October 14, 2014 -- Sundarams for Dinner on Market Day

This story is about a little, unassuming South Indian restaurant in our market.

Harpreet mentioned one day that Sundarams, near us, had the BEST south Indian food, so after dinner one night, we walked over to look at their menu.

They offer many different kinds of Uthappams, Dosas, and South Indian Thali – all of which looked so good on the menu that we were wishing we hadn’t yet eaten.

As luck would have it, Sunday we went to the market with Milo – who, expressed with worry, that she was going to be late home for preparing our dinner.  So we just said, forget dinner – we will go out!  (To Sundarams, heh, heh, heh).  And much later, we DID.  Winner of Best South Indian Food Award 4 yr. straight.

Everything looked so good that we decided to get two different things and share. Rob chose the Paneer Tomato Uthappam and then I told the waiter that I would have the Tomato Coconut Uthappam, and we were going to share.  All the while, the waiter is head bobbling, and saying YES, YES to everything we said – and then off he went to place the order. 

After some time, he arrived with two plates, one of which had the Coconut Uthappam on it – and he carefully cut it in half and flipped one half onto the other plate – placed a sauce on each plate and retreated.

It wasn’t HUGE but it WAS delicious, so we savoured it, but eventually it was gone with no sign of the second Uthappam.  Rob thought perhaps the Waiter didn’t realize that we wanted ONE EACH, so we got him back to ask whether he realized that we had also wanted a Tomato Paneer Uthappam, and he head-bobbled, said, YES, YES and off he went again.

Next time back the waiter had two plates, one of which had Tomato Paneer Uthappam and the other – you guessed it – another WHOLE Coconut Tomato one.

The problem often here is that you THINK you are being understood, because people always nod YES and NEVER say NO or appear NOT to understand.  What a SKETCH!  Needless to say, we ate them because they weren’t HUGE and they WERE delicious.  Milo got my leftovers for her dinner as it was not quite 9 pm.  (when she eats).

Hansi