One of the best memories of a worry free (coz it was on the house - house as in 'company') , quality filled & ambience draped dining experience was @ temple bay near mahabalipuram... I had an opportunity to play host to one of our clients . Unlike other bossy and rusty ones he was a happy-go-lucky guy with a lot of knowledge on cultures and places.. he had backpacked to middle east during his college days , we were never short of great conversations ..
Our day started off when our driver Krishna picked up John from his hotel and later on picked me up from my home around 0900 on a weekend.. We had one of our conversations going and we always tried to involve krishna too so that he doesnt feel that he was alone with his corolla !
First we visited 'dakshin chitra' - located on the East coast Road or the ECR road (the kaaka kaaka jeep song fame.., would love to ride a open gypsy alongside this road with my gf) , and honestly i was not so eager to visit that place. Usually these kinda places according to me were to woo foreigners and to get their oohs & aahs! along with their $$ & pounds( there is no pound symbol on my kb, need to get a 'made in UK' one i suppose) >>
But once i got in and had the chance to see the intricate handiworks of local artisans(when i say local its India , most of them were from the NW part of India) , was totally overwhelmed. They had great talent that was passed on from generations to generations - am not sure if these kinda values are on those X-Y chromosomal combinations ?? .They were drawing on an inch square of dried palm leaves and we couldnt beat them for symmetry with our engineering drawings. The other thing that i noticed was the speed and concentration they had - speed of an F1 and concentration of a snake about to hit its prey ..
J was very happy and yeah to make the artisans happy - he bought a couple of the palm leaf drawings - its still happily resting on his fridge door back home in minneapolis - a long journey for a palm leaf to make. He also bought a painting of the wealth goddess for his boss - to make her happy !! The puppet show was one another thing that amazed all of us - it was put up in a mix of english and tamil and it was so nicely edited and directed by the one man that the mixed crowd almost erupted to laughter many times during the show - and importantly simultaneously !! side kick : ' sometimes we laugh coz we have to '
After a couple of hours being intellectual and appreciating art - we wanted some food for all the thoughts we put in.. K suggested temple bay as I hadnt been to mahabalipuram for dining I also was not sure - I called a couple of places and all had the same opinion - GO FOR IT.
We parked and then moved to the restaurant area - it has a thatched roof with coconut palm leaves and the best part was it was overlooking the pool and then the ' bay of bengal' - wow i would've just stayed there sipping some beer all day long ... We got a great table too .. along the frontlines .. J was enjoying it and it was the company of the true-blu (thats ma fav color) waves that was making us intoxicated ..
I am a good listener and am inquisitive (not on the technical front) , i love to hear real life stories than reel life - it started off with my grandfather telling me about his days in the INA under Netaji : ok lemme reserve a different place for this..
We ordered a couple of beers( J wanted authentic Indian beer, as corona is from mexico kingfisher is from India, we added a couple of $$ as profit to Vijay Mallya). To go along with it direct from the tandoor we had tiger prawns - grilled and cooked to perfection it was awesome...i loved it . I love good food and drinks topped with great company - J was talking about all the fun times he had backpacking ..and hours flew by. For the touche Indian we had some roti and dal...
The waves were crashing and it was too nice to just sit there and enjoy with blank minds and wondering when wud the next wave crash ... we talked and watched ...it was around 1800 when we thought of leaving - around 3 hours of wave counting and being with nature (some alive and some dead and tasty of course) .. temple bay is one place where my lucky(??) gf and me would dine when the time comes !!!
Our day started off when our driver Krishna picked up John from his hotel and later on picked me up from my home around 0900 on a weekend.. We had one of our conversations going and we always tried to involve krishna too so that he doesnt feel that he was alone with his corolla !
First we visited 'dakshin chitra' - located on the East coast Road or the ECR road (the kaaka kaaka jeep song fame.., would love to ride a open gypsy alongside this road with my gf) , and honestly i was not so eager to visit that place. Usually these kinda places according to me were to woo foreigners and to get their oohs & aahs! along with their $$ & pounds( there is no pound symbol on my kb, need to get a 'made in UK' one i suppose) >>
But once i got in and had the chance to see the intricate handiworks of local artisans(when i say local its India , most of them were from the NW part of India) , was totally overwhelmed. They had great talent that was passed on from generations to generations - am not sure if these kinda values are on those X-Y chromosomal combinations ?? .They were drawing on an inch square of dried palm leaves and we couldnt beat them for symmetry with our engineering drawings. The other thing that i noticed was the speed and concentration they had - speed of an F1 and concentration of a snake about to hit its prey ..
J was very happy and yeah to make the artisans happy - he bought a couple of the palm leaf drawings - its still happily resting on his fridge door back home in minneapolis - a long journey for a palm leaf to make. He also bought a painting of the wealth goddess for his boss - to make her happy !! The puppet show was one another thing that amazed all of us - it was put up in a mix of english and tamil and it was so nicely edited and directed by the one man that the mixed crowd almost erupted to laughter many times during the show - and importantly simultaneously !! side kick : ' sometimes we laugh coz we have to '
After a couple of hours being intellectual and appreciating art - we wanted some food for all the thoughts we put in.. K suggested temple bay as I hadnt been to mahabalipuram for dining I also was not sure - I called a couple of places and all had the same opinion - GO FOR IT.
We parked and then moved to the restaurant area - it has a thatched roof with coconut palm leaves and the best part was it was overlooking the pool and then the ' bay of bengal' - wow i would've just stayed there sipping some beer all day long ... We got a great table too .. along the frontlines .. J was enjoying it and it was the company of the true-blu (thats ma fav color) waves that was making us intoxicated ..
I am a good listener and am inquisitive (not on the technical front) , i love to hear real life stories than reel life - it started off with my grandfather telling me about his days in the INA under Netaji : ok lemme reserve a different place for this..
We ordered a couple of beers( J wanted authentic Indian beer, as corona is from mexico kingfisher is from India, we added a couple of $$ as profit to Vijay Mallya). To go along with it direct from the tandoor we had tiger prawns - grilled and cooked to perfection it was awesome...i loved it . I love good food and drinks topped with great company - J was talking about all the fun times he had backpacking ..and hours flew by. For the touche Indian we had some roti and dal...
The waves were crashing and it was too nice to just sit there and enjoy with blank minds and wondering when wud the next wave crash ... we talked and watched ...it was around 1800 when we thought of leaving - around 3 hours of wave counting and being with nature (some alive and some dead and tasty of course) .. temple bay is one place where my lucky(??) gf and me would dine when the time comes !!!
2 comments:
Nice start bro:) brought back some chennai memories..
keep writing!
Hmm...Nice narrative..!!! I feel like driving to one of those beaches and bask under the sun :))
It would only remain a synthetic dream(Only for now) ;)
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