Sevai / rice noodles is a popular southern indian dish that is steamed cooked and then seasoned. Different varieties of sevai’s are prepared. Like the plain sevai, tamarind sevai, lime sevai, the yummy tasting coconut sevai.To make rice sevai from scratch will be time consuming for a person like me. So i went in for the ready to cook rice sevai available in the market. Ingredients200gm / 2 cups -
Calicut airport must be having the worst customs team in Kerala. The customs department is shameless in asking for bribe. I had this experience long time back and recently somebody told me about there experience as well.
About 3-4 years back I happened to land at Calicut airport. After collecting the baggage, I was heading to the exit door and then found a customs officer in my way asking the details of the baggage. I have explained the contents, which are nothing but my clothes and a laptop. Since I was coming back for good after a short stay in Kuwait, I did not buy any stuff.
Immediately the customs officer said, you will have to pay us some money or other wise will require to check your baggage. You will have to open all the stuff here now. I said please do an X-ray so that they will know if there is anything you suspect. Then he started threatening me saying that we can see some metal stuff in the baggage etc… and we will need to examine it by opening the baggage. Otherwise give us something in foreign exchange so that you can leave the place immediately.
Since I had to go to Kochi, I have agreed to pay him 5 KD and said this is the only foreign exchange I have as I have left Kuwait for good. He immediately grabbed the money and allowed us to go.
Though 5 KD was not a big amount, it was a big insult.
A flavorful dosa with spring onions. Rice and different dals is the base of this dosa, with a ratio of 2 :1. Dals should measure all together to one cup, where you can increase any one dal proportion a little bit. More of Channa dal or toor dal will make the dosa crisp and also adds flavor. More of moong dal will make the dosa soft. So you can increase the measure of any of the dals as to what
Recently we had a shopping at Seemati,Kochi. We do shopping in Kochi once a while when we come back for vacations. This shopping includes spending long time in these shopping centers. The first surprise was that to have the car parked in front of there was a charge of Rs. 500 ( which was reimbursed later at the billing counter)
This time we spent a lot of time in Seemati doing shopping. My parents and kids were along with us as we have planned to buy things for them. After 2-3 hours of shopping, I have checked the availability of the toilets. One of the sales person told me that it is available in the 4th floor. I have been to the 4th floor and still could not find the location and again asked another sales person. He said it is in the corner. Finally I found the toilet at the corner.
To mention my experience about the toilet, I found it a small toilet with lot of toilet cleaning materials around it. The typical toilet stink was around, which was never expected from a reputed shopping center in Kochi. I then casually checked if there is an area for children to play or feeding room for mothers and the answer was negative.
Though I have heard that it is not a common practice in Kochi to have special rooms or clean toilets in shopping centers and shops, it was surprising to learn that there is no facilities for women in Seemati which is run by a woman.
On an average families spent 3-4 hours in the shopping centers like Seemati and Jayalakshmi when they go for shopping. If it is for wedding or any similaroccassions, the shopping time goes beyond 5 hours. It is a cruelty to the customers not to provide decent facilities. I think, most of the shopping centers in Kochi are having the same problems.
Hope to get this corrected by the Seematti Management soon so that the customers and especially I would like to go back to Seematti for shopping
Floating supermarket in a houseboat from the State owned Thriveni supermarket chain is recently identified as a useful initiative.
Thriveni might have learned this idea from the small players who sell the grocery and basic consumer goods in small boats. This initiative will cut down the opportunities of these small businessmen but will give added advantage to the consumers as they get things at a reduced price.
Hope we will have such fine and user friendly investments in the future.
Kerala is considering the name change to Keralam. I do not think anyone will dispute the fact that it was never Kerala for any Malayalee other than the so called Mallus.
At least we support you in this minister and good that we are listening something good from you
Karkidaka Kanji is a type of food with rice as a key ingredient. This is normally taken during the malayalam month of karkidakam. It is considered as the healthy food for the month of karkidakam as the human body is expected to have weak resistance during this month. Karkidaka Kanji is one among the best ways to overcome this weakness.
The recipe for Karakidaka Kanji is mentioned below as obtained from various sources including my grant parents.
There are many ways to make the karkidaka kanji. One popular method is as follows:
Going out to have Chinese is something we do often, unless it can be created at home. Fried prawns cooked in hot garlic sauce is delightful in taste and will make a great side dish with Chinese fried rice, noodles or just plain steamed jasmine rice. Ingredients45 to 50 counts – Medium size prawnsMarinate prawns with1 tbsp – Cornflour1 – Egg, beaten wellSalt to tasteFor the Sauce20 to 25 flakes –
Serve hot with naan or parathas or even rice.
Curd rice is a south Indian delicacy. It is prepared by mixing the cooked rice with curd and seasoning it with chillies, curry leaves, ginger, mustard seeds and different Dals…