A foodie's weekend experience:)
Good
Food for Good Mood
“An angry man is a
hungry man”. This is one proverb which I strongly agree with. It is a Sunday
and you wake up unplanned about your day. Out of the blue your short term
memory regains information that you are supposed to go out for lunch with your
friend to your favorite restaurant. Exciting right? After all, good food is the
best way to keep up that good mood.
My friend and me decide
to leave hostel by sharp 12pm. Ok, I am a person obsessed with punctuality and
I assume my friend too is. Not like the obsession is hereditary but I think
it’s more because of the “hostel milieu” since I was a kid. Have you ever been
a victim of the unwanted alteration from that cool and comforting temperature
in your room to the annoyingly hot sun outside? That’s beside the fact that I
don’t really get along too well with the Sun. So, we were in a hurry to reach
the restaurant as during the weekend it could be compared to a movie theatre on
Friday.
It was hot and the
crows were flying like they owned the sky. When one crow thought it found a
good place to excrete its feces. And thankfully I was not the honored person.
Given a rifle, at that moment, my friend would have assuredly defeated Abhinav
Bindra for sure. The fortunate crow was spared the glory though. But my ear
drums were not lucky enough to be spared by the tornado of slangs that stormed
out of her mouth at the moment. Being a cleanliness aficionado she felt the instantaneous
need of getting rid of the white colored liquid streak on her hair.
And guess what? We landed
up in Forum Mall in the next few minutes and I was wondering what I should
comment on watching my friend washing her hair with shampoo in the wash-basin!
That was fine compared to her complimentary idea of drying her hair with the
help of the hand dryer at the washroom, I was speechless!
“No good thing comes
easy”. This is another proverb I agree with. So, after the crow incident we
finally reached Bhojohori Manna, my
favorite Bengali restaurant in Bangalore. We need to thank God that we could
grab seats for ourselves before we visualized the restaurant transforming into
a dominated Bengali zone.
The ambience just made
us feel elated and the food menu left us with abundant memories connected to
our home. It was time to say sorry to Chicken, Mutton and Egg because our
stomach and mind had totally turned into a true Bengali who craved for Fish and
rice. So we began with munching on the Prawn
cutlets and then the main course included Steamed
rice, Cholar Dal, Bhetki Macher Jhol(fish), Jhinge Alu Posto( shrimps and potato
curry) and sweet chutney. Well, when you are a Bengali you will inherit the habit to praise your meal only if it
ends on a “sweet note”. So for once we forgot about the calorie content and my
friend ordered for one of the most demanded sweets i.e Rosogolla (gurer/jaggery) and I ordered for my
favorite ice-cream Nolen Gurer ice-cream. Oh! I forgot to mention about the Aam Panna which reminded me of my mother
who makes it every summer and that’s the ranked as the best refreshing drink on
my diet chart.
If you ever decide on
going to a Bengali restaurant do not miss out on the Nolen Gurer ice-cream and
I need not mention Rosogolla because that’s spontaneous when you enter any
Bengali place. Describing the ice-cream would bring water to your mouth so I
suggest you rush to a Bengali restaurant if you really want it now!
After the much needed
feast we walked 5kms and this time we did not fuss about anything because we
were in our best mood. And you know what that’s why I have named this article “Good Food for Good Mood”.©songbriti
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