Sunday, September 14, 2008

Idli/Idly

Conference was early today at 9:30am. Moon day tomorrow so there's no practice. Had to do pranayama after asana practice so there was no time for breakfast before 9:30. Went to Gokul Chats for paper dosa but for some reasons dosas were not available today. Had idly instead. It actually tasted like the Philippine puto only that here they serve it with coconut chutney and sambar. In the Philippines, they either top it with cheese, flavor it with pandan, or serve it with that ever famous Philippine stew. For those who've been vegetarian for a long, long time, you wouldn't want to know what it's made of.

Found a photo of Indian breakfast items. Haven't tried everything yet though but should soon.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Philippine stew--if you can make a vegetarian version of dinuguan, hats off na talaga ako sa yo! =P Food looks SOOOO yummy!

Anonymous said...

"that ever famous Philippine stew". "Dinuguan"! You don't even wanna say it. You're like squirming...Euwww! "Dinuguan", translated for the world-wide web: Bloodied. Full of blood. Coagulated blood. Squeezed blood clot. A Filipino delicacy euphemistically called, by locals for tourists, chocolate pork. Puto with dinuguan, shocking.

Unknown said...

@Chona... If I can taste it again, maybe I can... but was never really liked even before I became vegetarian.

@Grass... hahaha... thanks for the description. Just wanted people to find it out by themselves if they're really curious about it.

Avril said...

Hi Jon, Avril here. I blog over at http://tryingtowake.blogspot.com/

I was wondering, why did you decide to become vegetarian? And why is vegetarianism promoted for yoga?

Thanks!

Unknown said...

Hi Avril,

Added you to my list of yogi friends.

I started being a vegetarian almost at the same time that I started doing yoga. I was already watching my meat intake even before that though.

2 reasons: health and ahimsa.

Avril said...

I just did the same. :)

Thanks!

Southeast Face said...

Hey, ghassposs (grass eater)! hehe. Am so glad to know I'm not the only Filipino enjoying lots of Indian food. I soo like a lot of South Indian food, especially Dosa. Idly is like 'puto' without the sweetness...hehehe. It's so good with rasam or sambar...

Unknown said...

Meds,

I had a huge paper dosa this morning! I'll upload the photo soon.

I'm addicted to paper dosa, hahaha.