A TRIP TO KAKINADA

I have always liked train journeys as i have mentioned in one of my previous posts.
The recent experience of train journey to kakinada, on an official vist was equally enjoyable.
I have seen in my own life and in other's lives too that we develop a taste for few cities, few food items , few people and so on and so forth. The same holds good for our distastes too. If any one tries to start analysing the reason for the same he/she will become a nut.In other words such likes and dislikes , on majority of times happen instantaneously.There is no reasoning. Or atleast it will appear so.

This prologue is needed to drive home the point that i like KAKINADA for no particular reason. It was sort of instantaneous love for the city.Then i started attributing reasons for the same .Some of them are as under:
1)It was a city where my father worked in Railways, before i was born!
2)It was a city often quoted by my elder siblings as they have lived in that city for reasonable number of years.
3)During my first visit to that city (last year) and also during my second visit now (this year) it rained heavily and made the climate loveable (and you remember my love towrds rais too>>)At times i used to think that my previous birth was in ASSAM(Sirapunjee) or my next birth is going to be there!!!
4)I had been to a hotel by name "subbiah hotel" cortesy, my office.

Now hold your breath. THIS HOTEL IS TALK OF THE TOWN AND IS STATED TO BE RUN generation after generation.Like our Muniyandi Vilas, Thirunelveli Iruttu Alwa Kadai, Thalappa kattu Briyani, madurai Murugan IDDLY kadai,. etc, Hotel Subbiah has carved out a name for its hospitality.

As it normally is the scene witnessed in such popular places, the hotel itself is not visible at all from outside. It hardly has 3/4 rooms each of which can accomodate hardly 10 or 12 people.And you have to wait for hours during peak times to have the food. And it is the place where you can have Lunch as well as Dinner. Hotels serving food in the night are shrinking day by day and even in TAMIL NADU, you do not get meals for Dinner and whether you like it or not you have to go for tiffin items only.(That is one more reason for conflict between my wife and me as i always crave for meals and she always crave for tiffin--Opposite poles attract each other--hahaha).

Coming back to Subbiah Hotel, the first serve consisited of five different sweets (made of milk, made of jaggery, made of sugar , made of fruits ), the second serve followed with different varieties of rice(Puliodharai, Puthina rice, Coconut rice) the third serve consisted of plain rice and five different chutneys (Coconut, Gongura, Chillies, Onion and Kariveppilai) , the next serve consisted of SAMABAR, Vattal kulambu, Kara kulambu, Morekulambu, Next followed different Podis(Paruppu podi, Thengai podi, Karuveppilai podi) , next came pickles (Avakkai, Lemon pickle, Mixed pickles ) along with unlimited quantity of pure ghee,and then Rasam (again 3 types) and Rock like curd / butter milk (and the butter milk served there is equivalent ot cursserved in our house holds).Appada...i get exhausted listing the items itself.And they kept offering more and more and yes , i have forgotten to add to the list, the type of vegetables, chips and paapads served.the beauty is that if you say that you do not like a particular vegetable , an alternate to the same and the one you like is immediately served .think of consuming all these items. You should starve for a week to do justice to this food and as expected i went on a fasting spree after consuming this food one afternoon.And the taste is simply superb, may be their hospitality has added to that taste further.

Thus the point number 4