Mess Food

Mess Food – An Analysis of an Engineer(to be)

It was in first year that I had the first bite of the “very famous – mess food”[J]. It is generally known for the state of the art technology used in preparation and the Chinese mess food people. The first dish I got to have I still remember was the best you can imagine. Its 2 years since them and the menu is the same and so is the same quality. I guess some things never change….

Dish1: Dal, Rice, Onion(salad), Roti and plate and spoon and of course water. The very first look at the dal I thought it must be so so (after all the colour was matching). The moment I actually put in the serving spoon to take it I actually analyzed it was nothing but coloured yellow water. I was amazed that nothing actually came into the plate except water. Even soups are better than this. I was actually wondering how do you take it in. Then came in the rotis. Oh god what do you comment on them seems like oil in our country is free. It was already wet in oil and the moment the Chinese/nepali mess guy gave it to me my whole plate got wet. I was simply amazed still Engineers are known for flexibility I had a bite at it. The moment I tried a piece of roti with the dal nothing actually came. I repeated the same step about 4-5 times just like a for loop in a computer program. But unfortunately the output was the same not even the colour came on the roti. As they say “Majboori ka naam Mahatma Gandhi” I had to take that bite. It took me about 5 mins to eat one roti. Now came the turn of the so called “sabzi as they call it”. It was Aloo matar – Mess or rather I should say UP is famous for potatos. “Har cheez mein aloo” I guess in a few days we would start looking like “aloos”. Sometimes I wonder potatoes in Uttar Pradesh are free maybe that’s why they have potatoes in every dish. How can I forget the rice. I had heard of Basmati, Kohinoor and I don’t know what. But what rice is actually I got to know in the mess. We have a special rice quality imported from (that’s a secret). Its white in colour and the size of a rice piece is about 3 cms. Its really a treat for anyone who hasn’t tried it yet. I guess each and every person should try this sort of state of the art food prepared by the “famous Sanjeev Kapoor trained chefs”.

Rating: 0.9/10…0.9 for managing the colour of Dal.