Surguru - Haven for Veggies!

Surguru was one of the earliest hotels to be set up in Pondicherry. They created the first multi storey hotel in Pondy right at the heart of the town. From that day to till date, they are the preferred veggie hotel for Pondyites. Today they have started expanding and now at 4 locations within Pondy. If you are a vegetarian, definitely Surguru is the place. Some of their traditional specialities include the 3 tast uthhappam. Visited both their branches in mission st and ecr, they have an excellent ambience, good food, good service. If you are visting Manakula Vinayagar temple in the morning, best to have your breakfast in Surguru Spot which is very close by.

Rating
3.75/5

Link:

http://www.hotelsurguru.com/

Trip Advisor:

http://www.tripadvisor.in/Restaurant_Review-g659792-d1079658-Reviews-Surguru-Pondicherry_Union_Territory_of_Pondicherry.html

ChinaTown - Restaurant - Review

After weeks of planning, finally got a chance to visit the ChinaTown restaurant in Ambour Salai. Really loved the place! The ambience is excellent. Quantity and Quality for the money is good. Its neat and design of the restaurant deserves kudos! The food was OK. I had hot and sour soup chicken soup, which was excellent. If you fancy some alcohol, good news to you, they do serve beer! They do home delivery as well.

If you are planning, for a weekend stay in Pondicherry, worth a  visit. It is also close to the White Town, so one could visit the tourist attractions nearby and move in here for lunch. But the best thing would be an evening dinner after a great shower.

Rating : 3.5/5

TripAdvisor link:

http://www.tripadvisor.in/Restaurant_Review-g659792-d1974294-Reviews-China_Town-Pondicherry_Union_Territory_of_Pondicherry.html

Address

https://maps.google.co.in/maps?q=China+Town,+H.M.Kassim+Salai,+Puducherry,+Pondicherry,+605001&ie=UTF8&hl=en&oi=geospell&ct=clnk&cd=1&geocode=FVMdtgAdqyXCBA&split=0

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Pondy Special Sundal!

One of the best outing for us in Pondicherry was to visit the beach during holidays. Of course, this was long before all the tourists started coming in! Its very crowded nowadays. We used to live in a quiet little town, with hardly people on the streets during Sundays. As a child used to remember the sundal we used to get from a old man in beach. It used to be awesome! Very tasty! He passed away and later for some time his son was doing the same business. But we don't find it nowadays. Mom did it today!!. So here is the recipe with a decent little pic!

 

Ingredients:

Curry Leaves

250 gm Peas

Coriander Leaves

1 slice of 250 gm Mango for garnishing

1 small piece of Ginger

2 Green Chilly

Oil

Garam Masala (One can use asafoeteda instead of garam masala as well)

Salt

 

Steps:

 

• Bake the peas in cooker in one  tumbler of water. Make sure to add salt.
• Make sure the peas becomes soft. 4 whistles would be decent enough . But depends on your cooker.
• Pour 3 teaspoons of oil in kadai and add 1 teaspoon of garam masala once the oil gets hot
• Cut the green chilly into small pieces and ginger into small pieces and add it to the oil
• Fry them for some seconds and then add the boiled peas along with small pieces of mango slice
• Mix it well and stir it for 2 - 3 minutes
• Add curry leaves, coriander leaves and mix it for some seconds

 

Its ready!!!

 

Have a taste of pondy special sundal!