No Plate Big Enough
February 20, 2012 • Food & Cooking, Spiritual Adventures
After class we took an evening walk along the promenade in Pondicherry which always seems to be bustling with people. Then we headed into town walking past a lot of the colonial type structures that are very much part of this section of Pondicherry. We ended up in Surguru restaurant and had chana batura and some paper dosas (a kind of fermented crepe) which were massive and did not even fit on the plates they gave us. But somehow they had no trouble fitting in our bellies. Yummy! The group is having no problem adjusting to this spiritual and culinary adventure in South India…
The group waits patiently for the dishes to arrive...
The chana baturas are big and filled with hot air.....
Olga and Amanda decide to share one channa batura....but first, let's get all that hot air out.
The giant paper dosas don't fit on the plates.....they were delicious!!!
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