Food & Shopping

It didn't look like any significant shopping would actually happen today.

In the morning I went to one of the book stores where I have been buying picture post cards since the last 20+ years only to find out that they had one shelf of cards from Mumbai and 12 shelfs full of cards from other places in India. To make it worse not only were the pictures on the Mumbai cards taken in the 70s, they were also lousy :(

The day today was so incredibly humid and hot that it didn't make any sense to leave the house after lunch. When my nephew arrived to pick m up around 6pm his shirt was virtually soaked in sweat although he had only taken a 5-minute walk from his place to mine.

However, things got better: after having been to a new tailor (let's see whether he's worth his money) we went to an unspectacular South Indian restaurant for snacks and I realised that I haven't had South Indian food ever since I left Bangalore in 2007. We ordered Onion Uttapam as well as Idlis with Sambar both - to our surprise as we were not expecting anything great - were absolutely delicious.

Onion Uttapam

Idli with Sambar

Stuffed with these delicacies we decided to stop by a small clothing shop which sells branded clothes (basically all major brands) from export surplus at very attractive rates. We ended up spending almost an hour in there each of us eventually ending up buying a couple of shirts :)

Now tired, but happy
Memonji