MA5 15, 13 .. DAILY BREAD'S THAI FRUIT / VEGETABLE SALAD RE-VISITED ..

This IS for you Patti 99520 .. get ready-to-squeel again today! 

The rest of you are welcome to continue to follow along here with Patti and I!

Today I urge you to do so .. I have some new photos at the bottom of this Post that have nothing to do with my salad!

As I keep repeating .. Knowing that few if any of you are going to go-back to a previous Post .. when I want to add-onto a past Post .. I have no choice but to put up a new Post.  A new Post that you will look at because it is new and in-the-now.

I could say ..  

"I changed the Post titled .. DAILY BREAD .. OUI OUI ! .. that I wrote on Sunday, 10 March 2013 ..  So please go back and look at the revised Post!  In which I compare a few of my previous salads with today's salad."

But how and where do I say the above ? ..

Today's Post shows you photos of six (6) different versions of ..

Daily Bread's Thai Fruit and Vegetable Salad!

Daily Bread's salad has differed from day-to-day and sure enough .. today it WAS yet again different !

Below is a view looking down on Sunday's salad.  Sunday my salad had eight (8) items.   Individual grapes in the center with sliced apples, papaya, pineapple, oranges, tomatoes, cucumbers and green beans.

Below is a view looking down on Monday's salad.  Monday's  salad had nine (9) items.  Grapes on-their-vine in the center with sliced oranges, green beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, apples, papaya, pineapple and a new item .. fancy cut carrots!   

Below is a side-view of Monday's .. Thai Fruit and Vegetable Salad.

Right up-front are your fancy cut carrots!  What love!

Below we have Tuesday's (3rd) version of the salad.  True-to-form .. it was a 'tad' different from Sunday and Monday's salads !

There were no green beans Tuesday.  But in the center of Tuesday's salad was the new addition of a 'lime flower'!  that was surrounded by a circle of grapes!

And below we have the Wednesday (4th) version of my salad.  When the wait-staff set Wednesday's salad before me I squealed with delight !

Wednesday's salad was totally different in overall appearance from the previous three days!

Below is a side view of Wednesday's Thai Fruit and Vegetable Salad at Daily Bread here in 'Pondi' !

Below is Thursday's (the 5th) version of Daily Bread's Thai Fruit and Vegetable Salad!

For the FIRST TIME .. there are ten (10) items on the salad!

The lime flower .. grapes .. green beans .. then pineapple, papaya, oranges, cucumbers, carrots, apples and tomatoes.

The two photos below FOCUS IN ON THE LITTLE LIME FLOWER.

To quote 'Zilla .. "Nifty!"

On stage front and center .. LIME FLOWER!

And here we arrive on Friday, March 15, 2013 .. Julius (Caesar) you should have listened to the 'soothsayer' who told you .. 

"Beware the Ides of March!"

And below is today's (6th) version of the phenomenal salad!

A 'new development'!  By now the wait-staff at Daily Bread are fascinated by my process.  I order my salad.  My salad arrives.  I carry my salad outside and I photograph my salad.  Giggling and chortling to myself all-the-while!

So today I 'lured' two of my Daily Bread waiters into-my-web!  

Goodness NEVER ask an Indian .. "Do you want your picture taken!" .. IF you are not going to take their photo!

Now look-past and between them and you see a display case in the background.

Oh my goodness Captain!  Look at the goodies!  

I nearly decided NOT to publish the below photo BUT my two waiters look so very good that I wanted them in another photo!

"Cap?  Who took the above photo?"

"Hi 'Zilla!" 

Yesterday .. Thursday .. 14 March .. I got to 'raving' about my salad to a young French Backpacker!  He said smiling (humoring me!) .. "I will try one tomorrow!" 

So this lunchtime in he walks.  I keep quiet not looking-up because I do NOT want to intimidate him into ordering MY salad.

Awhile later .. looking-over-at-me .. he calls out to me .. "See?!" and points down to HIS salad!

Which HE photographed!  See his camera in his hand? 

  
He has-his-backpack with him!  Tonight at 10PM he leaves by bus for Bangalore!  Then on-to Hempi!  These young chaps are Lions!

And one last photo .. he finished his salad!  Oh My Goodness Patti .. HE even ate the lime flower!

Vive la France my friend!  He plans to check this site out this afternoon and see me at dinner time this evening.  He has time-to-pass until his bus at 10PM.

THANK YOU FOR SHOOTING THE ABOVE PHOTO OF MY TWO WAITERS AND MYSELF!

"Got it 'Zilla?"

Patti I nearly put him on-the-phone with you!  His English is so good that I thought he was from Los Angeles!

I can't speak for any of the rest of you BUT Patti and I are having fun here !

For $1.40 US!  Oh My!  Words Fail Me!  

I sure will miss my salad AND Daily Bread when I leave 'Pondi'!

Smiles .. Cap ..

THIS is humbling .. my waiters told me .. and I believe they are sincere .. "We will miss you when you leave us!"  

MAR 11. 13 .. CHINA TOWN RESTAURANT IN PONDI ..

BEFORE you 'freak out' and scream at me .. "Cap!  How many photos of Hot Breads do we have to look at?" .. hold on!

In the below photo I want you to look up to the top left of the photo and focus upon ..

China Town!

I think that in many of my discussions of Hot Breads .. I have also mentioned the China Town Chinese Restaurant located directly above Hot Breads.  To get to the China Town Restaurant you walk up the stairs that begin on the extreme left edge of the above photo.  Do you all see the word China above the motorcycle's front wheel?

In the second paragraph of my Post yesterday titled: DAILY BREAD .. OUI  OUI ! .. I made a point to state that while I now 'favor' Daily Bread as my general 'default' restaurant .. it is NOT my-one-and-my-only restaurant!

Yesterday I spent six (count them SIX) hours here at the Internet Cafe putting up the four Posts I published.

When I left the Internet Cafe here at 8PM I was hot and sweaty and just 'exhausted'.  On my way home to MOTHERS Guest House I said to myself .. "I need to splurge and have dinner at the China Town Restaurant!"

"Tonight I NEED UPSCALE!"

So I first stopped at my room and 'mopped myself up' with bottled drinking water from my waist to the top-of-my-head.  Refreshed I then went to the China  Town Restaurant.

FOR OPENERS IT IS EXTREMELY WELL AIR CONDITIONED!

Many of the restaurants have A/C (Hot Breads and Daily Bread and most in fact) BUT their A/C is not what I call radical!  It is good and refreshing but last night I wanted to FEEL A BIT CHILLED!  Last night I NEEDED EXTREME AIR CONDITIONING!

Oh my did the A/C at China Town feel great!

I was reluctant to snap a photo of the inside of China Town because it IS upscale and I did not want to bother the other customers.  In fact for this very reason I have NEVER snapped one photo inside China Town.

So what happened? !  A party of ten (a very elderly Indian couple with their children and grandchildren?) came in and I mean ..

The flash-bulbs begin to explode!  The China Town wait-staff themselves were 'shooting' the party!

"Ah Ha!  Thanks God for this!"

IT IS SO TRUE .. one photo can 'say so much' !

Subdued lighting .. extremely well air conditioned .. quiet  and proper .. just upscale!  NICE.  The senior wait-staff wear dark suits with white shirts and solid-black ties!  They are 'formal' to the point of being 'up tight'!   

My benefactors .. the party of ten .. were 90-degrees to my hard left .. well outside of the above photo that faces the street.

I splurged and ordered my two favorite entrees!

Beef with green peppers.  Served hot (temperature wise) and spicy!  The brown sauce is filled with finely (hand chopped with a Chinese Chefs knife) minced garlic / ginger and spices.  I just lap it up.  NO rice.  

    
And one day .. I swear .. maybe tonight! .. I will order TWO ORDERS of my other favorite!  Spicy Sesame Chinese Chicken Salad in a red-sauce with Pineapple.  It is served chilled.  I have got-to-tell-you .. in the below photo .. it does NOT look all that appetizing!  I eat with my own chop-sticks and I eat each and I eat every single piece of chicken and pineapple individually.  I make this last and last and last!

     
Do you see how MUCH chicken is on the above plate?  You can see the pineapple if you look closely.  Again it is served chilled.

When I left after well-over-an-hour I said to myself (having gotten chilled!) .. "The heat is going to feel good!"   

Much Joy!  Cap ..

Thank goodness for 'our' 'Zilla and his questions!

The bottom-line cost out-the-door tip included was a whopping 320 Rs .. or $6.40 US!  The green-pepper beef was 190 Rs and the Chinese sesame chicken salad was 95 Rs!    
       

FEB 25, 13 .. PONDICHERRY .. HOT BREADS ..

This should teach me NOT to be looking at what all of the French visitors are eating for their breakfast!  I asked my waiter this morning .. "What is that breakfast over there that they are all eating?" .. "The Spanish Omelette Sir!" .. "I will have one of those!" ..

Go down to Thursday February 21st for a special POST just on Hot Breads!

This is going to be FUN for Patti and others who 'know' me well .. so here we go! 


When-Oh-When is the last time that an Omelette has spoken to you?  Well it happened to me this morning at Hot Breads where I buy my wonderful bread.  Hot Breads have several different menus for each part of the day.  I want to show you their 'Spanish Omelette' from their breakfast menu !  EVERYTHING I have gotten at Hot Breads has been just GREAT .. from breakfast to lunch to evening meals!  So having 'eyed' what the French visitors were eating .. I tried one!

When she 'arrived' in front of me my 'Spanish Omelette' said to me! 


"JUST LOOK AT ME DAD!" .. "AREN'T I SOMETHING DAD!" .. "I take up your entire plate and I come with tomatoes and I come with cucumbers and I come with a nice piece of fresh lettuce and I come with a bowl of coleslaw and I come with nice french fried potatoes and I come FILLED with all sorts of wonderful things .. "JUST LOOK AT ME DAD !"  .. "AREN'T I SOMETHING DAD !"

"You sure are something you beautiful Spanish omelette!"  .. "Man alive!  The French sure know what to order for breakfast!"  Now .. in 'hindsight' .. I wonder why she is called a Spanish omelette?  Were she a FRENCH Omelette .. I maybe would have 'suspected'!  Read on my friends!    

 "You are one GOOD LOOKING Omelette !"

Well this is a FRENCH Bakery in the FRENCH  part of Pondicherry and .. I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN!  But my mind took a 'mental holiday' and POW!  I lived in Europe for four years and traveled in FRANCE and I am FRENCH by ancestory!


When I gingerly cut into my wonderful Omelette GUESS WHAT?


She WAS filled with lots and lots of goodies!  Some green peppers and some onions and lots of cheese and a few pieces of minced hot peppers  ..  and .. AND ..  OH NO ! .. 


She WAS ALSO FILLED WITH .. MUSHROOMS ! 'Shrooms!


Well I could NOT imagine cutting her into bits and into pieces and totally destroying her by picking out all of her mushrooms!   I just could NOT do this to my beautiful Omelette Friend!   So I just put on my Zen Mind and relaxed my way through her .. 'Shrooms and ALL!

With great love I totally enjoyed my way through my Omelette!  I ate each and everything on the plate and enjoyed it all!  I DID make sure to 'mix' with many bites some tomato and cucumber and lettuce and cole slaw and french fries to kind of 'hide' the 'Shrooms'!  In the end it all came out just fine! SHE WAS SO HAPPY .. ME TOO !


And she cost me 88 Rupees or .. adding on a nice gratuity .. 'about' Two Dollars and Twenty Five Cents!  

And tomorrow?  Back to my old stand-by!  One basic breakfast omelette with two pieces of toasted brown bread (dry no butter thank you!) and a 4 oz glass of Mango Juice (which I pour into 12 oz of water I bring with me) to make a full 16 oz glass of 'Mango' Juice!  

Smiles .. Cap .. I lived to tell the story!   

FEB 21, 13 .. INTO PONDICHERRY .. FRENCH BREAD AND OLIVE OIL ..

Hot Diggety Dog !  I am back in Pondicherry and I am in MY same guest house !  After getting kind-of-settled .. I went out and got water and olive oil and FRENCH BREAD !

To get a good idea of where both Chennai and 'Pondi' are located within India.. please see the map below following this Post.

Well fellow BREAD LOVERS enjoy the below photos !  I will start off by showing you a photo of the bakery (Hot Breads) immediately next door to MY Mothers Guest House here in Pondicherry. 
In addition to Hot Breads I enjoy the China Town Chinese Restaurant. 

When you enter the door .. on the wall to your immediate left .. you have the baked goods shown in the photos below.

OH THE FRENCH AND THEIR BREADS !  

OK I am going to 'zero in' on the loaves !   Isn't the love .. as shown in the artwork on the loaves .. just something very special ?

And every-other-day .. at 7AM .. I usually go in and I buy the one loaf of herbal bread they set out each morning.   I don't know why they only set out one loaf of the herbal bread .. but in the photo below is MY bread.

And OH YES Olive Oil Snobs .. this Colavita Extra Virgin Olive Oil cost me over Ten ($10) United States Dollars for 500ml .. take that you characters !  I have had Olive Oil Snobs look down upon Colavita Brand Olive Oil !  To me it tastes just great !

Luckily for YOU .. YOU do not have olive oil bottles talking to you ! I photographed Colavita with a white background and Colavita said to me .. "Dad ! I look better in black !"  Well Captain .. you don't have to listen and act do you ?

For a long writing on the trip here from New Delhi .. please  click onto the above link to .. Baba Kaps Doxology .. and you will find the most recent news ..

I am pretty 'road weary' but happy to be back in 'Pondi' and to settle for awhile .. 

MUCH JOY .. Cap ..