Monday, July 12, 2010

Farewell

It is time for most of our friends to depart from current work to seek a new beginning. We always plan for a movie or outing or lunch @ a hotel. This time we people who are departing have taken the chance to treat others. The party should be well planned not in any restaurant near our office we usually go but some good place in city. All our friends decided to meet @ BarbequeNation, 100ft road, Indira Nagar. A table has been booked in advance for 14 and we started grabbing by 1.30pm. This restaurant is famous for grilled food and it included grills of vegetables, pineapple, mushroom, chicken, fish, prawn. Plates were in green and black to differentiate veg and non veg. They were 90% cooked and remaining 10% was cooked in the oven in our table. Different sauses including mayonnaise, ginger-garlic, garlic chilli, mango, vinegar were served. While grilling, those sauses could be applied using a brush on the items.

Next came the other starters: Falafal topped with mayonnaise- tasted like the south famous masal vada, kajun fried potato- single potato was beaten up, baked and looked like a coin, paneer tikka, chicken, crab, mutton. It was unlimited and we dont remember how many rounds of starters we had. Until the flag was put down starters were served. The taste was entirely different from what I have had in other places.
Finally decided to put the flag down to start with other stuffs. Thai noodle soup was served for veg and lemon grass for non veg. Salads included carrot, tomato, cucumber, onion the usuals and others item like fatoosh salad, jalpino, pineapple-mango, american sweet corn, cabbage in white sauce. My tummy was full with this but wanted to do justice for entire package. Hence had Thai noodles, green thai gravy, mushroom- babycorn gravy, chettinad brinjal curry, channa masala, veg pulao, curd rice. Mutton briyani was served in authentic terracota bowl with chicken side dish. We also had aerated drinks, fruit punch while having main course.
It is time for the most awaited dessert. Still I have space in tummy. Gulab jamoons, phirni, chocolate pastry, mango mousse, vanilla icecream topped with choco sauce, nuts... mouth watering. I wished I had one more tummy. The restaurant's ambience and service were uncomparable. Hope everybody liked the food and we all were happy about that. Later in the evening few of us went for shopping to buy sarees for friend's sister. I have worn and shown the saree as display:-). Having purchased happily the day ended with a coffee and then back to home. Whenever a good thing happens it is mandatory for a bad thing to occur or wat? Even though we all chatted happily, unknowingly groups were formed and not all could speak with each other. This made few to feel bad and this caused a guilty feeling in me. Since I was taking fotos and enjoying food, dint spend time to speak with my friends' spouse who were new in our gang. Anyway another chance to have one more get together, chat, eat, shout in happiness. All these gatherings make me happy, forget the entire world and realise that Life is short, Enjoy every moment!!!