Say Cheese

The non stop laughter

The ever present grimace on Priya's face

The split pepper and salt on the table

Cheese

Amused laughter of the waiters

Stares from nearby tables

The split water on the table

Mummy Sangee :) :)

Cheese

Surprise entry of Praveena

Vaidu's description of her msging goof up

The results rumor in the middle

Cheese

The "fun time" Vaidu & Prasu had in Dishoom

Kalabaa Kadalaa ( i got it right here atleast i hope ?! ;-)

Saran's claim of our great appetites *ahem*

And ya Cheese....

After 4 years of listenin to Priya's rants about how great Mathura is we finally paid a visit to it yesterday night ,for dinner. This dinner was special for many reasons ( i dont wanna reveal them and damage ourselves.. so.. lets not get into that ). We decided not to go the Indian way atleast this once. No Naan , Kulcha , panner butter masala and that usual routine.

This once we would be DIFFERENT !!

It started off beautifully with amazing soups ( atleast mine.. i always stick to tomato.. u can never go wrong there). The otheres errr.. experimented : french onion and malose mose ( wat WAS that vaidu ?? ) . I guess this was a sign ( i always believe in signs !! ) We should have paid heed to it and stuck to the mundane.

The starters were heavenly.. Cheese cutlet , Paneer Roll , Gobi Manchurian , Baby Corn fry . Yummmm. This is where i was thinkin " o my god.. this is turning out to be the BEST treat ever.. !! " Well.. guess i spoke wayyyy too soon !!

" Mathura's Augratins are yumm. " , " U gotta taste the augratins" , " And dont forget the Augratins" : After such constant mumblings by Priya , how could we forget them. With bated breath we waited as the waiter kept two kinds of Augratin on the table ( Spl Mix and Corn ) . We asked him to serve it to the 6 of us . And after that was done we all stared at Priya with a look that said " ok so how are we supposed to eat this , where does the bread come in ?errr.. plz guide us " And that she did . Have one bite of the "oh so great augratin" and one bite of the bread , thats the procedure apparently.

Ok ,So i am not sayin that the Augratins were bad. I liked them , but how much CHEESE ( + veggies and corn and "bread" ) can a person eat. ? ;-) ( this is why we shuld have listened to priya's advice of ordering one plate alone for all of us )

Let me turn the clock back a little. While ordering the Augratins we had also decided to order a sepearte dish for each of us. Priya did warn us telling " Ppl. eat the aug's , then if u r hungry go for more." But noo.. we were so confident of our great appetites that we went on a ordering spree. American Chopsuey , Spicy Pasta , Spaghetti Supreme ,Lasagne , and Fettucine Alfrado were the orders. ( the one with weird fett name i orderd.. hehe.. ).. Priya safely went for idly sambar.

So now the waiter came with the new orders ( we tried to cancel cos we were too full.. but it was tooo late ) . And ahem , what do we find : more CHEESE !! mine and saran's : the lasagne and the fettucine.

Atleast the other dishes had some spice or salt but but.. oh the woes of my dish.. i feel like pukin just thinking about it.. it was jus lots of cheese and onion and coriiander leaves and that thing which makes up the pasta. and it tasted like nothing. it did not taste. period. it was the heights of blandness. i tried mixing lots of sauce and having but no use. The lasagne was weird. With a really weird stuffing. Othere were ok but no space in stomach after the "augratin".

Dessert rocked with the usual mix of fruit salads ice creams and juices. it was heavenly.

All in all like Saran said " It was a great dinner , we probably had the best time ever and provided unlimited entertainment to all around us , great starters , great dessert. But lets just forget about the main course"

Common reaction at the end of day : "Indian food ROCKS"

Moral of the story :

• Sometimes ( only sometimes ) we should listen to Priya's Advic
• Saran , Plz dont experiment
• Err, me also plz dont experiment
• Laughing is good for digestion
• Does cheese make one sleepy ?

ps :

It is said that tigers actually dont eat humans by birth. But once they taste our meat , even by accident, they get enamoured by the salt in the blood. From then on nothing else will do.

Guess some of us are also like that. Give us any food but put salt pepper masala in it. Please :-)