South Thindies - A South Indian Experience

Guess your wondering what the heck im talkin about right!!?? Its a bit of a story this...

So I'm up at 3 AM Sunday morning getting ready to catch my crack of dawn flight to Bangalore. I reach there around 9:20 walk into the waiting area to catch up with mom n dad who've flown in around the same time.We get into one of these new shuttles (AC Bus) that takes us into the city ( trust me way better way to travel than those crammed cabs). So we get to where we're headed (post a long  though comfortable hour n half ride) thanks to the niceness of our bus driver who takes a short detour to drop us almost at the door!

South Thindis, past South End Circle Jayanagar Bangalore 

So we get there tired and hungry and find that we don't have anything to eat in the reception hall cause it was supposed to be a lunch affair no breakfast included. Well there we are thinking hey I was counting on some awesomelisious southindian breakfast and I dont even get capi (coffee)! But hope was not lost after all, here jumps in my kid cousin(not so much of a kid nemore) who offers to take us over to an awesome place to have breakfast. So we head out skeptical as we drive about a km to a crowded looking shopfront we get off the car wondering "what the heck is this place". And thus thinking we walk into a cacophonous atmosphere of spoons clanking on plates, big pots of sambar being stirred, people yapping away in the morning rush and the crowd the unbelivable crowd of people waiting for the cupons, waiting for the food, standing in front of shelf like tables  around walls and in the middle like a sort of island for all us lost and hunrgy souls. So we go in and order the must haves as far as any South Indian restaurant goes Idli wada sambar. I had to wait a couple of mins to get the cupon( Rs. 27 a plate) for this and finally get to the counter where i could be served deliverance from the hunger pangs.

Boy did they deliver! It was some of the tastiest nicest Idly Wada sambar I have every had. The fact that I found it in that crowded place was no surprise i mean the food there is so good it has to be crowded! So we gobble down the food like a bunch of refugees from Somalia and promptly head to the counter where there's a guy with an array of cutting (small tea) glasses in front of him, so this guy has this thing(making coffee) down to a precise art. He stacks up the glasses in rows and columns and then procceds to pour the dark magic portion we mortals love adore and live on "Coffee Decoction", then he takes a huge mug of milk and pours them the same way Bartenders tend to pour Tequila into a line of shot glasses! So I get 3 of these for me and my parents and we sip on some seriously awesome coffee. Refreshed and happy we head back to a long day of catching up with relatives we haven't seen in decades and hob nobbing with people who have come from different parts of India and the world to celebrate the communion of my cousin and his beautiful bride and to bless them a happy married life.