Indian Cuisine and Western Style

Indian meals , rather delicacies when served in western style , specially buffet they can mess up the whole thing. Imagine after board room meeting when the buffet lunch is served how sometime one feels. You may hold a plate over a paper napkin, served on them chapattis with “dal makani”. The spoon, fork and knife lay by the side, you have to help yourself with your fingers. The big question comes, what use the spoons, forks and the knife have? You never know. More humiliating when you are served with chicken breast roast or “ tondur” dishes. I feel so embarrassing when I can`t hold the stuff with my both the hands and help myself ! In such buffet, you have to eat while people are milling around you, there is the tension, that a lump of gravy may jump off your plate and spoil your coat or shirts , god forbid it may spoil others apparel as well. Think , it that personality happens to belong to fairer sex!

Our dishes are best suitable to be ate on floor and off course with the freedom of fingers and tongue. Think how frustrating it is , if you cannot lick your fingers after dipping them in ” Kheer” or the spoon ; in case that is in use! Unless you comfortably sit on floor, possibly with bare torso, how can you feel the pleasure of eating “Gulab Jamoon”, dripping the sweet syrup. Oh, instead imagine the Director of your organization helping himself with “Gulab Jamoon” in one hand and on the other, a mug of coffee! After it is office lunch or dinner, there is etiquette. I feel god bless them.