Yogurt Rice... steamed cake!

It was Tamil New year... just was thinking what i would normally do on this day...er..going to temple... So we planned to visit the temple.. here which is some 30 mins drive from our home. We went to the temple in the evening.It is basically a vishnu temple. It is located out of the city in the mountains of the near by place called Malibu of Santa monica and drive was good. Temple was very neat and calm. Ulla pona vudanne…antha kovil vaasanai varume – mixture of camphor, oil, viboothi etc. I felt like I was in indian temple but still…!.

The temple has been built as per the building norms in US. It was built around 1984. They say itz been built as per chola’s style…some what I cud relate it – the gopuras and prakaras. Irunthaalum I didn’t get tht feel. Well they perform proper poojas and the shrines are I guess made of pancha ulogam. Not sure about this.

I badly wanted cofee. The temple's canteen also didnt ve coffee. so i setttled down for tea and we bought prasadam. He said only thing available was pongal and yoghurt rice combo. I was blinking wht was that yoghurt rice....athaan namma thair saatham thaan US stylea solraaru thalaivar. He is a tamizh guy only...but was speaking in full broken english. I kept on speaking in Tamizh and this guy was answering in english...namakku kadupaaiduchilla...thamizhaye pesunga anna nu solleten. Athuku avar solraaru...niraya peru varaanga athaana naan confuse ayidrennu [ithayum avar englishla sonnaaru paarunga...sema kaandaaiten pesama sirichuttu vanthuten]. Then we went to his frns house. Anga she made filter cofee for us....so it was COFFEE WITH GEETHA. her name :D :D watched a horror movie and i was too tired to cook.

Raj suggested of going to indian resturant. "Flavours of India" nnu ..anga pona,...steamed cake nu oru item..ennadaannu paatha...ada namma idili nga...but we were too hungry so we orded some naan & parathas packed and came back home. veetla vanthu saapitom. epadi nama thamizh puthaandu celebration. So started adjusting to live in this place settling down with indian memories of actual YOGURT RICE AND STEAMED CAKE~!!