Dosa Bandi

This was in dear old Bangalore. (A break from the Rajasthan travels).

I think I had one of my best dosas at this 'bandi' this morning.

It's a proper family run enterprise. Kiran (standing by the bandi) serves, the mother makes the dosas, the father washes the plates, and between them they have it all covered. Swaroop (busily eating away to the right) is a regular, and it was interesting to hear him say, 'the mother is the hero'. She was in charge of core operations see....and total no nonsense kinds, not even time for a smile.

Kiran on the other hand  was only too happy to talk. The moment he saw me take a picture, he was saying something about street food in America and in China. They have had the bandi there for ten years, and he's apparently like the proverbial 'barber'...knows anything about anything in the area. And he had such a ready smile, that had I not had an appointment to catch, I would have loved to have stayed and done a longer chat.

The mother has three tava's parallely going and that covers  the menu...plain dosa, onion dosa and egg dosa. And it was truly yummm.

Within the ten to fifteen minutes we were there, we must have seen atleast twenty people come eat. They are there for three hours, seven until ten each morning, and it seemed continuous brisk business.

It sure started my day great...in fact with a bandi like this around the house, a great breakfast done at twenty rupees, breakfast at home would become exception :)