The last few days passed in a bit of a haze. The bug and the medication together made me really woozy, like I was high all the time. I had curd rice from different places, and despite being a simple dish, everyone does it slightly differently and many get it wrong. The ideal curd rice is tempered, the fancy ones have slivers of carrots, the sad ones have no leaves and taste sweet. Somehow, the dumbfucks of Delhi believe that anything with curd in it is a sweet dish. The CSD Army Canteen in Gurugram gives excellent curd rice. Then Sarvana Bhavan is a safe bet, but they have stopped making curd rice recently. Then Cafe Amudham also makes good curd rice, and is located right next to Sarvana Bhavan at Janpath, though the latter has another one at Connought Place, which is close-by, walking distance. The one by Paakshala is tolerable, and so is the one from Juggernaut. In Noida, an okay place to get curd rice is the Legends of India by Savoy Suites. The ones by Dasaprakash, and the local sweet shops such as Sona Sweets and Nathu Sweets are all uniformly bad. Bheemeshwara has a good one with pomegranates, Reena Restaurant puts in the carrots, and Dakshiini Cafe puts in both pomegranate seeds and carrots. The Dosa Coffee one is just about tolerable, but the one to really avoid is Sagar Ratna. Another good place that gets it right is The Postman Kitchen in Noida.
I finished off my quota of stories today. Holi is day after, so looking forward to the holiday.
