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| NYE 2000 |
K and I are not into public expression of feelings on social media, so this should do as a #valentinesday post.
The picture above is of our first (mirror) selfie together. Circa 2000 year end. Taken on my dad’s Pentax.
The text that follows chronicle all the places we ate at while dating and the dishes that we chose. Circa 2000-2001. We had first met at Nirmal Building where FCB Ulka Advtg then was.
Breakfast from Nirmal:
Alu cheese chilli toast. Order placed with sandwich-wala. Delivered up in office. Extra slice of alu for her.
Lunch from Nirmal:
Bay Bites: Kashmiri (actually Parsi) mutton pulao dal for him, Tropicana orange with grape for her
Status Annexe: Paratha with veg korma for him plus free sambar and chutney, Tropicana for her
Pav Bhaji stall opp Nirmal: Freshly made PB for him, nothing for her
Chicken fried rice for him at the Zunka Bhakar stall for him. Tropicana for her
Rajesh Juice stall: Mango milk shake in season for both. Strawberry milk shake and grape juice for him.
Friday Lunch from Nirmal:
Leopold: Beef chilli fry and prawn fried rice (the only rice dish she would eat). Followed by the tiniest brownie in the world/ by two.
Mocambo: Mutton do piyaza and roti plus lassi (before it’s facelift)
JATC Churchgate: Ham and cheese grilled sandwich
Kobe: Shared mixed meat sizzler, only fries no veg.
Golden Star Thali: Thali in aamras season
RTI Lunch : Cheese bakes and roasts
Evening from Nirmal:
Bhel wala opposite Nirmal: Sev Puri for him. Bhel puri for her.
Oberoi shopping arcade snack bar: Ham and cheese sandwich with post 6 pm discount
Vada pav wala in front of LIC building on the way to Churchgate: Vada pav for him, just vada for her.
Dinner town:
Leopold: Same as lunch
Churchill: Peach ice tea (out of Lipton sachet), chicken sausage with firecracker sauce, prawn marinara penne, chocolate cake heated
New Martin Hotel: Goan sausage chilli fry, pork vindaloo, steak onion fry, pav
Crystal: Sukha alu, paneer bhurji, kaali dal, rajma, roti
Mahesh Lunch Home. Squid butter pepper garlic and prawn gassi with neer dosa.
Gokul: Prawn balls, peanuts with drinks followed by chewy, dry seekh kebabs at Bade Miya
Hotel New Bengal: Mess at terrace with no name. Bengali maachh thala surrounded by dadas in 3/4 th pyjamas and panjabis and boudis in maxis
Sterling before movies: Ham sandwich, samosa, nutty finger and lemon tart at RTI canteen
New Excelsior Cafe before movies: Mutton cutlet, pav, gravy separate
Baskin Robins: Bownie a la mode
JATC Bandra: Unlimited salad, half plate. Responsibility of stacking the pyramid. His. Occasionally sharing of brownie with ice cream
Khane Khas Bandra: Tandoori
chicken, kaali dal, tandoori roti
Toto’s: Fried sausage plus drinks
Temptation Pub: Drink followed by chilli chicken/ fish with Hakka noodles at Sahiban
First Meal after I proposed
Leopold: Beef chilli fry & prawn fried rice
First Valentine’s Day together
Gallops: Liver pate, bacon wrapped prawns, lobster Thermidor
Meet the parents:
K’s parents: JATC Churchgate over ham and cheese and egg grilled sandwiches
My mom and brother: Kobe’s Bandra
Wedding day lunch with immediate family: Starters & More buffet
First dish he made for her post marriage: Omelette in the evening
Dinner with immediate family:
Gallops: Pre-ordered Indian dinner. (He was too nauseous to eat! Nerves?)
No badam milk was consumed on wedding night. Most of which was spent packing for trip to Kolkata the next day!
We had dinner together every night barring Sundays for a year,
went dutch and yet I went broke the night before we got married. ‘Balance is zero,’ said the HSBC ATM at Express Towers after I withdrew money to pay the tax on air tickets bought on work Air India frequent flyer points to Goa and back for our honeymoon.
Which is why all our dinners for the first two years after we got married, were cooked at home. In the verandah of our rented apartment in Khar that pretended to be a kitchen. Possibly Valentine’s too.
The selfie at the end of this post is that of ours from a few days back at our suite at the Trident Nariman Point which looked on to the sea at one side and the Nirmal Building on the other. The latter housed FCB Ulka Advtg, where K and I first met in early 2000.
Yes, ours was a work place romance. Thank god we were not working from home then!
Happy V Day @spalifekainaz
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| Feb 2022 |
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