T.Nagar. No flyover, not much hype about T.Nagar. Early morning driving lessons. Valli Driving School. Instructor's meeting point, Pondy Bazar bus stand. Early morning 6 am. No median wall on the road. Crows have not found their prey. They are making a noisy complaint for not getting food. Driving Instructor Babu arrives driving a Kinetic Honda, the precursor for women's lib in Indian Metros. Grinning at you he parks his bike. Before putting the scooter stand he calls out, enna sare, babu is from Kanyakumari, oru kapi kudikkalamaa? It is more of an information than a request. We enter the hotel behind the bus stop. Portly cashier looks like lord Shiva with a hair cut. Few customers. Mostly, persugal, who took the first opportunity to get outdoor under the pretext of morning walk. They are complaining against Rajiv Gandhi for their sons going to work on saturdays also. Babu and I take a table. The server; network servers not known to general public those days; knows babus routine and brings two tabara coffees. Tabara is about 2.5 inches high. Coffee foam frothing above finds a dome shaped equilibrium. An elderly foreign couple enter and get seated beside us. Man in the proverbial tourist attire, a black bermuda and a khaki t.shirt. The lady in a purple and white long gown with large pattern flowers. They order for coffee. Our server dishes out madras brahmanal kapi. They stare at that with trepidation. They politely ask for coffee again. Now the shiva sitting at the cash comes to the rescue. The bermuda man asks for coffee. Cashier says this is coffee. The coffee exporter in me explains to the couple this is some what similar to cafe latte, the world famous Madras kaapi. But they insist on American black coffee. Shiva now understands what his clients need and brings black coffee in rosemilk glass tumbler. The lady wipes the rim with tissue and sips. Thunderbolt. Her eyes widen in pleasant surprise and exclaims this is the best coffee so far she had in their world tour. Black or white madras kapi madras kapi thaan, Babu jokes and asks polaama sare. =mdr=
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Madras Kaapi
T.Nagar. No flyover, not much hype about T.Nagar. Early morning driving lessons. Valli Driving School. Instructor's meeting point, Pondy Bazar bus stand. Early morning 6 am. No median wall on the road. Crows have not found their prey. They are making a noisy complaint for not getting food. Driving Instructor Babu arrives driving a Kinetic Honda, the precursor for women's lib in Indian Metros. Grinning at you he parks his bike. Before putting the scooter stand he calls out, enna sare, babu is from Kanyakumari, oru kapi kudikkalamaa? It is more of an information than a request. We enter the hotel behind the bus stop. Portly cashier looks like lord Shiva with a hair cut. Few customers. Mostly, persugal, who took the first opportunity to get outdoor under the pretext of morning walk. They are complaining against Rajiv Gandhi for their sons going to work on saturdays also. Babu and I take a table. The server; network servers not known to general public those days; knows babus routine and brings two tabara coffees. Tabara is about 2.5 inches high. Coffee foam frothing above finds a dome shaped equilibrium. An elderly foreign couple enter and get seated beside us. Man in the proverbial tourist attire, a black bermuda and a khaki t.shirt. The lady in a purple and white long gown with large pattern flowers. They order for coffee. Our server dishes out madras brahmanal kapi. They stare at that with trepidation. They politely ask for coffee again. Now the shiva sitting at the cash comes to the rescue. The bermuda man asks for coffee. Cashier says this is coffee. The coffee exporter in me explains to the couple this is some what similar to cafe latte, the world famous Madras kaapi. But they insist on American black coffee. Shiva now understands what his clients need and brings black coffee in rosemilk glass tumbler. The lady wipes the rim with tissue and sips. Thunderbolt. Her eyes widen in pleasant surprise and exclaims this is the best coffee so far she had in their world tour. Black or white madras kapi madras kapi thaan, Babu jokes and asks polaama sare. =mdr=
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