The MTR Eatery Safari

If I was on a time machine to date back around one year, ...

XX Sep 2007, 2:30 PM
I am at "MTR Lunch House" which serves authentic south Indian food. I am here at around 2:30 PM traveled exclusively to eat there with lots of hardship in finding the place. "Lunch time ayuthu" says the cashier.. meaning Lunch time over!. How can that be.. ! I am disappointed thoroughly. :(


Okay.. Back to the Present, I mean Sep 2008
It took us a year for another attempt. :) Started early, so that we do not have to hear the "ayuthu" words again. We reached here at around 12:30 this time. Yuppiee.. Token number 26. The price of the meal was Rs. 110/person. We walked upstairs heading for the "Waiting Room". There were around 30 people there... MTR has a batch processing mechanism (they serve meals in batches). Ok.. ok. here is the pic if you don't believe me.

After some 15 mins, which was around 12:45 PM, a MTR coupon checker started calling token numbers starting from number 1... 2.. and then came 26. We stepped in and a person guided us to a seating place.

The cutlery and the brunch
A big plate, a silver tumbler with grape juice, a glass of water and a spoon. The MTR servers, dressed in a neat shirt, white dhoti and a towel on their shoulder(I remember Tamil Nadu), come one by one starting from mint chutney, cabbage curry, mixed vegetable pickle, another curry(dont know what it is made of!), masala vada, payasam, another unknown sweet(very good in taste.. I liked it). First dish to start with, dosa(i guess it was ragi dosa) came over. Then came bise-belle-bath (a special karnataka cuisine) topped with cashew-nuts, onion curd raitha. [Oh my god! I am nearly full now.. there are more to come..] Papads, sambar rice, rasam rice, curd rice followed. Then fruit salad with ice-cream and then a south indian pan.
Brunch - It was more of breakfast and lunch, time and quantity matched ;)

Mission MTR accomplished.