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South Indian Restaurant Decoder Ring from Evil Mad Scientist Labs
Lexica
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3-29-2009 1:28 PM
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indian-food
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glossaries
Lexica
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Sounds very useful – gotta print out a copy for myself.
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3-30-2009
1:11 AM
Kreuzberg-Jakob
Thanks for posting!
I take a copy for me too!
3-30-2009
12:18 PM
tanyamm
Sounds like a good plan.
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They are almost invariably vegetarian, so it is generally safe-- even for non-carnivores --to order anything off of the menu. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/walletdecoder">But here's the rub: the menus tend to be terse</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/walletdecoder">clear descriptions of the menu items are the exception, not the rule</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/walletdecoder">Moreover, the waiters aren't always trained to give explanations to non-Indians.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/walletdecoder"><P> That little bit of trivia may stick in your mind for a short while, but will you remember it the next time you are at the restaurant? (Will we?) And what if you can't remember what uthappam is? Some restaurants include more information on their website than they do on their printed menu (<A href="http://www.saravanabhavan.com/menu/U.S.A/california_us.pdf">Saravanaa Bhavan</A> [pdf] and <A href="http://www.udupipalace.com/menu.htm ">Udupi Palace</A> are good examples) but it would be a hassle and require planning to print out their online menu to take with you. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/walletdecoder"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.evilmadscientist.com/img/8D3F6DBC-A722-4F90-B24E-C86A9CB377FC" alt="Decoder 1" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/walletdecoder">we've put together a <A href="http://www.evilmadscientist.com/extmedia/southindian.pdf">South Indian Restaurant Menu Decoder Wallet Card</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/walletdecoder"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.evilmadscientist.com/img/A7B69285-C96B-4E0F-9036-66771589419D" alt="Decoder 2" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8686AD03-627D-4529-8203-B7CAF4DFBE5D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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