Missing The Food In India..

Avrekalu season is best, I miss avrekalu season every year, my mom prepares tasty avrekalu uppittu ( upma), hichkavrekalu saaru. I wish I could have gone during the season this time.

 

Recently made hitKidbele Saru.
Have you tried frozen section at Indian stores? Although the taste is not as great as the ones we get at Blore but atleast to curb the cravings you can try.

 

Yes. We have been having it this month
We got frozen ones from Costco.
Comes out crispy in air fryer

 

The title was exactly what i felt when i was in Singapore 2 yrs back. In singapore i never ever liked the quality of fruits n vegetables they were all always frozen while in india i get all fresh n local varieties. They taste heavenly i must say.
I was so upset after 4 months that i can not get those chats on road. I literally felt to runaway to india for this. For a big foodie like me it was a big torcher. Now back here i still control the cravings even if it is easily available.
Recent update got a party from best friend in restaurants all items were like to die for so i thank god for keeping me at my home city. Given a choice now i will never leave my city for this. As this is what money cant buy

 

thanks.
2. tunuku reminds my late mom.
3. Avial for Touch - I wish I had mentioned that but in my home avial for adai is rare.
But in hotels like saravana Bhawan (t nagar) vasanth Bhawan ( gn cherry street) they provide that combi and they are good for pessarette too.
Hotel maya at adayar proximity to anantha padhbha nabha swami temple is excellent for wide variety of south and north indian dishes and their buffet food with twenty and odd items is a steal.
4. In New Delhi at Parliament Street lane near Canara bank was a rendezvous for spouse and I during office lunch time to have varieties of Garama garam halwa of carrot, sappota alias chikku with nuts generously sprinkled decoratively during winter august to jan in 1976-77. Their jilebi is delectably joy to eat tepid hot. All served in dried up palm leaf.
A full description of this halwa is available in post
3s-spouse, Shawl & Sister-in-law

5. You are our chief guest. Here you take with all members of your family bestowed with enormous taste buds:

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Thanks and regards.

God besides nectar and ambrosia is felt in warm halwas of Thirunelveli & Punjab

 

@anika987 only you can think of such easy flowing topics in the same vein as some very serious thread topics and then start the thread effortlessly like everyone said above .
i am a foodie but i never craved anything as such ever but once during my pregnancy. i so badly wanted to eat moong dal ki kachori , aloo kachori , raj kachori basket. gangaur sweets and chat shops were my favorite for this one . i could never find that tasty kachori here ever . then sitafal , sugarcane juice , palm fruit , jack fruit ,pootharekulu , mamidi tandra i miss those here a lot (last 4 i used to wait till summers to go visit my grandparents to eat it ) ...i think the most important indian variety i miss is goli soda in those dark green glass bottle with lemon , orange , coca cola flavors . nothing like it , i used to drink so many goli sodas everyday while i stay there .

 

Anika, loved the thread and the entries.. thank you for opening this! Who doesn't love talking about food? When compared to others, I'm a bit lucky as I have few South Indian restaurants near by my home. Though the taste never matches the dishes we eat anywhere in Tamilnadu, we can at least quench the cravings every now and then. Next to the taste, I have one big problem with the restaurants here. In Tamilnadu, when we order idly or dosa , they leave the bucket of sambar/chutneys on our table for us to serve ourselves! In a non veg restaurant I went recently, they serve 2 big bowls of chicken and mutton Salma for the table first, that's not billed. I'm used to having dosas soaked in sambar, or parotta soaked in Salna. Here in UK, they serve a 2 feet long paper roast in a plate that has 3 small partitions for 2tbsp sambar and half TSP each green, red and white chutneys! Seriously! So they don't expect you to dip the dosa in sambar, but just show it over the sambar , front and back , catch the aroma and eat it. When asked for "extra sambar", the waiter does brings it, but not after observing the plate, in a world's tiniest kinnam which again won't hold more than 2tbsp of sambar!
In Tamilnadu,parottas never come without salna, right? You only ask "2 parottas", and they give you with salna. But here you have to order separately, that's not the problem, but the dish it comes with is a problem. Its designed in such a deceiving way. The vessel looks like a bowl, but only when you dig in with the spoon you realise it's just a slightly deeper plate! You bend down your head to analyse the bowl, it is deeper at least 4 inches high on the outside, but the inner part is Max of 1 or 1.5 inches deeper! How sad!
I shouldn't even start on Meduvada. It's called "medu"vada for a reason!
My comfort foods when I go to Coimbatore are the Masala puris, Roadside Kalaan, onion samosas, And of course paper roast soaked in Tiffin sambar or parottas soaked in salna - not too soaked to lose its crunchiness, but perfectly soaked so the pleasure of chewing increases when the sweetness of the parotta and the hot salna talks to each other.. Aww, heaven! And the Meduvada, so delicate that you carefully hold it for even a mild pressure from your fingers would crumble it.
And yes the filter coffee! They do make it with milk, but the smell of the milk doesn't overpower the aroma of the coffee beans. That's one time I don't feel guilty in welcoming extra servings of white sugar! The tiny tumbler the coffee comes with is not a problem here. As Santhanam says, "coffee epdi irukkanum theriyuma? Kudichuttu vechaa maari irukkanum!" - as long as it's strong and aromatic, the quantity doesn't matter.
All this discussion reminds me of the song "indha porappudhaan Nalla rusichu saappida kidachadhu" from Un samayalarayil movie! The song mostly covers everything we talked here...
Thanks again for starting this thread Anika... Reminds there is so much goodness in the world, and good food is among the important ones.