Hot and Sausy! ZEUS Obscure

Yes, it's unpredictable to say the least and it's hot these days most of time. Right, it's mid May and it should be summer this part of the year but for a person living in UK for 5 months now and having to face the extreme cold weather, such a sudden change of weather seems to be a 'mithya'. You do not believe the rains here becoz they can pour anytime, then now you cannot even have fate in the once omnipresent cold either because they are no where to be seen now. And you cannot even believe the sun and it's heating capacity either. It's an ever going battle and the dilemma that goes with it; should I wear a jacket today? should I carry an umbrella along with me?

Then one sees the ceiling and remarkably there are no fans there and thankfully so, well being that would have injured, well all the desi community here. Who is fool enough not to switch it on in such a heat; temp sours up to 21 deg, wow!! So, if this is the normal temperature here so what is the English way to cool in such scrotching heat, hopefully will find out before I burn myself.

We normally have Indian food here, so in our home we cook Indian food, when we go out in Leeds itself we head for any Indian restaurant worth its name, and when we go to somebody place we have again hand made Indian food and when we go out to say some other place in UK, no points for guessing what we head straight for to satisfy our gastronomic needs. Even Indians in India would not be so fond of the ever present desi khana, than desis here are. So when today we decided to go for lunch somewhere to celebrate an activity we are doing here called 'CSS Restructuring' everybody was kind of unanimous that we are going to have something different. What it meant was quite clear we are bored of the desi diet.

And the vote was in favor of Chaophraya’s (THAI RESTAURANT & BAR). Again you may argue, we are not having anything English. But then what is English food, is it fish and chips, of just chips or potato wedges or the hundreads of other things they do with potatoes. Or the ever so famous English breakfast of beacon and sausages, well I kind of love this Englis hbreakfast, sure do. Or is it the Chicken Tikka Masala, the national dish of Great Britain, which when we ordered in the place called Keswick in Cumbria in a haunting desi restaurant, our Bangladeshi waiter and mind you most of the so called Indian restaurant are run by either Bangladeshi or Pakistani desis and not Indian, was quite amused because we were the first desi junta to order it. And just for a quick info bite, the Great Indian Chicken Tikka Masala has been made famous in UK by Bangladeshi chef and no body else and obviously by the ever some more taste hungry English janta who actually ate and found it very amusing.

Well returning back to my lunch at Chaophraya, 'PING YANG YOP' that what it was called and well hopefully will be called in the years to come:
It was grilled chicken marinated with Thai herbs, and servedwith a special peanut sauce and Thai jasmine rice with aromatic green tea.
The rice was well, sweet, ya you read it right, sweet as I was having some Indian Kheer, the only Indian tribe I know will love it are the gujus or may be not, next the meat can be called good. And all the gravy that was there, which was just spoon full for the entire meal was sprinkled on the chicken itself. So came the great Indian dilemma how to eat rice without any gravy to melange rice in and gulp it. But I innovatively managed it somehow to the extent that I actually enjoyed the meal.

And to say some things about the ambience at Chaophraya, it was hmmm THAI! And the waiters were hmmm THAI! And the other guests were hmmm ...