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A lake-lustre affair

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FOODIES'FEEDBACK

ASHWINI N

Koondhal
Varattiyathu

(L-R): Bijoy Venugopal, Rohini Nair and Alankar

Coast Stars: My dinner companions Fishy: The Beef coconut fry, which is
were Rohini Nair, senior software engi- quite a holy cow in Kerala cuisine,
neer at HP, her husband Alankar, Pro- proved really disappointing, and some
gramme Manager at Wipro, their daugh- portions were undercooked. We
ter Mythili, who shared my enthusiasm agreed with Bijoy when he said that it
for pappadams and Bijoy Venugopal, En- would require quite a meen chef to
trepreneur and Content Consultant, serve an underwhelming Fish Moilee,
whose humour helped us tide over the but the hardly-there coconut milk en-
long waiting time. sured just that. The desserts left a lot
to be desired. The Ela Ada (coconut
Keratint: The décor is quite classy, and jaggery filling inside rice dough and
the furniture does lend a Kerala touch cooked in banana leaves) wasn’t sweet
elegantly. The walls are adorned with in- enough and the Parippu Payasam
teresting curios. In essence, if we can failed to deliver too.
ignore the rather dim lighting, it’s a
SIGNATURE DISH: Service: Bijoy aptly described the
INTHEPAN
The Meen main course dishes with appams/ comfortable setting.
Nirachathu, (fish) Njandu Kerala Parathas and a dessert would service time as ‘meenwhile’, a fishy
Kurumulaguittathu (crab) among set you back by ` 1500. Bait: If you’re the kind who un- unit that included the time taken to
VEMBANAD others. abashedly likes coastal food, you bring the catch from the Vembanad
would appreciate the menu. The lake. The waiter was definitely helpful
Manu Prasad COST: We Malayalis would pro- VENUE: The Paul, 139/28, Domlur starters section makes this point quite and even suggested dishes, but

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bmfeedback@indiatimes.com nounce it ‘coastly’, and deservedly Layout, Off Intermediate Ring Road, clearly with its complete lack of foul that hardly solved the other weighty
so. A seafood starter, two non-veg Bangalore – 71. Tel: 40477777. play. The main course section makes a service issues.
show of ducking the issue and provid-
amed after the famous lake ing some other relief in the form of Verdict: For some reason, if you happen
in Kerala, Vembanad is a Kozhi beef and chicken. The vegetarians are to have a (mostly) Kerala coastal cui-
fine dining restaurant that Mappas reasonably well looked after and have sine craving and want it delivered in a
claims to specialise in no cause to complain. star hotel setting, you might consider
southern seafood cuisine, the place. Otherwise, the city provides
but though the coastal slant is Good Catch: The Koondhal Varattiyathu enough options to have equally (if not
evident in the menu, the focus is (squid) had an awesome pepper masala more) tasty food at a fraction of the
clearly on Kerala dishes. While that made it an excellent starter. The price. Hardly anything can be worth the
that’s arguably a good hook, what Meen Nirachathu – seared fish with a wait we endured!
sinks it is the inordinate amount raw mango stuffing was just about okay.
of time taken to serve the food! “Oh The crispy Parippu (dal) Vadas were The writer is a brand consultant,
fish” would be an apt expression for good too, though you would find the who is always on the look-out for a
our experience. price hard to digest. The Kozhi (chicken) restaurant that serves him right.
Mappas, a classic Syrian Christian
GENESIS: Vembanad is part of The preparation with coriander and a mild FOOD
Paul Hotel, a luxury five-star hotel coconut flavour, and the Pachakari (veg- AMBIENCE
on the Intermediate Ring Road. The etable) Kurma, saved the main course. SERVICE
restaurant started operations on The appams were fantastic, though the
October 8, and is planning to expand delays meant that we were forced to Bangalore Mirror reviews
its menu with other coastal cuisine ask Eppam?! (when) anonymously and pays for its meals
options soon.

THE2-MINUTEREAD
PEOPLE JUDGED HARSHLY FOR GENDER SPECIFIC JOBS YOUNG GIRLS LIKELY TO BE FATTENED BY LOVE
A NEW study, which examined percep- the United States--a job formerly re- RESEARCHERS HAVE warned that young girls Youngsters with an overweight mother or fa-
tions of people in high-powered jobs, served for white men. are far more likely to be fatter than boys for ther, or a mother who smokes, are also likely
has found that they are likely to be Brescoll came up with a list of high- they are over-pampered by their parents and to be heavier. "Girls and only children are
judged more harshly for mistakes if status jobs that are normally held by one do not get enough exercise. By the age of more likely to become overweight between
they are in a job that is not normally as- gender or the other. This was easy for seven, one in four girls is too heavy com- the ages of five and seven. It is not clear
sociated with their gender. Re- men, but actually quite difficult for pared to just one in six boys, a study of chil- whether the increased risk for girls is due to
searchers suspected that people who women. For this study, they compared dren found. Its authors blamed mothers, and them being over-fed compared to boys, or
have a job not normally associated with various roles such as a police chief, warned that 'puppy fat' should not be ig- because they are involved in less physical
their gender would be under closer a traditionally male role, a female CEO nored, calling on parents to act early. The In- activity," the Daily Mail quoted Principal
scrutiny and more likely to get in trou- of an aerospace engineering firm and a stitute of Education analysed the weights of author Dr Alice Sullivan as saying. -ANI
ble for mistakes. "Any mistakes that chief judge. 11,000 children taking part in the Millennium
they make, even minor ones, could be She says, “Like the glass ceiling that Cohort Study — which is tracking youngsters
magnified and seen as greater mis- keeps women from rising higher, the born between 2000 and 2002. Seven-year-
takes," said Victoria Brescoll, a psycho- glass cliff is what counter-stereotypical olds who are only children are 25 per cent
logical scientist at Yale University and individuals (such as female police chiefs) more likely to be overweight than those with
author of the study. In the 2008 presi- are in danger of falling from.” The study one sibling and 30 per cent more likely to be
dential election, a woman came close is published in Psychological Science, a overweight than those with two.
to getting a nomination, and an African- journal of the Association for Psychologi- It is thought that this is due to over-indul-
American man ended up President of cal Science. PTI gent parents and a lack of playmates at home.

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