[silk] Football fever

2006-06-13 Thread Jeremiah S. Joseph
Fever pitch Being an England fan can be heart-rending Marc Abrahams Tuesday May 30, 2006 The Guardian "This is the first reported case of an urticarial rash apparently caused by the frustration of watching England play football." With these words, written in 1987, a London GP trainee named P

Re: [silk] Mmmmm, flame-broiled...

2006-06-13 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: [ on 10:00 PM 6/13/2006 ] Would that be on the Bangalore-Chennai road? Vested interest in asking...! quite probably yes I also remember a fairly fancy Korean restaurant right outside the Hyundai factory, right at the entrance of the city before you reach Sripe

Re: [silk] Mmmmm, flame-broiled...

2006-06-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Deepa Mohan wrote: Would that be on the Bangalore-Chennai road? Vested interest in asking...! quite probably yes

Re: [silk] Mmmmm, flame-broiled...

2006-06-13 Thread Deepa Mohan
wo On 6/13/06, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Udhay Shankar N [13/06/06 19:08 +0530]:>>yup - I've got a korean neighbor who runs a restaurant (kyungbokgong) .. a good one too. pity he moved it way out of the city (and closer to LG andSamsung's factories on the outskirts).     Wou

Re: [silk] Mmmmm, flame-broiled...

2006-06-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Udhay Shankar N [13/06/06 19:08 +0530]: Interestingly, Madras has probably the most authentic Korean restaurants in the country - fueled by a large expat Korean population. yup - I've got a korean neighbor who runs a restaurant (kyungbokgong) .. a good one too. pity he moved it way out of t

Re: [silk] Dzongkhalinux: made in Bhutan

2006-06-13 Thread Sean Doyle
Thanks. That makes much more sense than the other pages I had seen.On 6/12/06, Biella Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Sean Doyle wrote:> Why are they building on top of Fedora Core 2? This seems very old. I think they are building on Debian:http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/06/m

Re: [silk] Mmmmm, flame-broiled...

2006-06-13 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: [ on 05:15 PM 6/13/2006 ] It gets subtler. A "cantonese restaurant" in besant nagar, looks fairly new, that had kimchee as a starter, as a "cantonese cabbage dish" Now, angrily protesting koreans aside, I'd LOVE to see the effect a bite of kimchee has on an aver

Re: [silk] Mmmmm, flame-broiled...

2006-06-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Madhu Menon wrote: Oh, I had one customer recently who said he wasn't getting the real Asian experience because I wasn't serving "kimchee" before my meal like all those other nice Chinese restaurants - Mainland China et al. I tried Serve it to him. Or give him a huge scoop of wasabi, wait fo

Re: [silk] Mmmmm, flame-broiled...

2006-06-13 Thread Madhu Menon
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: It gets subtler. A "cantonese restaurant" in besant nagar, looks fairly new, that had kimchee as a starter, as a "cantonese cabbage dish" Now, angrily protesting koreans aside, I'd LOVE to see the effect a bite of kimchee has on an average iyer type whose only ex

Re: [silk] Mmmmm, flame-broiled...

2006-06-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Deepak Misra wrote: Some other nice Chinese dishes I have seen on menus though never tasted are "Sweet and Sour Mutton" , Chinese Roast Chicken Thai Style, Chilli Paneer. It gets subtler. A "cantonese restaurant" in besant nagar, looks fairly new, that had kimchee as a starter, as a "

Re: [silk] Mmmmm, flame-broiled...

2006-06-13 Thread Deepak Misra
A couple of years back when a French food festival was held in Delhi, the imported chefs burst into tears when they saw patrons pouring Tabasco sauce on their delicate creations (I remember reading that in the India Today) However I must insist that Gobi Manchurian (aka Manchoori or Manjuri along

Re: [silk] Beer Belly? No such thing.

2006-06-13 Thread Ingrid
the poster. On 6/13/06, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ingrid wrote: [ on 11:21 AM 6/13/2006 ]>I know someone who'd pay good money for that one. The poster or the box set?Udhay--((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) -- Only two things are infinite, the univers

Re: [silk] Mmmmm, flame-broiled...

2006-06-13 Thread Yazad Jal
About a month back, some guest wanted some fish made without any chilli. When told about one of our steamed fish dishes, he asked, "what colour is the sauce?" and since I found that a meaningless question, I tried to explain the flavours and cooking method instead. He then asked if I could make

Re: [silk] Mmmmm, flame-broiled...

2006-06-13 Thread Biju Chacko
On 13/06/06, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/13/06, Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I try out a new restaurant, I almost invariably ask the waiter to > order for me. I figure if *he* doesn't know, then it's probably not > worth my time. > Did you not try th

Re: [silk] Mmmmm, flame-broiled...

2006-06-13 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On 6/13/06, Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When I try out a new restaurant, I almost invariably ask the waiter toorder for me. I figure if *he* doesn't know, then it's probably notworth my time.Did you not try this out at the joint near your earlier office ? With disastrous consequences one

Re: [silk] Mmmmm, flame-broiled...

2006-06-13 Thread Deepa Mohan
On 6/13/06, Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 13/06/06, Madhu Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> c) I usually don't have a say in what they're ordering.When I try out a new restaurant, I almost invariably ask the waiter to order for me. I figure if *he* doesn't know, then it's probably notwo

Re: [silk] Mmmmm, flame-broiled...

2006-06-13 Thread Biju Chacko
On 13/06/06, Madhu Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: c) I usually don't have a say in what they're ordering. When I try out a new restaurant, I almost invariably ask the waiter to order for me. I figure if *he* doesn't know, then it's probably not worth my time. This has worked well in places w

Re: [silk] Mmmmm, flame-broiled...

2006-06-13 Thread Deepa Mohan
On 6/13/06, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That place is definitely odd !! Having shukto and sorsher maach in the same meal would be considered a sacrilege in most Bengali households. oh, there was no Shookto that day, he only had the sorsher maach. :Sankarshan -- You see things

Re: [silk] Mmmmm, flame-broiled...

2006-06-13 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On 6/13/06, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But  what usually happens is that at weekends, my husband and I avidly consider all the eating places we know and then look at each other's waistlines and then quietly go and eat idlis at the local Darshini...well, I did take him to that Ballyg

Re: [silk] Mmmmm, flame-broiled...

2006-06-13 Thread Deepa Mohan
Oh, that was the May issue of Man's World. It's probably too late to getit on the stands now, but I can lend you my copy some time.     yes, I would like to see it in actual print, there's something satisfying about that. (If you weren't practically a city away...)     I am actually glad. If I l

Re: [silk] Mmmmm, flame-broiled...

2006-06-13 Thread Madhu Menon
Deepa Mohan wrote: I enjoy your sense of humour tremendously. Let me know when your Kamal Nath piece comes out, want to get a hard copy of the article. Oh, that was the May issue of Man's World. It's probably too late to get it on the stands now, but I can lend you my copy some time. (If

Re: [silk] Mmmmm, flame-broiled...

2006-06-13 Thread Deepa Mohan
There are times in this business that homicidal urges must be curbed.Man With The Sharp Knives speaking...believe me, when I come next to Shiok, I will be SO careful what I order=shudder= otherwise I might be served up skewered as kebabs!   I enjoy your sense of humour tremendously. Let me

Re: [silk] Mmmmm, flame-broiled...

2006-06-13 Thread Madhu Menon
Deepa Mohan wrote: That's why you'll find the seafood on the top right of the third page, for instance, why would that be? Well, OK, technically it's page 4, but the first page has only a nice big picture of a whole fish, so the menu starts with starters on page 1 (falls on right sid