It was a day filled with disappointments - on the culinary front. We had gone to R City Mall for Taco Bell's Chalupa. Yep, the offering is delicious enough to warrant a visit to a mall specially for it. I am on the verge of divorcing McDonald's burgers. :-) Okay, but then I changed my mind when I was standing in front of the outlet. All around me, there were more lunch options. First, I made a beeline for Malgudi. The Chettinad looked tempting till the guy at the counter told me that the outlet was purely veg. The Thali looked yummy as well but I was in no mood to eat so much. In no mood for Lebanese, Chinese, Pizza or Chaat either. That's when I came across Sholaa. The menu looked promising enough but I wasn't sure so I took another turn of the whole court. And finally zeroed in on Sholaa to order a meal. The guy at the counter told me it will be ready within 10 minutes. It took much longer than that.
The meal consisted of a chicken gravy, rice, layered paratha, 3 chicken malai kebabs with dip, coke and a dessert. The gravy was delicious but I had my suspicions about whether the chicken pieces were cooked. Finally, I decided to discard them all and just ate the gravy with the paratha, which, by the way, was very crisp and fluffy. I am not sure why the rice was described as spicy in the menu card. There was not an ounce of spice in it. The kebabs were good but again some parts of the meat looked raw. The dessert, which I went back for, was a small scoop of ice-cream of unknown origin. Overall, a huge disappointment. I should have gone for that Malgudi Thali.
There were a couple of options as far as dessert goes. Puranmal had yummy-looking Gulabjamuns. Ice Cream Works had advertized some new offerings. We also had passed quite a number of shops selling pastries. But I chose to go to Dunkin instead, only to be greeted by the product display that had run out of most of my favorites. I now know I should have turned on my heels and headed straight for Ice Cream Works but I ordered a Blueberry donut. First bite told me it was an acquired taste and I was unlikely to acquire it ever. True to my upbringing, I finished it down to the last morsel.
But at the end of the day I knew that I should have chosen better.
The meal consisted of a chicken gravy, rice, layered paratha, 3 chicken malai kebabs with dip, coke and a dessert. The gravy was delicious but I had my suspicions about whether the chicken pieces were cooked. Finally, I decided to discard them all and just ate the gravy with the paratha, which, by the way, was very crisp and fluffy. I am not sure why the rice was described as spicy in the menu card. There was not an ounce of spice in it. The kebabs were good but again some parts of the meat looked raw. The dessert, which I went back for, was a small scoop of ice-cream of unknown origin. Overall, a huge disappointment. I should have gone for that Malgudi Thali.
There were a couple of options as far as dessert goes. Puranmal had yummy-looking Gulabjamuns. Ice Cream Works had advertized some new offerings. We also had passed quite a number of shops selling pastries. But I chose to go to Dunkin instead, only to be greeted by the product display that had run out of most of my favorites. I now know I should have turned on my heels and headed straight for Ice Cream Works but I ordered a Blueberry donut. First bite told me it was an acquired taste and I was unlikely to acquire it ever. True to my upbringing, I finished it down to the last morsel.
But at the end of the day I knew that I should have chosen better.
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