The restaurant

It has started raining outside. Wow, just a matter of seconds otherwise would have got heavily soaked. The laptop is safe, the only companion in the company to kill time. Nothing has gone perfect, since the morning. A very sluggish start, huge traffic on the way to office, not a single piece of work till evening. Wondering how many times would have checked "The Mail" expecting some one to be in the same state and share his/her feelings. Ultimately a failure, not a single soul to send something. Is everyone busy with his/her work? No, trying to pretend to be busy. Whatever, even the "Sent Items" column shows empty. Fine, a wry smile......

The waiter interrupted, kept the menu card and is gone. Back to senses, the rain drops are making heavy noise over the shutters, the only noise to be heard. Not too many people in the restaurant except for two to four couples. None of them is visible. A very cozy seat and a wonderful outside view through the glasses. OK, feeling very hungry. Racing through the menu, could smell each item in it. Wow, the fragrance is everywhere. The real beauty is the moments eyes starts racing through the menu, the nose smells the fragrance and the mouth starts watering. After all, the mind is doing all the job. Cool. What should be ordered now? Vegetarian or non vegetarian?

The mind starts oscillating especially when you are brought up in a vegetarian family but always craved to taste the spicy chicken, mutton, etc. The time is very friendly. Not a single friend around to make fun out of it. Can eat. Why not? No one will know about this. Does one of the couples out there know about this? Who cares? Will anybody else find out later. No. Today is the only day and definitely not going to eat anytime later. Its a promise. Now what to order. Which one will be good? What part of the animal will they give? Is it a dry item or gravy?

Slowly reading out the menu under the Non-vegetarian column. Again, the waiter interrupted asking about the order. Really, a shock. The waiter has a smiling face. Does he know about the struggle? What to do now. Not yet completed reading the menu. It is big. Asking him to come after 5 minutes, the menu is read very fast now. The list goes from chicken, mutton, fish, prawns, etc. No fish, people say it has got a weird smell. What is prawns? Leave it. Not needed. Left with chicken or mutton. Is Tuesday good for eating non-veg? What a stupid question! No decided to break the rule, whatever it may be. Which one will be spicier chicken or mutton? No today is chicken special. It is small and elegant. Wow, what a thought! Suddenly, left with only 10 choices in the list. What an achievement!

Again, 10 is a very big list to make a choice. The waiter interrupted. OK, this time the order should be made. Lets have a trick. Let the waiter make a choice. What is today's special? The waiter replied the entire menu. What a fool he is! Lets rephrase the question. what is best among them in chicken? Now the answer could be one. The restaurant's special chettinad chicken is the answer. What is that? Now the waiter recognizes and explains about the dish. Fine, its a dry item, boneless, spicy, six pieces, etc. Cool. The dish is selected.

All weird shapes start appearing in the mind. How will the dish be? Will it be a chicken as such with the skin removed? No, the waiter told six pieces. What those six pieces be. Fine. Lets have a look at other's table and find out. Got up to wash hand and looked stealthily at all the tables. Couldn't find any weird shape. In that table, one fellow was holding something big. Could see the bone in his hand and the way he ate that was really sickening. He simply bit it very hard. Couldn't look at it any more. Simply washed hands and came back very quickly to the table. Definitely not going to eat if it is like that. But the waiter explained it has boneless. Fine, going to get only the flesh part of chicken. Wont be difficult to eat.

The waiter interrupted with the loud voice "Special chettinad chicken, Sir!". What the hell! It appeared for a moment that everybody was looking at this table. But that was just a thought. Now eyes started looking at the plate. Wow, six pieces, dark brown in color roasted to a fine extent. Seasoned with onion, tomato, coriander leaves. Tooth pickers are stuck in each dish. Smells fine. It is red hot. The mouth started watering. Should or should not eat? Never mind. Looking stealthily across the restaurant. Is any one looking at the table? Must eat fast before any one could recognize what was ordered. Actually nobody is really looking at this table. Fine.

Picked the first piece. Blew it to make it warm. How to eat? Not an issue. Looks like cauliflower roast. Ok again a faster look around all the people. Now into the mouth and gone. Wow, it is really spicy. Very tasty. Not a big difference in taste with cauliflower roast. But anyway, it is special on its own way. Cool within moments all the pieces are gone. Nice. Now relieved. Nobody can really tell what was ordered unless the waiter informs. Anyway nice dish to have at this time.

The waiter interrupted. Asked for some other order. No the bill is the request. Rain has stopped. People started coming to the restaurant. It is becoming noisier. The waiters are running across the restaurant with varieties of food. Nowhere the "special chettinad chicken" is seen. Decided not to tell about this to any of the friends. Let the secret be within. The bill arrived and the waiter is heavily tipped. Looked the waiter and informed, through eyes, not to tell about this to any one. The waiter smiled and thanked and went. Got up the seat and was out through the doors thinking "Why some people are against eating non-veg. Really couldn't find out a reason. Feel pity for missing out a delicious dish on earth!"