Dosa Delirium: CTR's Crispy Tale

 Some body on the Internet , named Philomena Neerudu has rather wittily said “Optimism is Christ crumbling the cross into a dosa and put into a round shape even when your sins burn!”

( written sometime in Nov 22, when I was back home for a few days while being posted abroad ) 

Not so sure about the resurrection but my spirit certainly was , at my second stop on my Food Pilgrimage in Bangalore ! I Visited CTR ( Shree sagar for the later day Banglorean ) after a little more than a year . And calmed down the Glutton inside me who was egging me on ever since I landed here . 

Dosas Crisply roasted with an Angioplasty inducing dollop of butter filled with soft, smooth and light spiced potato pallya seasoned with fresh coriander leaves , smeared with red spicy chilly paste , served with finely ground mint chutney …… aaaah ! 

Agar firdaus bar ru-ye zamin ast 

Hamin ast-o hamin ast-o hamin ast 

(If there is heaven on earth it is this, it is this, it is this! )  found at the Diwan I khad at the Redford in Agra ! 

Believe me , it is as difficult to get into CTR as it is , to heaven . There is indeed a long queue through not serpentine … more pythonic … which certainly whets your appetite ( intezaar ka mazaa mulakat mein kahaan - the joy of waiting for the beloved is more than the actual meeting ) and instead of St. Peter at the pearly gates , here there is a guy clad in a pair of jeans and black windcheater who acts as the gatekeeper . As soon as a chair is empty he tiredly gesticulates pouting and pointing that location and off you go !!!  Wonder if he gets to eat the dosa here three times a day ! 

The glutton inside me went beserk! What was a mental resolution of eating just a dosa , broke down completely, yielding to a Benne roast Masala Dosa ( a butter roasted one ) , a plain masala dosa ( roasted with refined oil perhaps ) a Medhu vada and a frothy glass of hot steaming filter coffee ….

The joy on my face I am sure was visible to all those around me ( complete strangers whom i do not know ) . This orgasmic indulgence was definitely something !!

Post this breakfast all I have to say is this 

 

Doseya sightu 

Hotte full Tightu 

yeenidu gati

O Shilpa Pati !

( the sight of the dosa has made you belly full, what a situation O husband of Shilpa !)