We didn’t expect to find any eateries suitable for vegetarians in this so-local little town , and were wondering what to do for food, when incredibly right outside the bus station we found this little joint called Saffron which said it served ‘Pure Vegetarian’ food. Wow. Would it be Indian, wouldn’t it be Indian? Would it, wouldn’t it, would it, wouldn’t it?
We debated hungrily as we crossed the road and opened its door – only to be greeted by two dark Tamil faces at the cash counter.
We grinned in relief, and might even have hugged them, had it not been for a few remaining shreds of self restraint.
They served a homely thali of rice, sambhar, rasam, kootu, poriyal, pachadi, moru, pickles, payasam and appalam. Not to forget a big ripe banana. Out there in the heartland of Arabia, to have a Madras thali!
Sudhakar of course plunged into it with his usual businesslike vigour, while I, ever the more adventurous one, ordered a veg biryani, which came with a subji, a raita, a cup of semiya payasam and a banana. Very generous, I must say. You order a veg biryani at any Indian restaurant in India and see what you get with it. A piddly raita, for the most part. No more.
Everyone out there in the restaurant was Indian and let me needlessly add, mostly Malayalis.
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