For weeks now I have been in search of a gastronomic awakening, an epicurean epiphany, a taste-bud bungee jump. I have eaten out and indulged in multifarious culinary delights but something has always been amiss. Last night I was at Pandara road gorging on the uber rich Butter Chicken, while a week before we were at Gunpowder, an entire eleven of us, and the food, as usual, was mouthwateringly good. The vast Big Chill menu has been explored and tested enough times over the last week, right from the soups and salads to the grills and the bakes. Cha Shi, Mamagoto, Khan Chacha --- my week-long list has been pretty endless. [I do eat ghar ka khaana too, the complete affair of dal-roti-subzi, just in case you think I eat out ritually!]
Yet, I sit here today, typing away dismally, for my food has kept me content but not satisfied. Many people do not tend to know the difference and often mistake contentedness for satisfaction. I, on the other hand, know, and know to an extent that despite my conscious search for a fantabulous foodie experience, satisfaction has eluded me. But what is it that my senses want? What cuisine or food item shall provide me that? Is it going to be a spicy Thai affair or maybe the mellow flavors of a Gujarati thaali? Will a dessert shake my senses awake or will it be some salad? I wish I knew, for the only thing I know is my food is getting predictable as is Delhi’s gastronomic scene. I am yearning for anything that’s going to break this lull in my life with a kaboom! and open up to me a Universe of possible flavors.
Where are you, Mister Dish-amiss? Where are those eye-popping flavors? Where is the head-rush, that sense of adventure, that too-good-to-be-true type food? I want to gorge on that dish and exclaim with naïve delight “Oh this is just so goo-o-oooooood!!” You know what I mean? I want NEW! I want a culinary skydive, food that gets the adrenaline rushing! This routine food and typical eating out is getting to me! Oh Dilli, can you provide me ANYTHING on those lines?
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Note to my dear readers: Any and all suggestions are welcome!!
