sweet. So that makes your good lunch of Rs.50/-

Despite being a fan of experimental food, I had never really experimented Bengali cuisines. Except the sweets ofcourse. And that, because my best friend is Bengali. And now that my boss is Bengali, I had to try the rest of the Bong buffet. No regrets, I totally enjoyed the buffet at Esplanade in Koramangala.

The buffet has lesser variety for vegetarians. Well, I wasn't really expecting veg-bengali food. But yeah, they could have easily included the more common Rasgulla and Mishti Dohi and Dohi Boda.

There were 2 starters, 1 vegeterian.. like alu bajji. The other was fried fish. Maybe that wasn't a starter! They served a few starters to our table. Not sure if we ordered them. 2-3 veg dishes, a few chicken and fish dishes, luchi (that is a poori made of maida), rice and dal. One dish was a banana plant mashed to make kofta. It was sweetish tasting. and then there was banana flower mashed and fried to make a starter. This was also sweetish.