The country is not too far from Indian in all ways espesically food and people , one gets a typical chennai feeling.Though i am okay to stay away from home as i have been always (24 yeas with grandparents and almost another 6 years now "home away home " ,i am quite particular about food not all the time atleast on a specific occasion(except the thai vegetable curry and the Italian Bruschetta (though i am a big fan of both cuisines)- My friend Abhi should tell) .As i had grown under grandparents care the proper south-indian food was always on the table unlike the mom and aunts and no-wonder the patner whoever it is going to be will and had always filled the recipe's with artificial flavours to make their cooking easier and claiming it special and faster for you.Recent past Ganesh chaturthi is a perfect example , lucky to have good indian restaurants here and i made sure i tasted the usual ghee pongal,idli with 2 chutneys(usual bec'z i demand these at home when i am there on festival occasions) etc ..i failed to pick up the right place to have food of the day - Kolakattai .Normally it vanishes and i demand it later when i reach home but this one was hard for some reason.The same sunday i met this friend and his friend both south Indians and while having luch together i made it a point to express my "Kolakattai-loss" to them in the middle of some food-demolition acts from him.The other friend who accompanied gave me some "tips to target" , thanks to her next time will try.Next day was monday and apart from the monday morning blues it was beginning of the month and thanks to the slow server to delay my reports , i just stepped out and ended up in the temple in tank road, just like that before luncu,finished the formality prayer and when i was stepping out someone kept a small bowl in the table nearby there was some prasadam , i looked around to make sure it is for public and opened the lid ........ take a guess it was nice south-style "Kolakattai" what a feeling i should say and looked around again to snatch 1+1, first time i saw a kolattai prasadam and it was a great one to quench my craving as it was the spicy form of it which i like the most.I ate it smiling too much with a lot of joy and the grin lasted long , i mailed to two of them who listened to me previous day to express "what a feeling "i should say...might be silly still ....matters..................
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