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Food Bangalore
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My taste buds have been very active these days.
I got down from a bus this evening and walked to my house a kilometer away, giving some business to all small eateries on the way. My first pit-stop was to buy a Rs.2 pack of roasted groundnuts from a cart-vendor who usually stood next to a bus-stop. Before I was done with the pack, I arrived at the juice-center I regularly haunt, and asked for a pineapple juice. Next, I paused briefly at a bakery, thinking of buying a Butterscotch Cornetto, but decided to skip it at the last moment. I then visited a nearby tender coconut vendor instead. After coconut, I was keen to stop for a helping of deep fried small vade, but they were not ready yet. My next temptation was sugar canes(not the juice, but cane itself), which have been in my mind for a long time, but gave it a miss too, thinking of the struggle involved in eating it. But I would have loved to be eating all of them - the vade, sugarcane and cornetto.
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I find it hard to give a miss to anything edible that I see these days. Groundnuts have been an old temptation, but pineapple juice is a new craving that started after I had a glass of it at Koshy's a few months ago. But my hunger is not limited to street food - I have been restaurant hopping a lot lately.
I went big on eating out only recently, starting by devouring Raviolis at Fiorano a few months ago. More Italian food happened with Little Italy's excellent pasta preparations. And then Barbecue Nation's grills were appetizing. There was simpler food on the menu too - Shanti Sagar's oota, rich with veggies and neer dosa from Emgees have never failed me.
Ice Creams are another temptation I can't keep off. The ice cream binge started six months ago in Delhi when I ate Butterscotch Pralines at CP's Saravana Bhavan twice a day for three continuous days. After that, it was fig and honey in Corner House which had me addicted. Discovering Gelatissimo is the highlight of my ice cream raids: their Irish Coffee and Sizzling Brownie Sundae are not easy to resist. But Cream and Fudge failed to make a mark, though there were some expectations before I went there.
No matter what I eat, the good old masala dosa and uddina vade will always remain the favourites. I always end up yearning for these after a few days of exotica, and go for them like I had never seen them before. It has already been a while since I have had a masala dosa. The unusually expensive new menu at South Indies and the waiter's question - "what gravy would you like to order with dosa" - put me off from ordering one recently. After a go at a large variety of sizzlers at 5 Elements yesterday, I am now looking forward to a good dosa at one of the good old places.
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Pushkar to Jaisalmer
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Travelling in Rajasthan in February 2008
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Arun Bhat is a freelance travel writer and photographer. While he is not writing for India Travel Blog, you can see him exploring the corners of India, be it trekking in the high mountains, looking out for colorful birds in the forest, immersed in the country s ancient architecture, relaxing in a beach or searching for less known locations. Some day he hopes to document the beauty of India in words and pictures, end to end.
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