Veg Park and Barista Coffee

Netta and I are supposed to Join Tesa and the gals at Vivian's for a Chinese lunch but I overslept and when we arrived at the Sashira Café (that's the official name of Vivian's place, # 383, just across the yoga shala) the food was gone! Tesa said it was Taiwanese vegetarian… light and a nice change from the usual Indian meals that we've been having.

I needed some money changed so we waited for Shiva and after hearing about this Veg Park Restaurant which serves Indian and Chinese food, Netta and I decided to try their noodles. It was just a couple of steps away from Barista Coffee so it wasn't really very difficult to find.

Netta ordered the Singaporean Noodles while I asked for the spicy Szechuan. The waiter had to warn me that it was spicy but I said I can take it. It was good and just a little bit too spicy for me so I ordered plain rice and ate it like a true blooded Filipino (I think it's a Pinoy thing, eating pancit/noodles with rice… I can even remember those days when I'd eat instant noodles with rice… basta Pinoy… anything with rice… spaghetti with rice anyone?). We're definitely going back there to try the kofta. They also have set meals… North Indian meal… North Indian Special meal… South Indian meal…. South Indian special meal… I wonder what were the differences? I'll surely let you know once I've tried them.

After that carbohydrate-filled lunch, we decided to have more carbs and ordered dessert. We shared the Black Cupid sundae. It was ok… it's chocolate ice cream so I don't really think you'll ever go wrong with that. Topped with nuts, bits of interesting sweets, caramel and chocolate syrup, and beet syrup (?) which tasted like cough syrup, I couldn't ask for more.

We spoiled ourselves even more when we decided to have coffee at Barista.

I had cafe latte and was surprised to receive little packets of demerara sugar when I asked for a brown one.

I'm definitely a spoiled lazy Ashtangi doing nothing in Mysore but do pranayama and asanas in the morning then basically do nothing the entire day except sleep and eat. At least my flatmate is taking pranayama lessons elsewhere. I'd probably do some Sanskrit and chanting lessons starting next week so I can have something worthwhile in the afternoon. I cooked for Tesa and friends for 3 days in a row though so I guess I'm not really that lazy… :-p.