James Ramya Rajan J

A couple of days ago, we had been to Abid’s at Spur Tank Road, #Chennai for tasting their #Ramzan iftar menu.

Loved both their Mutton #Haleem and #Nombukanji. Their Haleem was way better than Fisherman’s Fare and Pista House and very reasonably priced too. This was our first time tasting Nombukanji and really loved the lightly flavoured rice and meat porridge.

For the main course, we ordered Pathar ke Gosht and Laham Mandi. Pathar ke Gosht was soft for the most part. But the Mandi was the star of the meal. This highly flavourful Yemeni rice dish was very mild on spice. With the red sauce that was spicy and tangy, it was just perfect. The mutton though looks tough, was falling off the bone.

We ended the meal with our favourite dessert Khubani ka Meeta served along with heavy cream. Heavenly.

At home, I found myself enjoying the lingering flavours of the food in my hands. It was a wonderful meal.

#DiningOut #Food #Chennai #Ramadan #Iftar #Mutton #LahamMandi

#WallArt

Kappa Chakka Kandhari, Haddows Road, Chennai

Today’s breakfast was this set 7 course breakfast at @kckfoods.

At ₹275, where you can go on stuffing as much as you can, this is total value for money. The dishes were,

1. White Bread with Mutton Stew

2. Idiyappam with Chicken Curry

3. Ramassery Idli with Sambhar and Podi

4. Appam and Egg roast

5. Puttu and Kadala Curry

6. Vattappam and Duck Mappas

7. Kappa and Fish Curry

And we wrapped it all with a nice hot Sulemani Chai

#EatingOut #Chennai #Mutton #Chicken #Appam #Idiyappam #Puttu #Kappa

New Pattukottai Kamatchi Mess, T Nagar, Chennai 📍

This was how the epic lunch at the New Pattukottai Kamatchi Mess started.

While this might not look much, their approach of making every gravy/kozhambu on the menu available along with unlimited rice is easy to make anyone a glutton.

Loved everything that was served—Mutton Sukka, Prawn Masala, Viral Meen fry, Chicken Theregal, Crab Masala, Chicken gravies, Crab Curry, Mutton Kozhambu, Fish Curry etc. Among all of those, Brain Fry and Karuvadu Sambal were pretty epic.

Just one advice. Don’t go there if you have to work post lunch.

#Food #Chennai #ChennaiDiaries

First Himam Pasand of the season!

#SummerLove #Yellove #Mango #Chennai #ChennaiDiaries

The joy of seeing rows of neatly arranged books!

#Chennai #ChennaiDiaries #Library #Books #PublicLibrary

We have some news to share… 😇

#ChennaiDiaries

Weekend mode!

#Chennai #ChennaiDiaries

And the franchise was exercised!

#Chennai #Elections2019

Say hello to the Blue!

#NewGadget #iPhoneXR #Chennai #ChennaiDiaries

Ugadi Food ➡️ Over eating 🔜 Food Coma .

#Food #Festivals #Ugadi #Chennai #ChennaiDiaries

The mind knows the season is not there yet, but the heart cannot go past seeing them!

#Mango #SummerIsComing #Chennai #ChennaiDiaries

A basic meal of few parotta variations from Nellai Vairamaligai and Chocolate Sorbet from @amadoragourmeticecream was our dinner last night. Both were 🔥!!

#Food #NellaiVairamaligai #Chocolate #Sorbet #ChennaiDiaries

Days that begin with such perfect #egg dosais are loving in every way. Hope you all having a very lovely day as well!

#Food #Breakfast #ChennaiDiaries .

PS: Also good for #flc2019

It has been a week, that we had these beautiful and soft croissants 🥐 for breakfast. Still remains one of the best croissant I’ve had in India!

#auroville #food #Pondicherry #travel #latergram

On the way back from Pondicherry last weekend, we stopped by at Moonrakers for some of their seafood dishes. Loved their tawa squid the most, followed by their prawns and crabs.

#food #seafood #diningout #chennai #mahabalipuram

Sunrise scenes from the Pondicherry team outing last weekend.

#travel #sunrise #pondicherry

#Pizza night with the @nfnlabs team at Puducherry!

#TeamOuting #Travel #Food

Sunset at #Pondicherry.

#Travel #Seashore

And this is the latest gadget purchase from the Amazon sale going on! @UltimateEars Wonderboom. Cute little one that packs a punch.

Dinner scene today—Salna Mixing Parotta !! 🙌 And price for this 3 parotta piece is ₹45 😱

#DiningOut #Food #Chennai

With a decision to move away from shaving foams, gels and creams and go old school with #shaving soaps, I gave @thepinkwoolf a try. I am really impressed with the lather of their soap! What impressed me more was the hand written note that came along with it. What a nice thought!! That and a nice small free sample 😋

Thank you Subodh of @thepinkwoolf for the note. And here is the feedback you asked for.

PS: A few years ago I switched from disposable razors to old school shaving with single safety razors aka #wetshaving . I’m totally loving it.

Hotel Suprabha, Aminjikari, Chennai

After reading about Hotel Suprabha from @mytrystwithfood’s blog, ended up there for lunch last Saturday and again today.

This is simple food done right and made accessible to all. For ₹80 you get a mound of rice, a dry vegetable, a wet vegetable, a chutney, plain dal and ghee, sambhar, morkozhambhu, rasam and buttermilk. Everything is top notch. And yeah you get extra rice if you finish the fist mound :)

A total fan of their food. While I can travel far for good food, this being at walking distance from home is a bonus!!

Happy Pongal! இனிய பொங்கல் வாழ்த்துக்கள்!

#Chennai #ChennaiDiaries

The best session for me from The Hindu Lit for Life was this session called Masala Shakespeare by @jonathan.gil.harris! What insight and what a way to present it! Totally rad. Loved it!!

#LFL2019 #HinduLitForLife #Chennai #ChennaiDiaries