# The Imperfect Post

> Imperfect, But Real


## Posts

- [A Day of Pothichoru](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/07/29/a-day-of-pothichoru/): Over the past few weeks, I have been hearing quite a lot of buzz about this &#8220;Pothichoru&#8221; by Ms. Swapna Rakesh with people claiming that her&#8217;s is the best Pothichoru available in Trivandrum&#8230; For those who are unaware, &#8220;Pothichoru&#8221; is a traditional meal parcel thats very popular in Kerala, especially Trivandrum&#8230; Its basically the Keralite meal consisting of boiled rice, a spicy coconut chutney, pickles, fried fish, stir fried vegetables (thoran/mezhukkupuratty) and even an omelette in some cases, all wrapped in a slightly toasted banana leaf and then wrapped in a newspaper 🙂 This was essentially the equivalent of the brown [&hellip;]
- [Imperial Kitchen - Chicken Manchow Soup, Barbeque Bites, Paprika rubbed Steak and Bambaiyya Falooda](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/07/21/imperial-kitchen-chicken-manchow-soup-barbeque-bites-paprika-rubbed-steak-and-bambaiyya-falooda/): Back at Imperial Kitchen, Trivandrum once again and this time explored the menu even further usual&#8230; Thinks to the restaurant&#8217;s website having their full menu, which I discovered recently, I did plan ahead on what all I should get this time&#8230; So, this time, my order consisted of the Chicken Manchow Soup, which is one of my favourite soups to have, especially when having cold or a sore throat, followed by a starter called Flakey BBQ Chicken Bites and then for mains, I went for the Paprika rubbed Chicken and then finally for dessert, what they call the Imperial Falooda&#8230; The [&hellip;]
- [Leela's Kitchen - First Dinner Order](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/07/19/leelas-kitchen-first-dinner-order/): In a spur of the movement decision, me and my mom decided to order our dinner from Leela&#8217;s Kitchen today and I placed the order on PinStove&#8230; So, this time we found some items that intrigued us and so we chose them&#8230; Our order consisted of one of their snacks, namely what they call Crispy Paneer Popcorns and then for mains, a portion of Punjabi Aalu Paratha, Malai Kofta, Fresh Ginger Fried Rice, Paneer 65 and a combo of Punjabi Chole and Kulche&#8230; It was a raining and so the food arrived slightly late and to our surprise, we found something [&hellip;]
- [Cafe Coffee Day - Almond Rabdi Frappe](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/07/18/cafe-coffee-day-almond-rabdi-frappe/): Went to the Cafe Coffee Day inside Hotel Ginger today on my way back after some shopping for home today&#8230; A few days ago, my parents visited the place and informed me about a new drink thats available now and their review was that it was the best version of &#8216;Rose Milk&#8217; they have ever had in their lives&#8230; Hence, the same was my target for the day 🙂 Well, turned out it is called &#8216;Almond Rabdi Frappe&#8217; and it is essentially a Rose and almond flavoured iced milk shake (frappe) topped with whipped cream, roasted almonds and some more rose [&hellip;]
- [SP Grand Days - First Visit](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/07/17/sp-grand-days-first-visit/): First of all, to be frank, I was avoiding SP Grand Days in Trivandrum for quite a while, simply because my parents have been there for some wedding receptions and also for official events and have always been giving me negative reviews regarding the food&#8230; I have been there just once to attend an interview, but never tried the food&#8230; However, while out on work, my friend/colleague took me over at there for lunch&#8230; It was a bit crowded over there because of a wedding ceremony going on and we went in to their restaurant on the 2nd floor&#8230; My friend [&hellip;]
- [Supreme Upper Crust - Tiramisu &amp; Litchi-Strawberry Smoothie](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/07/16/supreme-upper-crust-tiramisu-litchi-strawberry-smoothie/): A few of my friends have been recommending I check out Supreme Upper Crust, especially after seeing my reviews on other similar places&#8230; Finally after a long time, I finally got the chance to visit the place&#8230; It was an evening after work and since I was feeling a bit dehydrated, I just stopped by to have a drink and ended up having a snack as well&#8230; One of the things that made me go there is that I heard that they do make a set of good cheesecakes, something which I found to be impossible to find so far&#8230; The [&hellip;]
- [Cocoa Bean - Barbecue Chicken, Chicken Stroganoff, Bistecca Di Pollo, Velvet Chicken Cake &amp; Banana Split](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/07/11/cocoa-bean-barbecue-chicken-chicken-stroganoff-bistecca-di-pollo-velvet-chicken-cake-banana-split/): After quite a while, today I visited the Cafe Cocoa Bean in Kazhakuttom again for lunch&#8230; This time, with my dad&#8230; We had our lunch there and took take away for my mom and grandmother&#8230; Compared to my previous visits, I was surprised since I found the place crowded with tourists&#8230; Seeing their tour bus outside, I guess they stopped for lunch along their way&#8230; We end up waiting for a few minutes till a table became available for us&#8230; Once we sat down, a new surprise&#8230; Instead of the usual two menus, now there are 3 as they have started [&hellip;]
- [Leela's Kitchen: Pav Bhaji Surprise](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/07/09/leelas-kitchen-pav-bhaji-surprise/): Well, a day after my last order with Leela&#8217;s Kitchen, I saw an ad by the owner Deepika N K, that they are having a Mumbai style Pav Bhaji special for the next day and were accepting orders in advance&#8230; However, I couldn&#8217;t find the item listed in PinStove and on contacting, found out that its some kind of technical difficulty&#8230; However, Deepika said she&#8217;ll still accept my order directly and send it over on a CoD plan 🙂 So, ordered for two and as per the offer for the Kitchens of Tvm members, I got one extra for free&#8230; Having [&hellip;]
- [Leela's Kitchen: 2nd Attempt](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/07/09/leelas-kitchen-2nd-attempt/): It was my mom&#8217;s birthday a few days ago and as I have mentioned before, since she loved North Indian food, we decided to order again from Leela&#8217;s Kitchen for the occasion&#8230; It was pretty much a last minute decision and so was not sure if we could order for lunch&#8230; Then I contacted the owner and she graciously said its fine and I placed the order thru PinStove&#8230; The owner, Deepika N K even posted a screenshot of my order in Facebook saying its from her favourite customer 😀 🙂 This is the second time we ordered from Leela&#8217;s Kitchen [&hellip;]
- [Hotel Ginger - Buffet](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/06/15/hotel-ginger-buffet/): Last week, I came to know that Hotel Ginger has started a Buffet table for lunch on an experimental basis&#8230; As mentioned previously, the team running the restaurant is a new one and this is the first time they are doing a buffet spread ever since they took over here at Ginger&#8230; First impression is that its simple ie, just enough variety to satisfy your palette&#8230; I normally don&#8217;t like large buffet spreads as it is my experience so far that when it comes to buffet, pretty much all restaurants show a decline in quality in the food they serve when compared [&hellip;]
- [Thakkaaram - First Visit](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/06/15/thakkaaram-first-visit/): I have been hearing quite a lot about the recently opened branch of Thakkaaram restaurant in Kazhakuttom&#8230; Its been months since they opened and I have been hearing mixed reviews about the same&#8230; Finally visited the place with my parents for dinner&#8230; The place is quite clearly designed to give an airport like experience where you have check-in counters for take-outs to the small passenger waiting area where they have you sit till a table becomes available for you&#8230; Their menu is quite funny to read as the names are&nbsp;how shall I say, quite creative with a pinch of good humour, [&hellip;]
- [Hotel Ginger - Soups, Fried Rice and Seafood](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/06/07/hotel-ginger-soups-fried-rice-and-seafood/): Basically this post covers two visits that I had to the restaurant at Hotel Ginger, one of which happened about 2 weeks ago and the other happened last week&#8230; This place is the one I visit quite often compared to other places&#8230; I go there at-least once a week or two&#8230; The reason simply is that just like I mentioned in my previous posts regarding the place, this place serves what I observe to be the healthiest food among all the restaurants in Trivandrum, so much so that it feels and tastes practically home-cooked, even though it clearly is not&#8230; Also, [&hellip;]
- [All Spice - Biryani](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/06/07/all-spice-biryani/): I must mention first that I do end up being too busy sometimes to have this blog keep up with my activities&#8230; So, especially since food is a major part of this blog, I have made it a practice to take pics of what I eat from outside and note down a few words regarding them to help me remember and then create the posts&#8230; I have been a bit too busy lately and hence have got a few pending reviews to post here&#8230; So, this one and the next few posts are just that&#8230; These are all from a couple [&hellip;]
- [Leela's Kitchen - First Try](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/06/06/leelas-kitchen-first-try/): A couple of months ago, I saw an ad in Facebook about Leela&#8217;s Kitchen a home-made food venture by Deepika NK&#8230; The ad said that she specialises in vegetarian Dhaba style North Indian cuisine and since me and my mother love North Indian food, I thought of giving Leela&#8217;s Kitchen a try and so contacted Deepika and was informed about this app called PinStove whom she works with to have the food delivered&#8230; But unfortunately an iOS version of the app wasn&#8217;t available at the time and since I don&#8217;t have an android phone, I had to wait for the iOS [&hellip;]
- [Oriental Spice - Tomato Egg-Drop Soup and Volcano Chicken](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/06/02/oriental-spice-tomato-egg-drop-soup-and-volcano-chicken/): Back at Supreme&#8217;s Oriental Spice restaurant in Trivandrum after a meeting with a colleague of mine&#8230; As I have mentioned before, the Chinese and South East Asian food that they serve is incredibly good&#8230; The restaurant looked as impeccable as always and this time, I went for a couple of their specialty dishes from their menu, namely their Tomato Egg-Drop Soup and what they call the Volcano Chicken&#8230; The Tomato Egg-Drop soup(pls excuse the lower quality image) used to be my favourite soup quite a while back when the restaurant named Chef Master used to exist near the Trivandrum Medical College&#8230; [&hellip;]
- [Imperial Kitchen - First Visits](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/05/20/imperial-kitchen-first-visits/): I have been hearing good reviews about this place called Imperial Kitchen in Trivandrum&#8230; Managed to finally visit there thanks to some of my friends / colleagues with whom I went there on a work day for lunch&#8230; This is the restaurant whose decor, I think is the closest to the Mandarin Trail restaurant that I keep referring to&#8230; Unfortunately in the middle of all the chaos, I was not able to take any pics and so, all the pics included here are from my second visit to the place&#8230; Imperial Kitchen calls itself an international restaurant and its perfectly reflected [&hellip;]
- [Oriental Spice - Dim Sum and Nasi Goreng](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/05/11/oriental-spice-dim-sum-and-nasi-goreng/): This is my second visit to the Oriental Spice restaurant in Trivandrum&#8230; This time I went there with a friend/collegue for lunch&#8230; Now, me being this foodie, he had me choose the dishes as he was too confused with what to order from the menu&#8230; So, as I went thru the menu, I decided to try their Chicken Clear Soup, Whole Prawn Dim Sum, then for mains, &#8220;Nasagurian Fried Rice&#8221; caught my eye and when I asked the waiter, he basically confirmed my already existing doubt that its a typo and that its supposed to be Nasi Goreng, the Malaysian fried rice&#8230; As I [&hellip;]
- [Cocoa Bean - Tuna Nicoise and Fish Pie](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/05/08/cocoa-bean-tuna-nicoise-and-fish-pie/): Back at Cocoa Bean Cafe at Kazhakuttom again after a while for lunch&#8230; This time, felt like trying another of their salads and the name Tuna Nicoise caught my eye 🙂 The salad consisted of pieces of what felt like canned tuna with quite a handful of lettuce, bell pepper, olives dressed with some vinaigrette and seasoned with salt and pepper and then topped with a yogurt based sauce and a fried egg&#8230; The total quantity of this is like 3-4 tablespoons max, just enough to enjoy the taste as with all their dishes&#8230; Then from the main course menu, having [&hellip;]
- [Parambriym - A forgotten Biriyani](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/05/06/parambriym-a-forgotten-biriyani/): Yesterday, I visited the Parambriym restaurant near Technopark, Trivandrum&#8230; This is my second visit to the place that serves a menu containing mostly Chettinad dishes&#8230; Back when I went there for the first time, I found the space to be incredibly clean and spotless&#8230; The decor is quite beautiful btw, with sketches on the walls as you can see from the pics above&#8230; It was newly opened back then and its been a couple of months and I must say that I am happy to see that the place looks exactly like how it was when it opened&#8230; Spotlessly clean and [&hellip;]
- [First Visit to Oriental Spice](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/05/04/first-visit-to-oriental-spice/): After visiting All Spice, my next visit to Kuravankonam area included me visiting this restaurant owned by the same Supreme Baker&#8217;s group called Oriental Spice&#8230; One of my good friends recommended this place to me knowing how I like the Chinese cuisine&#8230; The place is at the floor right above All Spice and unlike All Spice, the Oriental Spice is a fine dining restaurant that looks beautiful&#8230; And of-course, &#8220;fine dining&#8221; implies an above average budget level&#8230; Even though the friend mentioned only Chinese, turns out the menu has Thai and Malay food as well&#8230; Since its my first visit, I thought [&hellip;]
- [Cocoa Bean - Unique Drumsticks](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/05/01/cocoa-bean-unique-drumsticks/): This is from one of my previous visits that I forgot to mention before and got reminded of it as I found the pic of the dish that really surprised me, just now in my phone&#8230; And the Cocoa Bean Cafe calls this dish as &#8220;Chicken Drumsticks&#8221;&#8230; Why this dish deserves a special dedicated mention here can be seen in the pic below: This is completely unlike what one would expect with the name &#8220;Chicken Drumsticks&#8221; because practically, everywhere when a menu says that name, it usually means the leg pieces of chicken but here its a minced meat sort of [&hellip;]
- [Cocoa Bean - Pot Pie, Meat Balls and Pizza](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/04/30/cocoa-bean-pot-pie-meat-balls-and-pizza/): Went to the Cocoa Bean Cafe in Kazhakuttom again after quite some time&#8230; As I was handed the menu, the waiter informed me that they have two specials &#8211; Mexican Chicken Meatballs and Chicken Pot Pie&#8230; So, decided to try them out: The Mexican Chicken Meatballs came first as its a starter: The meatballs has a bit of cheese at the center and its served with a kind of tartar sauce (inside the tomato) and the white coloured sauce on the meatballs is their cream sauce&#8230; There is a slight sweetness to the meatball, which I liked and the meatball tasted [&hellip;]
- [First Visit to All Spice](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/04/28/first-visit-to-all-spice/): I visited All Spice restaurant in Trivandrum which is owned by the same team who owns Supreme Bakers some time ago after hearing good reviews about it from a couple of colleagues/friends&#8230; Also I had visited All Spice at Kollam once when I went there to attend an event regarding a movie I worked in&#8230; The place basically reminded me of my old office cafeteria as it has that same look and feel to it, except for the part where in the office cafeteria it was a self-service system whereas here there are waiters to help you get your food&#8230; Basically I [&hellip;]
- [Regarding Cocoa Bean](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/04/27/regarding-cocoa-bean/): A couple of months ago was when I discovered the Cocoa Bean Cafe in Kazhakuttom&#8230; I first thought of it to be just another coffee shop and basically stayed away since I am not really a Coffee enthusiast&#8230; However, in the EAT community, I began to see some posts by people who went there and it peaked my interest&#8230; Although it calls itself a cafe and looks like one, it certainly is not just that&#8230; But rather its an Italian fine dining restaurant and that was completely unexpected at Kazhakuttom&#8230; The menu had a good collection of classic italian dishes that [&hellip;]
- [Hotel Ginger - Typical Chinese meal with a Fish Surprise](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/03/17/hotel-ginger-typical-chinese-meal-with-a-fish-surprise/): The Hotel Ginger, near Technopark Trivandrum, is a place I typically go whenever I go out to eat most of the times&#8230; The reason being that the place serves fresh incredibly healthy food with absolutely no grease whatsoever&#8230; How I can tell is that if I eat with my hands (which I rarely do these days unless I am eating at home), the food from Ginger is the only one where once you eat and then just rinse your hands with water, you won&#8217;t have that coating of oil/grease on your fingers&#8230; This won&#8217;t be case if the food has any of [&hellip;]
- [Villa Maya Visit with my Parents](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/02/25/repost-villa-maya-visit-with-my-parents/): Went to Villa Maya in Trivandrum with my parents&#8230; I must say eating there is an experience to enjoy&#8230; I heard that the place was voted the best restaurant in India some time back&#8230; Clearly, its worth every positive review you can find about the place&#8230; One change I noticed since my last visit which was a while ago is that the portion sizes have gone up which kind of makes the middle-class guy in me a bit more satisfied since this is indeed the most expensive restaurant in the city&#8230; One main dish is enough to fill you now&#8230; Nighttime [&hellip;]
- [Meals at Ginger](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/02/10/repost-meals-at-ginger/): Today went to the Hotel Ginger&#8217;s (near Technopark, Trivandrum) restaurant&#8230; I usually have their soups and Chinese stuff like fried rice, noodles, etc, which are awesome but today I decided to have a change and had their &#8220;Fish Thali&#8221;&#8230; The Thali came as shown in the above pic, with some boiled rice, the daal, sambar, cucumber pachadi, coconut chutney, spicy ginger curry, rasam, sauteed cabbage, a mixed vegetable dry curry, curd, papadam and ofcourse the fish curry which is the star of the show here 🙂 For dessert you get a payasam and a banana&#8230; The restaurant is run by a [&hellip;]
- [Azad Star: Kothu Porotta, Butter Chicken And Cold Coffee](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/07/23/azad-star-kothu-porotta-butter-chicken-and-cold-coffee/): Today I was back at Mall of Travancore and I felt like visiting the Azad Star restaurant here for lunch again&#8230; As I said in my previous post about this place, me and my parents have been enjoying the food at their original location for many years&#8230; So, one of my favourites from the place has been their Kothu Porotta that too the Chicken Kothu Porotta and so this time I thought of having the same as it has been a long time since I had the same and got reminded of the same as well&#8230; So, perfect opportunity indeed, rt?? [&hellip;]
- [Bikash Babu Sweets - Chole Bhature](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/07/18/bikash-babu-sweets-chole-bhature/): It has been a while since Bikash Babu Sweets opened and pretty much took over the Sweets scene in Trivandrum&#8230; However, it was rare that I got to goto the place since its quite far from where I live&#8230; But thankfully, they recently opened up a branch near Kazhakuttom and started being available for home deliveries thru Swiggy&#8230; Also, because of the timing when I usually end up in the Trivandrum city area whenever I end up going that side, I could never try any of the savoury meal options from the menu as they were all available only in the [&hellip;]
- [Azad Star: Chilly Garlic Seafood Fried Rice And Fish Chilli](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/07/09/azad-star-chilly-garlic-seafood-fried-rice-and-fish-chilli/): Today I was back at Mall of Travancore and I had skipped breakfast today having woken up late and so, as you can imagine I was quite hungry&#8230; So, I thought I&#8217;ll have a brunch from the Azad Star restaurant as I enjoyed the food I had last time and did the same&#8230; Last time when I was here, I did notice some interesting &#8220;Chinese&#8221; options and so, this time I decided to go ahead and try something from that&#8230; So, among the available options, I went for what they call as their Chilly Garlic Seafood Fried Rice and also their [&hellip;]
- [Azad Star - First Visit](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/06/20/azad-star-first-visit/): Azad Hotel is one of the oldest in Trivandrum which is said to have started before the Indian Independence and have expanded to multiple restaurants over the years&#8230; They are famous for being the exponents of Travancore Cuisine and have been one of the regular places for both me and my parents especially during my school and college days&#8230; The frequency of visits have reduced ever since we moved to our current home in Kazhakuttom but we do still go for their delicacies once in a while&#8230; When I visited the Mall of Travancore for the first time, I had noticed [&hellip;]
- [Kaffeehaus: Joghurtgetränk And Seafood Risotto](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/06/17/kaffeehaus-joghurtgetrank-and-seafood-risotto/): It has been a long time since I visited Kaffeehaus and it has been due to a change in the nature of my job which reduced my travels to the city especially in the areas nearby to the place&#8230; This time I ended up happening to be nearby for a system upgrade for my studio and once I was done with the same, I saw an status post informing me about starting of a new item in the menu namely Risotto&#8230; So, I thought what better opportunity to try than then?? 🙂 So, I headed over there and because of the [&hellip;]
- [Noodle Seeking @ Mall of Travancore](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/06/17/noodle-seeking-mall-of-travancore/): Over the past few weeks, I have been hearing about the availability of some good noodle options in the cafeteria of the Mall of Travancore in Trivandrum&#8230; So, over the past few days, I got the chance to check them out and this post is about the same&#8230; 🙂 Basically there are two counters in the Cafeteria at MOT where you get the noodles options (not sure about the restaurant there as I haven&#8217;t visited it yet), namely the Noodle King and the Fujiyan Express&#8230; Both of them feature a variety of Asian dishes and I tried a couple of noodle [&hellip;]
- [The Muffin House - First Visit - Rainbow Cake And Classic Sharjah](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/06/16/the-muffin-house-first-visit-rainbow-cake-and-classic-sharjah/): Over the past few days, I have been seeing a number of people posting in social networks about a particular cake from The Muffin House&#8230; So, since I happened to visit the Mall of Travancore today, I decided to try the same if available&#8230; The place is located close to the Carnival Cinemas over there at the corner as you come up thru escalators near the McDonalds&#8230; Its a small shop with a few tables and what I felt to be quite unique and interesting how they use this toy train to bring the food and drinks to the customers as [&hellip;]
- [The Gourmet House: Paella](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/05/27/the-gourmet-house-paella/): Today, I was back at The Gourmet House and after having their Nasi Goreng last time, my plan was to have it again as a quick lunch for the day&#8230; But as I was browsing the menu, another dish caught my eye and that was the Paella&#8230; I have always wanted to have that since its been so long since I had it the last time and had been waiting to see it offered anywhere in Trivandrum&#8230; I asked the waiter about it and he informed me that it isn&#8217;t exactly a 100%Spanish Paella but rather a fusion where they use [&hellip;]
- [Supreme All Spice: Falooda](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/05/14/supreme-all-spice-falooda/): Today I went to the Supreme Bakery at Kuravankonam, Trivandrum and being a hot summer day, I decided to climb upstairs to Supreme All Spice restaurant to have something to drink&#8230; As the waiter handed me the menu, I noticed a new Summer Specials menu and it included a Falooda and that peaked my interest especially since I was feeling a craving for the same for quite some time&#8230; So, the following pics show the Falooda that I got&#8230; 🙂 For those who may be unaware, the Falooda is a combination of the Persian Faloodeh and the British Knickerbocker Glory, that [&hellip;]
- [Imperial Kitchen - Kayal Soup And Pizza A La People](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/05/07/imperial-kitchen-kayal-soup-and-pizza-a-la-people/): I was back at Imperial Kitchen again cause I happened to visit the area due to some shopping from Style Plus courtesy de mamá and I dropped in for lunch here&#8230; I had been watching few of the videos from Thrillist&#8217;s &#8220;Really Dough?&#8221; series since yesterday and so was really craving for a freshly baked artisan pizza and the fact that I loved the pizza that I had from here last time ended up being the reason why I ended up here as this was an opportunity to try another pizza from their menu and this post is about the same [&hellip;]
- [Monsoon Days - The Puttu Effect](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/04/17/monsoon-days-the-puttu-effect/): During one of my first couple of visits (check it out here), I was informed that they were going to start serving Puttu using a special rice flour meant for the same that they procure from Northern Kerala&#8230; After a while when I got the chance to visit the place again, I found out that they have started serving Puttu and includes stuffed Puttu options as well&#8230; So, over two recent visits, I tried two of the Stuffed Puttu options namely Prawns Stuffed Puttu as well as the Chicken Stuffed Puttu&#8230; They also have a Beef Stuffed Puttu, but I didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]
- [The Gourmet House - First Visit](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/04/10/the-gourmet-house-first-visit/): I have been hearing about The Gourmet House for quite some time by now including thru friends who have been there, but unfortunately I never got the chance to check it out  myself until now&#8230; The place located is located at Pattom just as you turn from the main junction toward Marappaalam&#8230; As always I dropped by for lunch and even though at the time I was the only customer they had, very soon a few more tables became occupies&#8230; 🙂 The place indeed looked cozy although not sure about the industrial vent pipes being visible like that as I felt [&hellip;]
- [Caffe Primo - First Visit](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/04/07/cafe-primo-first-visit/): I guess the more perceptive of readers may have noticed that its been a while since I posted anything&#8230; Well, basically I had been a bit too busy with work and also I had to redo the website by self hosting it rather than wordpress.com that I had been using for this website&#8230; So, basically ended up rebuilding the site using wordpress.org api and hosting shifted to my own little server thereby freeing me from the restrictions at wordpress.com and able to enjoy full flexibility&#8230; Anyways, long story short, the new site is up and running now and you are indeed [&hellip;]
- [Kolamass Kitchen - Baked Cheesecake And Naadan Kozhi Curry With Kutti Dosa](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/03/24/kolamass-kitchen-baked-cheesecake-and-naadan-kozhi-curry-with-kutti-dosa/): Kolamass Kitchen is owned by Priya Kolassery, who is a homechef in Trivandrum who has been becoming increasingly popular these days for her food&#8230; I myself have tried a couple of items before but ended up not being able to take good enough photos of them to be able to write a review here&#8230; So, this time, here we are&#8230; Personally I am one who loves Cheesecakes and among them, I prefer Baked Cheesecakes over Non-Baked ones&#8230; Sadly Baked Cheesecake options are quite rare to find in Trivandrum as most places who do sell them end up selling Non-Baked versions&#8230; So, [&hellip;]
- [The Tower of TBO :)](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/03/05/the-tower-of-tbo/): I have been hearing quite a lot about the Ghost burger from The Brickhouse Oven cafe near Technopark, Trivandrum&#8230; To be frank, I got a bit scared at how it looked in the photos that saw people post in facebook and hence was avoiding it cause I travel alone most of the time and hence thought it would be too much for me to eat and I really hate wasting food&#8230; So, recently I went back to the Brickhouse Oven after a long time and since the manager happened to be there, who knows me, requested that I try and let [&hellip;]
- [Monsoon Days - Meal Time !!!](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/01/18/monsoon-days-meal-time/): A few days ago, I was informed by the owner of the Monsoon Days restaurant about their plans to finally start Meals options after considering customer feedbacks, including my own feedback suggesting the same a while ago cause being a Malayali, it didn&#8217;t make sense to me that they have such awesome Fish Curry options but no Kerala style rice/meals option to go with them&#8230; Finally, they have started and I got the opportunity to try it&#8230; They call it as their Thali Meals options and there are two variants priced according to the content&#8230; One variant is where you get [&hellip;]
- [Hotel Ginger - A Simple Meal after a Long Time](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/01/09/hotel-ginger-a-simple-meal-after-a-long-time/): It has been months since my last visit to Hotel Ginger due to various reasons&#8230; So, today I got the chance to visit the place for a meeting and I thought since I&#8217;m already there, might as well have lunch&#8230; The place seemed to be recently renovated&#8230; That old outdoor restaurant they had near the parking lot seems to have been demolished&#8230; Inside the restaurant, its pretty much the same as my last visit but a change this time is that like the newer restaurants, the tables have been prearranged with cutlery and the recent trend of using coloured glass bottles [&hellip;]
- [Fine Dine - Some more :)](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/12/19/fine-dine-some-more/): It has been a while since my last visit to the Fine Dine restaurant near Infosys, Trivandrum (behind Kunnil Hypermarket)&#8230; Not that I was avoiding the place, but rather my frequency going out to eat at restaurants reduced a bit because of being busy with work&#8230; Today on the other hand got the chance to do so and so decided to visit Fine Dine again&#8230; However, unlike my previous visit, I decided to try something other than what I have had before&#8230; At the same time, I heard that they have a new chef working there&#8230; But still the menu is [&hellip;]
- [Monsoon Days - First Impressions](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/12/01/monsoon-days-first-impressions/): During my last visit to the Slice of Spice restaurant in Kazhakuttom, I was informed by the owner there that they are starting a new restaurant nearby which is different from their usual spicy concept called Monsoon Days&#8230; It is located at the place where the Parambrym restaurant used to be located ie, along with the Elite Inn, opposite to the Technopark campus, near Kazhakuttom&#8230; I have been there a few times by now sampling some of their menu items and thought now would be the best time to write about what I have seen so far&#8230; Of-course there are a [&hellip;]
- [The Khunafa Girl - The First Khunafa](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/11/30/the-khunafa-girl-the-first-khunafa/): For the past few months, I have been seeing ads about this middle eastern desert called Khunafa from a bunch of home bakers here in Trivandrum&#8230; Based on what I had been hearing in the Facebook groups, it seemed like the one by &#8216;The Khunafa Girl&#8217; founded and operated by Afiya Thaha is considered the best&#8230; So, obviously I wanted to try it but by the time I ended up getting around to ordering it, I heard its no longer available&#8230; However, recently I saw an ad from them again and so contacted Afiya to confirm availability and finally placed an [&hellip;]
- [Eve's Coffee - Some More Indulgence](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/11/14/eves-coffee-some-more/): Eve’s Coffee has eventually become a regular spot for me to go and hangout&#8230; After I wrote my last review on the place, quite a number of changes have happened in their menu which includes a number of new additions to their drinks menu, some new cakes, introduction of a few sundaes and a sandwich menu as well&#8230; So, I thought its about time I wrote about atleast some of them, which I found myself liking over the times I have been there since&#8230; So, this post is basically that&#8230; First of all, I must congratulate the crew on maintaining the [&hellip;]
- [Fine Dine - Trying the Fish Curry Meals](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/11/12/fine-dine-trying-the-fish-curry-meals/): During my last visit the Fine Dine Restaurant, I noticed my neighbouring tables getting served the Fish Curry Meals and I felt it looked good&#8230; Even back during the Chefmaster days, I have never had their Kerala Meals because I have never been to the old place for lunch and all my visits with my parents have always been just for dinner&#8230; So, when I got the chance to visit the place recently, I decided to go for and try the Fish Curry Meals and along with it I wanted a dry fish dish and among the choices in the menu, [&hellip;]
- [Fine Dine - First Visit](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/11/02/fine-dine-first-visit/): Okay&#8230; so this one is special&#8230; The reason why its so special is because I have been searching for this food for more than 14 years&#8230; So, long story short, my friend recently informed me about this new place called Fine Dine which is not too far away from my place and also informed me that the owner was the chef at the old Chefmaster restaurant that used to exist 14 years ago near Trivandrum Medical College&#8230; That peaked my interest and got me hyper-excited because that old restaurant and the food there was my all time favourite place to eat [&hellip;]
- [Pinstove - Simple Veg Meals and A Few Extra by PinChef Namita](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/09/19/pinstove-simple-veg-meals-and-a-few-extra-by-pinchef-namita/): Today me and my mom decided to get lunch from Pinstove, since we both are recovering from a stomach infection and so home-cooked meal is a much safer option when compared to most restaurants&#8230; So, this time, I went for the PinChef Namita and chose her Simple Veg Meals&#8230; In addition to that we went for a few extra curries and a Payasam as well&#8230; This is the 3rd time I am ordering from the PinChef Namita as the past two experiences with her food has been great for us&#8230; This is primarily because of two reasons: Both me and my mom [&hellip;]
- [String Hopper - First Visit](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/08/11/string-hopper-first-visit/): Today, I was pleasantly surprised when I got contacted thru Facebook by a person who introduced himself as the owner of the new String Hopper restaurant which as he informed me is now open on a trial launch mode and the idea was basically to invite me over to check the place out and try some of the food and give them a feedback&#8230; I was anyway about to go out for an errand and so I accepted the invitation and dropped by at the place for my lunch&#8230; The place is located in the Akkulam-Ulloor bypass road but very close [&hellip;]
- [Eve's Coffee - Charcoal Latte and White Chocolate Brownie](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/08/10/eves-coffee-charcoal-latte-and-white-chocolate-brownie/): Its been a while since I last visited Eve&#8217;s Coffee and finally got the chance to visit since I was going thru the Pettah area and hence decided to drop by&#8230; In my previous post about this place, I had written about their Matcha and Red Velvet Lattes and there was one more that I wanted to try but couldn&#8217;t back then and that was the Charcoal Latte&#8230; So, this time, I took as an opportunity to try the same and so, tried the Charcoal Latte and to go with it, I took their White Chocolate Brownie as well&#8230; They came [&hellip;]
- [The Brickhouse Oven - Seafood Platter](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/08/04/the-brickhouse-oven-seafood-platter/): Back at The Brickhouse Oven again and this time, I tried their Seafood Platter, which is an item listed in their starters menu&#8230; According to their menu, its a platter consisting of Fish Fingers, Crumb Fried Squid (Calamari) and Crumb Fried Prawns as well&#8230; It arrived as shown in the pics below: 🙂 As can be seen quite a generous portion of the Squid along with some Prawns and the Fish Fingers and the whole thing served with some Mango-Jalapeno Mayo dip&#8230; Personally I felt this to be a sizeable portion and hence I didn&#8217;t go for any of their main [&hellip;]
- [Turf - Waffles](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/08/04/turf-waffles/): Last time, when I visited the Turf Cafe, as I was leaving, I noticed that they have Waffles in their menu&#8230; So, when I got the chance to visit the place again today, I decided to try it&#8230; According to the menu, they make Waffles with options of Bananas, Nutella, Whipped Cream and a Choice of Ice Cream as topping&#8230; The choices of Ice Cream available as mentioned by the waiter are Vanilla, Chocolate and Strawberry&#8230; So, I went for all the toppings and as for the Ice Cream choice, I chose the Strawberry Ice Cream&#8230; So, the whole thing came [&hellip;]
- [Turf - First Visit](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/07/09/turf-first-visit/): For the past week or so, I have been hearing of this new dutch inspired cafe that opened up near Technopark Phase 3, called Turf&#8230; A couple of my friends visited the place as well and gave me good feedback on the ambience as well as the food&#8230; So, finally I got the chance to visit the place and as usual, I dropped by for lunch&#8230; The interior of the cafe is designed quite well in my opinion with dutch memorabilia on the walls from brand plates to license plates, etc&#8230; The furniture chosen clearly feels retro and quite cozy, which [&hellip;]
- [Kuzhipaniyaram &amp; Idli Bowl](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/07/07/kuzhipaniyaram-idli-bowl/): Kuzhipaniyaram is something that my mom makes quite often at home&#8230; Its a lite and savoury version of the Unniyappam thats basically made by adding some chopped Shallots, Ginger, Curry Leaves and Green chillies to the usual Dosa batter but then cooked using the Appa-Kaarai that we use for making Unniyappams&#8230; The difference is that instead of deep frying in oil/ghee, we just brush on some oil to the cavities before pouring in the batter&#8230; Kuzhipaniyaram is typically eaten with Chutney and Sambar just like Idlies&#8230; Hence, its a common practice in my household to eat this just like we eat the [&hellip;]
- [Kaffeehaus - Spaghetti Napoli, Cordonbleu Schnitzel, White Chocolate Brownie](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/07/07/kaffeehaus-spaghetti-napoli-cordonbleu-schnitzel-white-chocolate-brownie/): Back at Kaffeehaus after quite a long time&#8230; This time I was there to try a couple of new items in their menu, namely what looked from the pics in facebook to be some sort of a Roulade made with Chicken and also a White Chocolate Brownie&#8230; I had never tried any of the Pasta options from here and so, thought of having the same and hence tried what they call as the Spaghetti Napoli, which is the litest among the options available&#8230; So, first lets talk about the pasta&#8230; The option I went for was the Spaghetti Napoli&#8230; According to [&hellip;]
- [Supreme All Spice - Murgh Makhani Pizza](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/06/17/supreme-all-spice-murgh-makhani-pizza/): A while ago, I was looking for a Chicago style deep dish pizza option in Trivandrum and on searching for in the foodie groups in facebook pretty much gave me Supreme All Spice is the only option in Trivandrum (if you know of any other place, pls let me know)&#8230; However, the same result from the groups was saying that the flavours are not as good as how you get in Chicago but it is a proper deep dish pizza&#8230; So, when I got the chance to visit All Spice, I decided to try their Pizza this time&#8230; There are only [&hellip;]
- [Healthy Mango Sorbet](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/06/15/healthy-mango-sorbet/): A while ago, I had posted this recipe of an Ice cream like Frozen dessert made with Bananas&#8230; Check&nbsp;Healthy Ice Cream Option&nbsp;if you haven&#8217;t seen the same 🙂 Now that this is the Mango season going on, I thought of trying the same idea but with Mangoes&#8230; Lucky for me, my parents brought in some delicious Ratnagiri Mangoes and hence I thought to try doing the same process but using the mangoes and the end result is as shown in the pics below 🙂 However, this time I have made one difference and its that I am making this as a [&hellip;]
- [Cafe Cocoa Bean - Chicken Cream Soup, BBQ Chicken, Italian Pizza And Walnut Brownie With Ice Cream](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/06/15/cafe-cocoa-bean-chicken-cream-soup-bbq-chicken-italian-pizza-walnut-brownie-with-ice-cream/): As those who regularly follow my posts would know, I had started a Pizza Trail series which is basically my search for the best Pizza in Trivandrum (as of now)&#8230; This post is the second one in the series and this time, after a long gap, I am back at Cafe Cocoa Bean which is very close to my home at Kazhakuttom&#8230; For those who are unaware, this is an Italian Cafe and Restaurant here in Kazhakuttom serving fine Italian delicacies at affordable price and I have extensively reviewed their food over the 1 year that I have known the place&#8230; [&hellip;]
- [Supreme Upper Crust - Pot Roast Chicken](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/06/11/supreme-upper-crust-pot-roast-chicken/): First of all, this was supposed to be the second post in my Pizza Trail series as Upper Crust is known as one of the best Italian restaurants in Trivandrum and hence definitely a strong candidate for Pizza Trail&#8230; However, to my utter disappointment, the manager informed me that they stopped doing pizzas due to issues with their equipment&#8230; However, instead of Pizzas, they have a few additions to their menu, in their platters section&#8230; So, I decided to try one of those anyways&#8230; So, among the new options, I chose their Pot Roast Chicken with Chateubriand Sauce as the main [&hellip;]
- [Imperial Kitchen - Imperial Special Pizza](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/06/10/imperial-kitchen-imperial-special-pizza/): Well, one of my friends suggested that instead of just going randomly to places and writing reviews, I bring a pattern into the process and so, hence here I am starting a series of reviews highlighting a particular food item&#8230; So, first up is the humble Pizza and hence this post marks the starting of the &#8220;Pizza Trail&#8221; posts&#8230; So, the idea is basically to visit the various places (while hopefully staying away from the chains) which serve Pizzas and try their signature Pizza options&#8230; Essentially hoping for this to be a journal of the best Pizzas in Trivandrum (for now)&#8230; [&hellip;]
- [Paul's Creamery - Chakka Maanga Thenga :)](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/05/20/pauls-creamery-chakka-maanga-thenga/): A few days ago, I saw this ad posted in Facebook by the owner of Paul&#8217;s Creamery: This is an ad announcing 3 new flavours of Ice Creams and the owner mentioned this as the summer special for this year&#8230; They are humorously named Chakka, Maanga and Thenga respectively&#8230; Basically they mean Jackfruit, Mango and Coconut respectively&#8230; Ofcourse, by Coconut, they mean Tender Coconut&#8230; So, when I finally got the chance to visit Paul&#8217;s Creamery, I just had to try them all and so basically made them into my lunch for the day 🙂 So, this is how they came: The [&hellip;]
- [Imperial Kitchen - Veg Meals, Fish Mango Curry, Tawa Grilled Fish &amp; Prawns](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/05/09/imperial-kitchen-veg-meals-fish-mango-curry-tawa-grilled-fish-prawns/): Over the past few days, I have been having this little craving to have the Kerala style meals with a variety of seafood options, I guess triggered by a recent review of a popular restaurant around Akkulam area known for seafood options which showed the Kerala style meals served with a variety of seafood options&#8230; I then talked to the reviewer whom I am familiar with and along with feed back from a few others I talked to, found that due to hygiene issues it is not a place that I can visit&#8230; So, I was searching for other options to [&hellip;]
- [Eve's Coffee - First Visit](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/05/02/eves-coffee-first-visit/): I got recommended by my friend today to check out this new coffee shop at Anayara, Trivandrum, called Eve&#8217;s Coffee as its something thats guaranteed to give an experience thats quite unique in the city&#8230; So, I contacted them thru their facebook page and understood that its a place serving a bunch of hot and cold beverages and along with that, they have a few snack options and thats it&#8230; So, trusting my friend&#8217;s recommendation I went ahead to the place anyways hoping to make lunch out of whats available there&#8230; The place was not hard to find as it was [&hellip;]
- [Paragon - First Visit](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/04/16/paragon-first-visit/): The Paragon is a very well known brand that features restaurants that specialise in Malabari Cuisine&#8230; So, being from Thalassery myself who have a fondness for Malabari food, the original Paragon restaurant at Kozhikode was a place I used to visit with my parents whenever we went to Kozhikode&#8230; The last time I visited a Paragon restaurant was when I went to Kochi a couple of years ago and visited their branch inside the Lulu Mall&#8230; I had heard that they were going to open up a branch here in Trivandrum and I was looking forward to it for quite sometime&#8230; [&hellip;]
- [Mughlai Kitchen - First Visit](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/04/15/mughlai-kitchen-first-visit/): It was a little while ago that I noticed when travelling that the space that was formerly occupied by the Parambriym restaurant near Kazhakuttom now has a new sign and its now called &#8220;Mughlai Kitchen&#8221;&#8230; I have been wanting to check the place out and finally I got the chance to do it&#8230; Turns this is a long overdue review as its been over a weeks since the actual visit&#8230; Thankfully, I have a habit for jotting down notes which I can refer to when writing my reviews 🙂 Regarding the decor, once I entered the restaurant, I realised that there [&hellip;]
- [Paul's Creamery - Waffles and Milkshake](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/04/15/pauls-creamery-waffles-and-milkshake/): A few days ago, I happened to see a feature by Radio Mirchi on Paul&#8217;s Creamery, the new and in Ice cream shop here in Trivandrum&#8230; In that feature, they showed a new item on the menu which was called Waffles with Ferrero Rocher Ice cream, Nutella and Honey&#8230; On the very next day, I ended up going out with my mom for some shopping and after lunch, decided to drop by for dessert and I got the chance to have this new item&#8230; This isn&#8217;t the first time I have been to Paul&#8217;s Creamery and I have always enjoyed their [&hellip;]
- [Kaffeehaus - Soup, Grilled Chicken and Crepes](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/04/11/kaffeehaus-soup-grilled-chicken-and-crepes/): Its been a while since my last visit to Kaffeehaus, the Swiss Cafe here in Trivandrum&#8230; I had heard for quite some time that they have introduced some new options in their menu and the owner had been inviting me to check them out for more than a month and it was now that I finally got to go back there and try the new options&#8230; From the menu, I found out that since my last visit, they have introduced new Coffee and Milkshake options, new Pasta options, even brought in some from their former Christmas special menu (like the Carpaccio) [&hellip;]
- [Supreme All Spice - Kebab Thali, Mango Lassi](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/04/05/supreme-all-spice-kebab-thali-mango-lassi/): Its after quite a while that I go back to the Supreme All Spice restaurant at Kuravankonam, Trivandrum&#8230; This time I was there for trying what they call as the Kebab Thali about which I read some reviews recently&#8230; So, got the opportunity to do the same this time and as a bonus, got to try their summer-time special which is the Mango Lassi&#8230; So, first, lets talk about the Kebab Thali&#8230; According to the menu, its a platter consisting of Tandoori Chicken, Chicken Tikka, Paneer Tikka, Tandoori Aloo, Laccha Paratha, Dal Makhni, Mint Chutney and Salad&#8230; It came on a [&hellip;]
- [Kings Restaurant - Fish Tikka, Prawns Biriyani, Monster Shake](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/03/23/kings-restaurant-fish-tikka-prawns-biriyani-monster-shake/): It was a friend of mine who recommended that I try the King&#8217;s Restaurant at Kuravankonam, Trivandrum&#8230; The restaurant claims to be a Pan-Asian Fusion restaurant and so, during my first visit, I tried some Chinese options and it was a disappointment for me personally&#8230; Thats when I got the recommendation to go back and try the Indian part of the their menu, especially their Tandoori options and their Biriyanis&#8230; Hence, I went back and this post is about my second visit&#8230; The menu here consists of Indian, Chinese and Arabic options and hence the &#8220;Pan-Asian&#8221; 🙂 They have two dining [&hellip;]
- [Ambrosia - New Kazhakuttom Outlet - First Visit](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/03/19/ambrosia-new-kazhakuttom-outlet-first-visit/): Ambrosia is a place thats very well known to pretty much everyone in Trivandrum&#8230; This is because its a bakehouse and pâtisserie thats been in Trivandrum for more than two decades and it was pretty much the very first &#8220;modern&#8221; bakery as in this was the place that introduced the people of Trivandrum to whats taken for granted in practically every bakery and fast food joints these days, ie, the Pizza and the Burger along with many others including Pies, various kinds of Pastries, Pasta and so on&#8230; Me and my parents have met the owners and what they told us [&hellip;]
- [Madras Tiffin Center - First Visit](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/03/14/madras-tiffin-center-first-visit/): I have been hearing quite a bit about the vegetarian restaurant named Madras Tiffin Center and even have been to their ice cream shop named Scoop Station quite a few times&#8230; However, it is now that I finally got the chance to try out the restaurant&#8230; From the pics below, it can be clearly seen that this restaurant has a bit of a modern look when compared to the usual Tamil style vegetarian places like the Aryas chains and its differently spelled variants 🙂 The menu is vegetarian multi-cuisine just like every other vegetarian restaurant in the city&#8230; Like I mentioned [&hellip;]
- [Foodyezz - First Visit - Enter The Bamboo Biriyani](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/02/13/foodyezz-first-visit-enter-the-bamboo-biriyani/): Foodyezz is a recently opened restaurant near Technopark Phase 3, near Kazhakuttom, Trivandrum&#8230; I first found it listed in Swap app but didn&#8217;t exactly understand where it was located until I saw it while passing by&#8230; So, on the next day, I dropped by for lunch&#8230; The location is the same space used by the old Big Way restaurant and then by the restaurant named Mappila Kitchen, ie, behind the Toyota used car showroom&#8230; Regarding in the interior, nothing seems to have changed except for the removal of a partition wall 🙂 However, the menu is completely different from the previous [&hellip;]
- [Entree - First Visit - Soup, Wings, Fish and a Mousse](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/02/02/entree-first-visit-soup-wings-fish-and-a-mousse/): Entree is a restaurant I have been hearing about for quite a while and this might might sound silly, but the only reason I stayed away from the place is because the pics in their Facebook page and the pics that others shared to me end up in me have a concern about whether or not the furniture could handle my weight and also I am not a fan of outdoor seating when it comes to restaurants, because in Trivandrum unless its rainy season, during lunch time there is this hot sun above and usually during dinner hours, based on previous [&hellip;]
- [Slice of Spice - 2 Soups, A Burger, A Biriyani, A Tikka and A Breast](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/01/25/slice-of-spice-2-soups-a-burger-a-biriyani-a-tikka-and-a-breast/): It has not been long since the Slice of Spice franchise opened up an outlet in Kazhakuttom, quite near to where I live&#8230; So, having liked the food from their outlet in the Trivandrum City, this new place has become a regular place for me and my parents&#8230; So, I thought of giving an account of some of the dishes that I tried from here, some of which I hadn&#8217;t tried before even from the City outlet&#8230; So, the place in Kazhakuttom is exactly at where the restaurant called Shalimaar used to be and they seem to have moved in to [&hellip;]
- [Cafe Mojo - First Visit - Soup and Sizzler](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/01/11/cafe-mojo-first-visit-soup-and-sizzler/): Today was a day I ended up going to Trivandrum City area and being a bit confused on where to go, I asked a friend of mine who recommended that I try visiting Cafe Mojo restaurant at Kuravankonam&#8230; So, I dropped by the place for lunch&#8230; It is my understanding that Cafe Mojo has been functioning for quite some time, but this is the first time I got the chance to visit and try their food&#8230; First off, the place looked nice&#8230; Incredibly clean and shiny, as if it was new&#8230; The menu appeared to consists of a good selection of [&hellip;]
- [Cake Craft Trivandrum - First Try](https://imperfectpost.com/2018/01/03/cake-craft-trivandrum-first-try/): It is a tradition at my home to get a Cake during Christmas / New Year every year&#8230; Not for any religious / celebratory purpose but rather because every single Bakery pulls out all the stops during that time and have available their best Cakes and special options that are otherwise not available during the rest of the year&#8230; So, its usually one cake that we get within the week from Christmas to New Year 🙂 So, this time, close to Christmas, we got a Plum Cake with Fondant Icing from our favourite bakery i.e. Santha Bakery but unfortunately it turned [&hellip;]
- [LYF C451 - Why???](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/12/30/lyf-c451-why/): Having the need to separate work and personal stuff, I felt the need to have a separate smart phone as an upgrade from my old backup phone, which is incompatible with the apps that we usually use these days like Whatsapp, Uber, etc&#8230; Thats when I heard of the LYF brand by Reliance Jio which is said to sell affordable yet powerful android based smart phones&#8230; So, having decided to use my Jio-Fi connected for it and as my work number, I went to the local Jio store and got the C451 model of LYF Smartphones&#8230; According to the specs, it [&hellip;]
- [Kaffeehaus - Christmas Special 2017](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/12/28/kaffeehaus-christmas-special-2017/): A couple of days ago, I saw the ad from the owner of the Swiss cafe named Kaffeehaus at Vazhuthacaud, Trivandrum, announcing their special Christmas Menu thats in place for the week from Christmas to New Year&#8230; This menu ended up peaking my interest and so I went over there to try it as my lunch of the day&#8230; 🙂 Once again, the decor looked exactly as new and one change from my last visit was that they added one more table in the room and thats exactly where I ended up seated 🙂 The Christmas Menu has both a Vegetarian [&hellip;]
- [Supreme Upper Crust - Two Visits](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/12/26/supreme-upper-crust-two-visits/): Over the couple of weeks around Dec 10-20th, I have had the chance to visit the Supreme Upper Crust restaurant at Kuravankonam, Trivandrum twice and had the opportunity to try some items that are quite unique and hence this post even though I have posted about this place twice earlier (previous one and the first one)&#8230; During the first of these two visits, I had their Seafood Chowder, the BBQ Chicken Burger and the Choco Lava Cake as dessert&#8230; During the second visit, since I liked the Seafood Chowder so much, I went for that as the starter again, but this [&hellip;]
- [Cherries &amp; Berries - First Visit](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/12/22/cherries-berries-first-visit/): As people who know me would know, I have been doing this food blogging thing only for less than a year and so its quite possible that there are places in Trivandrum where I should&#8217;ve been and written about long time ago&#8230; I feel this is one such example because Cherries &amp; Berries have existed for quite a while and I only got the chance to visit there and try their food today&#8230; This is mostly because I don&#8217;t go out on a regular basis and also because the place where I live is more than 15km from Trivandrum city and [&hellip;]
- [PinStove - Chapatti, American Cheese Omelette, Chicken Nuggets, Chicken Fried Rice, Chilly Chicken, Butter Chicken, Semiya Payasam](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/12/20/pinstove-chapatti-american-cheese-omelette-chicken-nuggets-chicken-fried-rice-chilly-chicken-butter-chicken-semiya-payasam/): After enjoying the incredibly good Pothichoru and Neymeen Curry last time, I decided to get dinner for my home thru PinStove from the PinChef Aishwarya Ajith based on how well I enjoyed her Neymeen (Seer Fish) curry&#8230; So, from her list, I went for a portion of Chapattis, Chicken Fried Rice, Boneless Chilly Chicken, Butter Chicken and Semiya Payasam&#8230; Then, two items caught my eye from her menu which were the Chicken Nuggets and what she called as the American Cheese Omelette&#8230; So, went for those too&#8230; As always everything came neatly packed and on time thanks to the exceptionally good [&hellip;]
- [Coco Bongo - Chicken Singapore Noodles, Bongo Chicken Burger, Sweet Corn Chicken Soup](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/12/19/coco-bongo-chicken-singapore-noodles-bongo-chicken-burger-sweet-corn-chicken-soup/): I had gone to Coco Bongo restaurant and tried their much hyped Biriyani about which I had mixed feelings about as mentioned in my previous post regarding that visit (Click here for it)&#8230; I went back to the restaurant Coco Bongo after being recommended by a friend of mine to try other options especially their burgers&#8230; So, this post is about that visit which happened almost a couple of weeks ago by now&#8230; The place looked incredibly clean and spotless as before and I reached there pretty much at the same time as before&#8230; A change was the menu card which [&hellip;]
- [PinStove - Pothichoru, Dal Kichadi, Neymeen Curry](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/12/18/pinstove-pothichoru-dal-kichadi-neymeen-curry/): Yesterday I ordered lunch from PinStove and instead of the usual PinChefs I go for, I wanted to try other options&#8230; So, basically I was set on wanting the Pothichoru and so on searching, I found that the PinChef Sherin Roshin has one which she called as Naatu Pothichoru&#8230; So went for that and since I got confused on whether it came with a fish curry or not based on the description, I searched for and found an option of Neymeen curry by PinChef Aishwarya Ajith&#8230; Along with the Neymeen curry, her Dal Kichadi caught my eye and got that as [&hellip;]
- [Hotel Lake Palace - Seafood Chowder, Crispy Vegetables, Mixed Fried Rice, Blueberry Cheesecake](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/12/14/hotel-lake-palace-seafood-chowder-crispy-vegetables-mixed-fried-rice-blueberry-cheesecake/): A few days ago, I had the opportunity to visit Hotel Lake Palace at Kadinamkulam (more or less Puthukurichy area &#8211; nearest landmark is the V-Tracks Theatre)&#8230; This is actually a 5-Star hotel that opened less than 2 years ago and the location is overlooking the Kadinamkulam Lake&#8230; Even though it has always seemed like the place is most popular for their Bar (rumour has it that initially there was just the bar and they upgraded to the 5-star hotel to be able to keep their Bar License, which was only available to 5-Star hotels as per the law enacted by [&hellip;]
- [The Brickhouse Oven - Monster Brickhouse Burger, Bbq Chicken Pizza and Iced Tea](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/12/06/the-brickhouse-oven-monster-brickhouse-burger-bbq-chicken-pizza-and-iced-tea/): Today I went back to the Brickhouse Oven and this was the second visit to the place&#8230; After posting my previous review on the place which was the first visit, I got recommendations to try their Burgers and Pizzas and so, since I was out on an errand today, I dropped by for lunch&#8230; Once again, I am amazed at the decor and got to see things that I missed last time as can be seen in the pics below 🙂 The owner greeted me just like before and informed me that they are about to get the Coffee machine, which [&hellip;]
- [The Brickhouse Oven - First Visit](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/12/05/the-brickhouse-oven-first-visit/): It was only a few days ago that I noticed this new place on the NH Bypass called &#8220;The Brickhouse Oven&#8221; as I was passing by and it did surprise me because these days, I get to know about any new restaurants that open in Trivandrum thanks to my membership to the various Trivandrum based foodie groups on Facebook&#8230; But not a word was seen on this one&#8230; Yet out of curiosity, decided to check it out and so, finally went there yesterday&#8230; First of all, I wasn&#8217;t sure if the place was yet open but turns out it was and [&hellip;]
- [Imperial Kitchen - North Indian Combo, Chilly Garlic Chicken Soup, Sizzling Chicken &amp; Cheese](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/11/30/imperial-kitchen-north-indian-combo-chilly-garlic-chicken-soup-sizzling-chicken-cheese/): I got the chance to visit the Imperial Kitchen restaurant twice over the last few days and so, I would make this a combined post&#8230; The first visit was the same time I checked out the Cafe Alchemy of theirs and the previous post is about the same&#8230; The second visit happened yesterday&#8230; I had mentioned in an earlier post that they have some combo options and had posted about one of the options called the Arabic Combo as well&#8230; So, this time, I went for their North Indian Combo&#8230; Then on the other visit to the place, I decided to [&hellip;]
- [Cafe Alchemy - First Visit](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/11/25/cafe-alchemy-first-visit/): I have been seeing ads of Cafe Alchemy by its owner ever since they opened along with Imperial Kitchen restaurant&#8230; Cafe Alchemy is owned by the same people who owns the Imperial Kitchen restaurant&#8230; So, today, I happened to go along that route and so thought of checking out some of their sweets which were the focus of the ads&#8230; I heard recently that they have now opened a separate big outlet of Cafe Alchemy but this one where I went to is the original small outlet attached to the Imperial Kitchen restaurant, in Keston Road, Trivandrum&#8230; I went there hoping [&hellip;]
- [Chefzi Grand - First Visit](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/11/24/chefzi-grand-first-visit/): For the past couple of weeks, I have been seeing some posts on a new restaurant that opened at Technovalley here in Trivandrum, close to the UST-Global and Infosys campuses&#8230; So, a couple of days ago, I got the chance to visit&#8230; The place looked ok as shown in the pics below&#8230; Pretty much a neat/clean space, hopefully not just the &#8220;new&#8221; shine 🙂 Anyways, I reached there pretty early and so found myself to be the only customer there&#8230; But within a few minutes of ordering, found the place almost packed&#8230; Once I sat down, they gave me what they [&hellip;]
- [Supreme Upper Crust - French Onion Soup, Caeser Salad, Mexicano Spicy Grilled Tiger Prawns, Baked Cheesecake, Blackcurrant Smoothie](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/11/20/supreme-upper-crust-french-onion-soup-caeser-salad-mexicano-spicy-grilled-tiger-prawns-baked-cheesecake-blackcurrant-smoothie/): It has been a long time since my first and only post on the Supreme Upper Crust restaurant/cafe was made after the very brief visit for a snack many months ago&#8230; However, I must confess that this particular instance is not the only visit to the place after that as I have been there once before quite recently, and it was an utter disappointment for me, which felt so bad that I didn&#8217;t even feel like writing about it here but ended up being quite vocal about it in their customer feedback card&#8230; Soon after that, one of my friends ended [&hellip;]
- [Oriental Spice - Lung Fung Soup, Dragon Roll, Tiger Prawns Chilly, Hot Chocolate Fudge](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/11/19/oriental-spice-lung-fung-soup-dragon-roll-tiger-prawns-chilly-hot-chocolate-fudge/): After being back from Kasargod, I was craving some Chinese and so headed straight to Oriental Spice restaurant at Kuravankonam, Trivandrum&#8230; The place is so far my favourite spot in Trivandrum for everything from the Orient&#8230; So, this time, went for their Lung Fung Soup, their Dragon Roll, on being suggested by the waiter, their Tiger Prawns in Singapore Chilly Sauce and then finally their Hot Chocolate Fudge Sundae for dessert&#8230; So, the first to arrive was the Lung Fung Soup&#8230; This is a pretty filling soup consisting of a somewhat thick and mildly spiced Chicken broth thats loaded with pieces [&hellip;]
- [Mughal Durbar @ Deira City - Neer Dosa, Kadala Curry, Mosambi Juice, Chicken Noodles, Chicken Masala](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/11/14/mughal-durbar-deira-city-neer-dosa-brown-lentils-curry-mosambi-juice-chicken-noodles-chicken-masala/): Today, I am at Kasargod and am staying at Deira City, a budget hotel/lodge here at Thayalangadi&#8230; The restaurant attached to the hotel is called Mugal Durbar&#8230; This is the 4th time I am being here and the name of the restaurant was different every time, even though the management and the staff have been the same 🙂 So, if you are heading there, just go by the Deira City name and look for the restaurant right next to it as shown in the pics below&#8230; The restaurant is a low budget one and so, nothing fancy as can be seen from [&hellip;]
- [Slice of Spice - Mushroom Chicken Soup, Al Ashrouf Triple X Breast and Rabri Falooda](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/11/14/slice-of-spice-mushroom-chicken-soup-al-ashrouf-triple-x-breast-and-rabri-falooda/): Went to Slice of Spice again&#8230;. This time with the hope of exploring their menu further&#8230; Over the past couple of times I have been having the leg piece of the grilled chicken and after seeing too many good reviews on their breast piece options, I wanted to try it&#8230; Also, last time, I noted that they have two more kinds of Faloodas in the menu and thought of trying the same, but unfortunately they were not available&#8230; So, this time, went for their Mushroom Chicken Soup, Al Ashrouf Triple X Breast and then their Rabri Falooda for dessert&#8230; The first to [&hellip;]
- [Square One Homemade Treats - Chicken Meals and Falooda](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/11/12/square-one-homemade-treats-chicken-meals-and-falooda/): I have been a regular visitor of this bakery called Square One Homemade Treats ever since I heard about it a few years ago&#8230; What makes this place unique is that unlike other bakeries, this place is run by a group of enterprising ladies in Trivandrum and everything they sell is made by them at home&#8230; This can be clearly seen in the taste of each item you get there as they all have this good homemade taste and feel to them&#8230; There is a distinct sub-cuisine that belongs to Kottayam based Christians in Kerala and you can see that in [&hellip;]
- [Hotel Annapoorna @ Kazhakuttom - Puri Bhaji with Vada](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/11/11/hotel-annapoorna-kazhakuttom-puri-bhaji-with-vada/): As I have mentioned before in a previous post, Hotel Annapoorna in Kazhakuttom is a vegetarian budget restaurant thats a good early breakfast option&#8230; This time, we had Puri Bhaji and Vada for breakfast&#8230; The Puris came with the classic Bhaji and the Vadas came with the two kinds of Chutneys, namely the Coconut chutney and Onion chutney&#8230; The Puris turned out to be quite soft and slightly fluffy (being packed and brought home it lost its crispiness), made with what felt like a really good quality wheat flour and fried in refined sunflower oil&#8230; The Bhaji is the dry kind [&hellip;]
- [Imperial Kitchen - Chilli Garlic Chicken Soup, Dragon Chicken, Jakarta Fried Rice, Sliced Chicken in Hot Garlic Sauce](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/11/08/imperial-kitchen-chilli-garlic-chicken-soup-dragon-chicken-jakarta-fried-rice-chicken-in-hot-garlic-sauce/): Went to Imperial Kitchen again with a friend/colleague&#8230; I went there expecting to try out another of their combos, but unfortunately it was not available this time&#8230; So, this time, decided to stick entirely in the Oriental menu, especially since I was in-charge of ordering&#8230; 🙂 So, as starter, went for their &#8220;Chilly Garlic Chicken Soup&#8221; and their &#8220;Dragon Chicken&#8221; starter&#8230; Then for mains, went for what they call as &#8220;Jakarta Fried Rice&#8221; and went for the &#8220;Sliced Chicken in Hot Garlic Sauce&#8221;&#8230; So, the soup was the first to arrive&#8230; The soup is called Chilli Garlic Soup and they have [&hellip;]
- [Slice of Spice - Healthy Herbal Chicken Soup, Mediterranean Heat, Sweet Surprise, Al-Ashrouf Chicken](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/11/07/slice-of-spice-healthy-chicken-soup-mediterranean-heat-sweet-surprise-al-ashrouf-chicken/): Got the chance to go back to Slice of Spice restaurant in Trivandrum today&#8230; This is my second visit to the place&#8230; It was a rainy day with some of the roads along the way looking like the Ganges and traffic difficult as routes were diverted due to fallen trees&#8230; In-spite of it, I found the place to be quite crowded but still, managed to get a seat&#8230; Last time I had made the mistake of ordering stuff that were clearly not in their wheelhouse&#8230; So, this time, I decided to stick to their specialties&#8230; Hence, went for what the waiter [&hellip;]
- [Kaffeehaus - Nudelsalat Mit Hühnchen, Raclette &amp; Jungfrau](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/11/03/kaffeehaus-nudelsalat-mit-huhnchen-raclette-jungfrau/): Went back to Kaffeehaus today for lunch, which is a Swiss Cafe that opened about a month ago here in Trivandrum&#8230; This is the visit after my last post about the place and I found the place to be decorated in the Halloween theme as they have a Halloween fest going on this week&#8230; This time, I chose the Nudelsalat Mit&nbsp;Hühnchen which is a Pasta salad with Chicken&#8230; Then for mains decided to try the Raclette, which is a swiss speciality dish with molten cheese and a set of toppings and then for dessert, took whats called Jungfrau which is basically [&hellip;]
- [Coco Bongo - First Visit - Biriyani](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/11/01/coco-bongo-first-visit-biriyani/): Yesterday, I got the chance to visit the restaurant Coco Bongo at Pattom, Trivandrum&#8230; I had been seeing a bunch of posts praising the Biriyani that they serve here and so since I happened to be nearby, stopped by for lunch 🙂 For those who may not be aware, the restaurant is located right next to the gate of St. Mary&#8217;s school and it above the Chicking outlet over there&#8230; Contrary to the way leading to the restaurant, I found the restaurant to be incredibly clean and shiny with a look that reminded me of a starred place&#8230; I was alone [&hellip;]
- [Healthy Ice Cream Option](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/10/28/healthy-ice-cream-option/): This is an idea that came to mind which I guess is inspired from both the Fruit Granita and the ever so known Sharjah Shake, which I happened to buy as take away and then accidentally left in the freezer overnight&#8230; 🙂 It was indeed a hunch based on those experiences, but ended up working like a charm&#8230; However, I must point out here that even though the idea came up in my mind, after googling a bit about it, I found out that this is not really an original recipe&#8230; It just happened to be a coincidence that I came [&hellip;]
- [Imperial Kitchen - The Arabic Combo](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/10/26/imperial-kitchen-the-arabic-combo/): Got a chance to visit the Imperial Kitchen restaurant as I ended up nearby for shopping&#8230; As an independent blogger with near to zero resources, it is always a challenge to write about the food here simply because for reasons that I cannot fathom, it is not a photography friendly environment, unless of-course you are into flash photography which I am not&#8230; 🙂 This is because the restaurant&#8217;s dining hall has minimal lighting and so its really impossible to get clear images of the food inside 🙂 Whats included here are the result of me enhancing them a bit and you [&hellip;]
- [Burger Lounge - First Visit](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/10/24/burger-lounge-first-visit/): Today I got the chance to visit the new branch of Burger Lounge at Chalakuzhy Road, Trivandrum&#8230; This is my first visit to Burger Lounge as I had never been to the original branch&#8230; The place is located towards the Pattom side of the Chalakuzhy road and its like the second building or so as you enter the road from the Pattom side&#8230; The place looks quite modern especially from the outside with the inside being like the inside of any other fast food chain&#8230; Personally speaking of-course, I felt like they could&#8217;ve gone for furniture that was a bit more [&hellip;]
- [Hotel Ginger - Chicken Cream Soup, Chicken Fried Rice, Butter Chicken, Kulfi](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/10/24/hotel-ginger-chicken-cream-soup-chicken-fried-rice-butter-chicken-kulfi/): A few days ago, I got the chance to visit the restaurant at Hotel Ginger near the Technopark campus near Kazhakuttom, Trivandrum&#8230; This was after more than a month since my last visit and unfortunately I have a bad news&#8230; They stopped doing their lunch and dinner buffets (which I wrote about in my last post on the place), but are open to doing the same to order&#8230; Hence, went for the ala carte menu and went for the classic Soup-Rice-Curry-Dessert combo by picking their Chicken Cream Soup, Chicken Fried Rice, Butter Chicken Masala and a portion of Kulfi for dessert&#8230; [&hellip;]
- [Old's Cool Bistro - First Visit](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/10/21/olds-cool-bistro-first-visit/): Visited the Old&#8217;s Cool Bistro today&#8230; I have been hearing about this place for quite some time thanks to one of my friends and thru some reviews in Facebook&#8230; Apparently the place is what used to be known as the Truffle&#8217;s Bistro&#8230; So, happened to go around Kuravankonam for some shopping and so got the chance to check the place out&#8230; First of all, I must confess that I never got the chance to go to Truffle&#8217;s Bistro and so I can&#8217;t make a comparison between how things used to be there to how things are over there&#8230; I have been [&hellip;]
- [Oriental Spice - Spicy Chicken Soup, Singapore Chilly Crab, Kway Teow, Kung Pao Chicken](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/10/20/oriental-spice-spicy-chicken-soup-singapore-chilly-crab-kway-teow-kung-pao-chicken/): Back at Supreme&#8217;s Oriental Spice restaurant, at Kuravankonam again after a while&#8230; Its been more than a month since I&#8217;ve been there and I did end up having a bit of craving for the Kung Pao Chicken&#8230; Other than that, I decided to go for what I haven&#8217;t had before from there&#8230; So, this time, I went for their Spicy Chicken Soup first&#8230; Then because of watching too many of Mark Wein&#8217;s videos recently, I wanted to try something that I haven&#8217;t had for years : The Crab&#8230; The reason for the gap is because I didn&#8217;t think it was worth [&hellip;]
- [Kerala Hotel - First Time - Pothichoru](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/10/18/kerala-hotel-first-time-pothichoru/): I happened to go out today with my parents for some shopping and along the way back we stopped at Kerala Hotel at Akkulam, within the NH bypass road (next to where the Toll gate used to be)&#8230; It was quite crowded plus my mom&#8217;s inability to handle the smell of fish prompted us to just get parcel and leave&#8230; So, got their Pothichoru parcel about which I had been hearing recently from the foodie groups in Facebook&#8230; The Kerala Hotel is a place that has quite a large number of positive reviews in these groups and so I really had [&hellip;]
- [Hotel Annapoorna @ Kazhakuttom - Early Breakfast Option](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/10/18/hotel-annapoorna-kazhakuttom-early-breakfast-option/): If you know me personally, you would know that I tend to dislike Idlis and prefer Dosas to it any day&#8230; However, over the past few months, an exception to that has been found as I find myself being able to enjoy the same from one place&#8230; This place is the not so known small eatery in Kazhakuttom, located opposite to the local bus stop, called Hotel Annapoorna&#8230; My dad started getting their Idlis and Vadas once in a while for breakfast when he goes for his morning walk as that is a place that gets open early in the morning [&hellip;]
- [Kaffeehaus - First Visits](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/10/13/kaffeehaus-first-visits/): Recently, I heard about this new Swiss coffee shop named Kaffeehaus that opened in Vazhuthacaud, Trivandrum from a friend of mine and since a Swiss place is a first in Trivandrum, I decided to check it out and went there with another friend of mine&#8230; That time ended up being a bad day because the place had just opened and they were still getting their act together with the staff just learning to do what they do and to make matters worse, there were staffing shortages with people out sick&#8230; So, long story short, things didn&#8217;t go as well as I [&hellip;]
- [The Cinnamon Route - First Visit](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/10/13/the-cinnamon-route-first-visit/): Tried visiting The Cinnamon Route at Kuravankonam, Trivandrum finally&#8230; Been wanting to try ever since I saw their ads regarding their thali options and more recently their biriyani options as well&#8230; I ended up reaching at around 12:30pm and pretty much found myself to be the only customer in the place (as can be seen from the empty dining room pics) that I wondered if the place is closed 🙂 But very soon got greeted by a waitress and so, I guess it turned out to be a fluke day 🙂 I was handed the lunch time meals menu and it [&hellip;]
- [Scoop Station - Litchi George and WTF Ferroro](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/10/11/scoop-station-litchi-george-and-wtf-ferroro/): Back at Scoop Station in Kowdiar Trivandrum after quite a while and this time I was there for lunch 🙂 So, had tried two scoops from their menu that I haven&#8217;t had in my previous visits&#8230; Btw, recently found out that my previous review on Scoop Station was shared by them in their Facebook page and let me express my thanks to the team at Scoop Station here for it&#8230; 🙂 So, among the choices in the menu, I first chose the one I couldn&#8217;t get in my previous visits namely what they call the Litchi George&#8230; Then since I decided [&hellip;]
- [All Spice - Royal Chicken Strips, Grilled Chicken Fillet in Mushroom Sauce and Rainbow Cupe](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/10/04/all-spice-royal-chicken-strips-grilled-chicken-fillet-in-mushroom-sauce-and-rainbow-cupe/): Visited Supreme All Spice restaurant in Trivandrum after a long time&#8230; The last time I was there, I could try some Indian items from their menu but this time I ended up being a bit early and so the waiter told me that they are not ready&#8230; Hence, this time went for the continental menu&#8230; As I was browsing thru the menu, I saw that they have fried chicken there and since it has been a very very long time since I&#8217;ve had fried chicken, I decide to take a portion of that as the starter for the day and so, [&hellip;]
- [Pothichoru Day 3](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/10/02/pothichoru-day-3/): My parents are out of town for the weekend leaving me and my aunt with my grandma&#8230; So, for today&#8217;s lunch, we decided to get food delivered and since meals is the preferred choice of the majority, being a democratic household, at least when my parents aren&#8217;t around ( 😛 ), we finally decided to go for Pothichoru&#8230; Based on my memory of trying the Non-Veg Pothichoru from PinChef Swapna Rakesh, I decided to contact her and ask for availability and finally placed the order&#8230; She even let me know what all were going to be included in the Pothichoru and [&hellip;]
- [Slice of Spice - First Visit - New Rottsy Grill](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/10/01/slice-of-spice-first-visit-new-rottsy-grill/): This is something that was overdue for quite a long time as I have been wanting to visit the Slice of Spice restaurant ever since they opened and I heard about it&#8230; The restaurant is located at the same location inside Anna&#8217;s Arcade near Spencer Junction where Pizza Corner used to be&#8230; Finally after a long wait I got the chance to visit the place for lunch&#8230; The exterior looks pretty much the same as how the place looked back when Pizza Corner used to be except for of course the signs&#8230; Clearly they are proud of their Al-Ashrouf grills&#8230; On [&hellip;]
- [Paul's Creamery - First Visit](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/09/29/pauls-creamery-first-visit/): Finally got the chance to visit the recently opened Paul&#8217;s Creamery, in Kowdiar, Trivandrum a few days ago&#8230; A cozy looking place indeed but found it almost completely packed with just one empty table which I could occupy 🙂 I have been hearing quite a hype about the place ever since they opened briefly for a private tasting event a couple of months ago&#8230; One of my friends were among those invited for it and so he kept on asking me to go and check it out since then&#8230; The place as can be seen from the external pic, does look [&hellip;]
- [Le Arabia - Fish Biriyani and Prawns Tawa Fry](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/09/29/le-arabia-fish-biriyani-and-prawns-tawa-fry/): The Le Arabia restaurant at Kazhakuttom is a place I have been visiting or ordering home delivery from once in a while ever since they opened and this is a place that pretty much rocked the food scene here in Kazhakuttom by introducing dishes from the Arab cuisine that was previously unheard of in the area&#8230; I mean, until they opened, the only option was the Shwarma&#8230; Now, thanks to them, we are enthusiasts of a lot more 🙂 Among the Non-Arab items in their menu, what I enjoy the most is their biriyani&#8230; They sell two kinds of biriyanis namely [&hellip;]
- [Cocoa Bean : Pollo Oliva and Shrimp Risotto](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/09/28/cocoa-bean-pollo-oliva-and-shrimp-risotto/): After quite a while I visited the Cafe Cocoa Bean in Kazhakuttom&#8230; As followers of my posts would know, it is one of my favourite places to dine in for Italian food here in Trivandrum&#8230; The staff greeted me just as usual and had me sit at the corner table&#8230; Once again I asked for specials and the waiter informed me of an item which is also in the menu called Pollo Oliva and when asked what it was, he responded by saying its basically chicken pieces stuffed with olive and served with a salad&#8230; So, ordered for that as the [&hellip;]
- [Hotel Highland - City Green : Veg Classic](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/09/19/hotel-highland-city-green-veg-classic/): If you ask which are my all time favourite spots to eat, then a name you&#8217;ll definitely hear from me is Hotel Highland, in Manjalikulam Road, Thampanoor, Trivandrum&#8230; For those who are unaware, Highland hotel has been around in Trivandrum for decades and back in the golden days when Malayalam film industry used to operate entirely in Trivandrum, the hotel has been a regular shooting spot for whenever there is a scene taking place in a hotel&#8230; One example I can give is that old famous movie called &#8220;August 1&#8221; which had quite a number of hotel based scenes and most [&hellip;]
- [Kunnil Marginfree Hyper Market: An Unexpected Twist](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/09/16/kunnil-marginfree-hyper-market-an-unexpected-shakes-place/): I have been a regular shopper at the Marginfree Hyper Market at Kunnil Heights in the NH47 bypass road in between the MGM school and the Infosys campus&#8230; I along with my parents have been regular visitors of the MRA bakery outlet inside the hypermarket as well, where we have had some unique Malabari items, which sadly becomes available very very rarely these days&#8230; These days especially we have been going there just to get the packets of &#8220;Karachi Cookies&#8221; and their mini-jalebis which are amazing&#8230; We have been having the juices from there as well, from what they call as [&hellip;]
- [Scoop Station - First Visits](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/09/03/scoop-station-first-visits/): Finally got the chance to try Scoop Station&#8230; However, on sharing the experience, a friend of mine kept insisting that its not a good option and hence tried a couple more times to be sure and thought of making a combined review&#8230; Personally I felt that that my friend was being unreasonable and I for one really did enjoy the ice cream options I had and hence I would urge you the reader to come to your own conclusions&#8230; 🙂 Scoop Station is a tiny place right next to and run by the good folks at Madras Tiffin Center in Kowdiar, [&hellip;]
- [Pothichoru Day Again](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/08/25/pothichoru-day-again/): Its been a while I last had ordered Pothichoru thru PinStove (review posted back then) and yesterday my craving for it reached the peak and so opened up PinStove&#8230; Last time I had got the vegetarian Pothichoru from the PinChef Athira J and this time I saw that she has a non-veg option as well&#8230; So, went for it along with two other items that peaked mine and my mom&#8217;s interest namely the Masala Egg Burji and what they call Thenga Sharkara Ada&#8230; So, this time the Pothichoru came with a portion of Rice, Beans thoran, Vazhakkoombu (banana-blossom) thoran, Kovakka (Ivy [&hellip;]
- [Imperial Kitchen : Thai Fried Fish and Mee Goreng](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/08/23/imperial-kitchen-thai-fried-fish-and-mee-goreng/): Back to further exploring the menu of Imperial Kitchen&#8230; This time found two interesting dishes in the menu&#8230; Its the Thai Fried Fish and Mee Goreng&#8230; The Thai Fried Fish is basically a tempura batter fried whole fish, which they let you select from their display and the price charged is based on the weight of the fish chosen&#8230; I basically went for the smallest one they had among the choices of Snapper, Basa and Pomfret&#8230; This batter fried fish is then sautéed in a spicy and sweet garlic sauce and garnished with some spring onion&#8230; The fish turned out to [&hellip;]
- [Imperial Kitchen : Kaanthari Meen and Pad Thai](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/08/16/imperial-kitchen-kaanthari-meen-and-pad-thai/): Back at Imperial Kitchen once again and this time I am all alone for lunch 🙂 Went thru the menu (they even introduced their new WiFi digital menu to me, although I couldn&#8217;t see the point, but anyways) and chose two items that I felt like trying namely &#8211; Kaanthari Meen and Pad Thai&#8230; The Kaanthari Meen is a starter and they describe it as fish marinated in coconut milk and Bird&#8217;s eye chillies (Kaanthari Mulaku) and then roasted to form the starter&#8230; From the word roast, I expected something that was dry or pan grilled&#8230; However, what came was completely [&hellip;]
- [Oriental Spice - Chicken Satey, Huinan Soup and Thai Spicy Fried Rice](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/08/07/oriental-spice-chicken-satey-huinan-soup-and-thai-spicy-fried-rice/): Back at Oriental Spice again and some more exploration of their menu&#8230; During my last visit to the place I noticed something in their menu that peaked my interest&#8230; It was the Chicken Satay&#8230; For those who might not be aware, Chicken Satay is to Malay cuisine what Pad Thai is to Thai cuisine i.e. both can be considered as ambassadors to their respective cuisines as they are the most popular and most widely recognised as of their respective cuisines&#8230; But unfortunately the waiter informed me that their grill is out of order and so its not available for the day&#8230; [&hellip;]
- [Cafe Cocoa Bean: Burger, Sizzler and An Entry into Chinese](https://imperfectpost.com/2017/08/01/cafe-cocoa-bean-burger-sizzler-and-an-entry-into-chinese/): I&#8217;m back at Cafe Cocoa Bean again and this time for lunch after attending my music class which I started going for again recently&#8230; One of my friends recommended that I try their burgers and sizzlers and so, basically went there having decided to do just that&#8230; So, ordered a Classic Fish Burger, a Chicken Steak Sizzler and having been familiar with their portion sizes, I asked the waiter to list the specials for the day and got informed that the special for the day is called a Grilled Chilly Chicken, which shocked me quite a bit as thats not something [&hellip;]
- [Happy Diwali 2020](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/11/14/happy-diwali-2020/): Wishing Everyone a Happy and Safe Diwali filled wish Lights and Colours of Happiness and Prosperity in the days to come&#8230; With Best Regards, Team TIP
- [A Puddin' Time By Puddin' Hut](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/11/08/a-puddin-time-by-puddin-hut/): It was just yesterday that I came across a post by a friend of mine that showed a couple of puddings by a Puddin&#8217; Hut&#8230; Tender Coconut pudding was the highlight of that post and that peaked my interest especially since thats my mom&#8217;s favourite and she had expressed a craving for the same recently&#8230; So, I contacted Puddin&#8217; Hut and came to know that its basically a homechef operation and thankfully, delivery was available to my location&#8230; Also, they have two puddings in their menu, which is a Tender Coconut pudding which they call as the &#8220;Creamy Coconut Pudding&#8221; and [&hellip;]
- [Sijis Pizza Street: First Impressions](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/11/01/sijis-pizza-street-first-impressions/): I have been hearing about Sijis Pizza Street for some time from my friends who have nothing less than high praises for their Pizzas&#8230; But sadly, I never got around to try it because of the place being a bit far away from me and outside the range of any of the food delivery apps&#8230; By the time I was getting around to making plans to visit, sadly, the corona pandemic started and well, you know the rest&#8230; However, they did manage to open up a branch in Kazhakuttom in the middle of all the chaos, thats located practically at walking [&hellip;]
- [BSix Inn: The Underrated Chicken Spring Roll](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/10/31/bsix-inn-the-underrated-chicken-spring-roll/): Spring Rolls have always been one of my favourite things to eat and it is one of those items which I always order at-least as a starter whenever I see it in a menu&#8230; This post is about a surprising Spring Roll option that I recently discovered in Kazhakuttom and its from BSix Inn&#8230; The restaurant there used to be a regular spot for me and my parents back when they started years ago but for some reason we had pretty much forgotten about it until they started appearing in apps like Swiggy and I thought of trying their food again&#8230; [&hellip;]
- [Sree Vinayaka : Vazhayila Pothichoru and Fish Fry](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/10/22/sree-vinayaka-vazhayila-pothichoru-and-fish-fry/): Its time for another Pothichoru day and this time, trying from another new place I haven&#8217;t tried before&#8230; For a past few weeks, I have been noticing a new place come up in the Swiggy app called Sree Vinayaka located near Technopark as per the app&#8230; Obviously, my pure vegetarian mom got a bit excited believing that it might be a new vegetarian place especially since vegetarian places serving good tasting food is a rare sight sadly&#8230; However, when we checked, all that hope went up in flames when the recommended special for the day shown was &#8220;Fish Fry&#8221; lol 😀 [&hellip;]
- [Caffe Primo: Lemon Butter Garlic Prawns with Broccoli Rice and English Vegetables](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/10/11/caffe-primo-lemon-butter-garlic-prawns-with-broccoli-rice-and-english-vegetables/): It has been a while since I had food from Caffe Primo&#8230; Both me and my parents have always enjoyed their sliders and pizza ever since we tried them back when they opened&#8230; This time however, my parents in their infinite wisdom, decided to surprise me by getting me this new item from their continental menu&#8230; Apparently its the first time we even saw a continental section in their menu and those who know me personally are aware of the fact that if a restaurant has a continental section in their menu, I tend to order from it most of the [&hellip;]
- [A Breakfast Spread From Spicehaus](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/10/07/a-breakfast-spread-from-spicehaus/): Today morning we felt a bit lazier than usual and so decided to order in our breakfast&#8230; Having enjoyed food from the lunch menu of Spicehaus very much, I had been meaning to try the breakfast options from there and so this felt like the perfect opportunity for the same&#8230; Mom was craving for Idiyappam today and so was relieved to see that its available along with her favourite Kadala Curry as well&#8230; So, we chose that along with a set of Poori Masala for my dad and then some Appam and Egg Roast for myself&#8230; Since I was not sure [&hellip;]
- [Return Of The Apple Pie Thru Madison Street](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/09/19/return-of-the-apple-pie-thru-madison-street/): It was a few weeks ago that I saw a post by Sanda Doina Toma who is a friend of mine, saying that she started working as a home-baker making Apple Pies and in a couple of days, came to know that the Madison Street restaurant has partnered with her and now, she makes and supplies the Apple Pies exclusively for them and the restaurant can be contacted for home delivery orders as well&#8230; Seeing the pics posted by them in social networks, I got reminded of the Apple Pie I had from US, but my area was a Covid containment [&hellip;]
- [Meenootta or Meen Ootta - Meals With Fish](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/09/05/meenootta-or-meen-ootta-meals-with-fish/): Freedom is something that needs to be experienced !!! I am very happy that after such a long time, I got the chance to go and have food from my usual favourite spot. Unfortunately, I reached there near their closing time and so could not take photo of the place. Today the review is about the place called &#8220;Meenootta&#8221; or &#8220;Meen Ootta&#8221;. &#8220;Meen&#8221; means fish in both Malayalam and Kannada and &#8220;Ootta&#8221; means meals. Its a place where we can get cool fish dishes and I think thats the reason behind the name. Since this is the closest restaurant from my [&hellip;]
- [Spicehaus - Onam Sadya](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/08/31/spicehaus-onam-sadya/): Its finally Onam today and ofcourse thanks to COVID-19, #CorOnam and #VeettilirunnOnam have been trending for the past couple of weeks or so&#8230; Having loved the Pothichoru by Spicehaus very much, when I heard that they were taking orders for the home delivery of their Onam special Sadya, I decided to convince my mom to take a much deserved break and placed the order for the three of us&#8230; The food came neatly packed in cardboard boxes accompanied by the Banana Leaves to serve and eat the Sadya, as can be seen in the pics below&#8230; For those who are not [&hellip;]
- [Kolamass Kitchen - Tender Coconut Pudding Cake](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/08/31/kolamass-kitchen-tender-coconut-pudding-cake/): Time for another Cake Day&#8230; The occasion?? Well, its the 41st wedding anniversary of my parents&#8230; Usually, they celebrate by going out for dinner but this time, thanks to COVID-19, that was not possible and hence we decided to go for a cake for the first time for it&#8230; So, obviously being the foodie in the family, I was tasked with finding the perfect cake and thats when I noticed that Kolamass Kitchen had recently posted photos of some new cakes and there were a couple of options made with Tender Coconut as the ingredient which is a favourite of my [&hellip;]
- [Spicehaus - Pothichoru](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/08/25/spicehaus-pothichoru/): Recently, I came to know that Kaffeehaus, the ever popular Swiss cafe at Vazhuthacaud has started a new brand called Spicehaus and have started doing Kerala cuisine under it and is available for delivery thru the popular food delivery app services&#8230; Of-course, I couldn&#8217;t try any of it back then cause until very recently, my area was a full on containment zone and so food delivery was not possible&#8230; Once food delivery started, a few days later, the owner of the place contacted me informing me that they are starting to do Pothichoru (the quintessential Kerala style Banana Leaf wrapped Meals [&hellip;]
- [Chicken Fried Rice From Sai's](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/08/24/chicken-fried-rice-from-sais/): Times are changing and so would the climate. The sun is back after the rains but no significant change has occurred to my appetite. Of course, that has to be case cause otherwise I can&#8217;t be called &#8220;human&#8221; and that can&#8217;t be tolerated !!! So, after some time, I though of ordering something for &#8220;Sai&#8217;s&#8221;. It is lunch time and so how about a trying a &#8220;Chicken Fried Rice&#8221;?? &#8211; so I thought. Without any further thoughts, I quickly went to Swiggy and opened their profile and saw the &#8220;Chicken Fried Rice with Watermelon juice&#8221; combo for Rs. 160 which after [&hellip;]
- [Paneer Tomato Rice](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/08/19/paneer-tomato-rice/): Tomato Rice is something my mom makes every time for me whenever we have leftover white rice to use&#8230; This time we had a cup of cooked Basmati rice left over and she had this idea of adding some paneer to her tomato rice since we had some extra paneer after making a curry out of it&#8230; However, since Paneer is involved the recipe got tweaked a bit too as in this is not the usual Tomato Rice or Thakkali Saadam that she usually makes&#8230; Instead the following pic shows the end result&#8230; Heres the recipe: Recipe Ingredients For the Rice: [&hellip;]
- [The Trend Of Bashing Anything Vegetarian - Why???](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/08/18/the-trend-of-bashing-anything-vegetarian-why/): Recently, I have been observing a trend which I find to be quite disturbing&#8230; It is this practice of bashing (verbally of-course) anything vegetarian as not good enough to be considered as food&#8230; Outside India, this is something that has been happening for quite a long time and even many of the so called &#8220;culinary giants&#8221; have been known to do that for a long time&#8230; What surprises me is that nowadays, I see an increasing number of Indian food vloggers start doing the same especially regarding Vegetarian food from the Indian cuisine itself&#8230; Why??? The fact remains that the Vegetarian [&hellip;]
- [Noodles Dosa From Hotel Swastik](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/08/09/noodles-dosa-from-hotel-swastik/): Most food in the world have been created in two ways: 1) when making one food item it ended up becoming something different or 2) deliberately trying to make a new variety. What I am going to talk about is about a food item that comes in this second category. Whoever came up with this deserves a handshake ! Anyways, as I was sitting, I opened the profile of &#8220;Hotel Swastik&#8221; in Zomato today. It is a new profile too. So, obviously I opened it out of curiosity to know what all are available there. It was a list of various [&hellip;]
- [Butter Chicken From Supper Cloud](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/08/03/butter-chicken-from-supper-cloud/): When there is not enough rice to eat, especially when you get the measurement wrong in most households, usually the practice is to make something lite as well. So, it was when I too made such a mistake that I thought about making chapati. When you are pretty much blinded by hunger, what else can be done??? Having no patience to make a curry to go with it, decided to order something. So, ordered from Zomato this time. On opening the app, opened the menu of the restaurant that was offering a 50% discount. That was &#8220;Supper Cloud&#8221;. I had thought [&hellip;]
- [Chicken Biriyani From Arabian Tasty](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/08/02/chicken-biriyani-from-arabian-tasty/): It is normal for people to be extra lazy on a Sunday. If not, one must wonder if anyone can be considered human at all !!! And what if the weather is quite cool and raining?? What can I say! Of-course the laziness will increase a lot more. So, on one such Sunday, when I woke up, the hunger was intolerable and so I ordered a Biriyani in Zomato. So, from that, you can guess at what time I woke up. The Biriyani was ordered this time from &#8220;Arabian Tasty&#8221;. There was a 40% discount offer and so, I got the [&hellip;]
- ['Chicken Singapore Noodles' From Hangyo CTF](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/07/27/chicken-singapore-noodles-from-hangyo-ctf/): It has been a long since I tried noodles. I think it was in April or so when I had it last time and I can&#8217;t even remember from where. Anyways, it is a raining today and so I decided to order for some. I know a place called &#8220;Hangyo CTF&#8221; and I felt the food there to be fairly good. But I have never tried the noodles from there and so decided to try the same and opened the noodles section of their menu in Swiggy. That is when I noticed a name that was unfamiliar to me called &#8220;Chicken [&hellip;]
- ["Veg Manchurian Gravy with Steam Rice" From Sai's](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/07/26/veg-manchurian-gravy-with-steam-rice-from-sais/): So, it is Sunday today! Naturally everyone wakes up late. But since lockdown began, whether it is sunday or monday is irrelevant now. So, while sitting like that, decided to order something special and jumped straight into Zomato. Thats when I saw &#8220;Special Offer&#8221;. It was a list of combos there and I noticed the &#8220;Veg Manchurian Gravy with Steam Rice&#8221;. Price was Rs. 123 with 31% discount offer. I decided to order for the same and all that I mentioned under &#8220;Cooking Instructions&#8221; is that I need some sauce and also that everything needs to be packed separately. The order [&hellip;]
- [Corona Jagratha](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/07/21/corona-jagratha/): A short video put together by our team: Credits Concept &amp; Narration: Ahaliya Unnikrishnan Video Edits: Saran G Sound Edit &amp; Mix: Anoop Kammaran Music Credits The Clock (instrumental) by RYYZN https://soundcloud.com/ryyzn Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/al-the-clock Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/Sf-DjaE_TeE
- [Spanish Flu Is Just A Reminder For India To Tackle COVID-19](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/07/01/spanish-flu-is-just-a-reminder-for-india-to-tackle-covid-19/): India has begun the long and arduous journey to exit the lock-down. Its latest relaxation of restrictions saw masses throng liquor stores even as scores of migrants, who left cities nearly a month ago, finally reached their home states in special trains. These instances have naturally raised concerns of a possible spike in infections amid debates over how the seasonal change would impact the flu — so far, nobody thinks the hot summer months will make a difference to the virus — while Prime Minister Narendra Modi has warned states to be prepared for a possible increase in cases around June-July. [&hellip;]
- [A New Virus That Can Potentially Trigger A  Pandemic Discovered In China](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/06/30/a-new-virus-that-can-potentially-trigger-a-pandemic-discovered-in-china/): Researchers in China have discovered a new strain of the H1N1 swine flu virus that can potentially trigger a pandemic, though hasn’t yet shown evidence of human-to-human transmission. The peer-reviewed findings have been published in the journal, PNAS. Researchers have said the new strain of swine flu is a descendant of the H1N1 virus, with properties similar to the European avian-like (EA) H1N1 virus that had caused the 2009 pandemic in Mexico (pdm09). It is also a triple reassortant virus, which means its genetic sequence is a different combination of three of the eight segments of H1N1 RNA. The new strain [&hellip;]
- [Chicken Ularthiyathu from Zebra Spot](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/06/19/chicken-ularthiyathu-from-zebra-spot/): We haven&#8217;t talked about the Ularthiyathu !!! They say to really know the taste of home, you have to stay away from home. The cliche dialog that mothers usually say, &#8220;You will understand my value when I am not around&#8221; is sometimes right. I mean not just sometimes, but most of the time. During such situations, we usually end up finding some way to enjoy some food from our home town. When I ordered to have Appam after a long time, I thought about what should be the accompaniment to it. Thats when I noticed the Ularthiyathu. It was raining at [&hellip;]
- [Appam from Zebra Spot](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/06/19/appam-from-zebra-spot/): I have been thinking about getting &#8220;Appam&#8221; from &#8220;Zebra Spot&#8221; for a number of days. So, decided to order 4 Appams. Now what can I have with it??? Thats when I noticed their star item &#8220;Chicken Ularthiyathu&#8220;. You can guess the rest, right??? The total price of Appams was Rs. 54 and Rs. 180 for the Ularthiyathu. Altogether (along with discount), the total came up to Rs. 229; didn&#8217;t forget to type &#8220;Add more Gravy&#8221; under cooking instructions this time too. So, the order got delivered at about the 20th minute. Food from home always favoured by expats and in my [&hellip;]
- [Nissin Zesty Chicken Keema Cup Noodles](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/06/12/nissin-zesty-chicken-keema-cup-noodles/): A friend of mine suggested that I start doing reviews of packed foods as people need to know about them as well and not just restaurants&#8230; I thought about it and decided to do it and hence this post today&#8230; Those who know me personally, may know that I have always had sort of a love-hate relationship with instant noodle options that are available in India as I love very few of them&#8230; So, when I recently visited the nearby supermarket, I found this new variant of Nissin&#8217;s Cup Noodles called &#8220;Zesty Chicken Keema&#8221;. Finally got the chance to try it [&hellip;]
- [Is There No End To This??? -   "Palakkadan Chicken Biriyani" From Zebra Spot](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/06/12/is-there-no-end-to-this-palakkadan-chicken-biriyani-from-zebra-spot/): It has been some time since I had Biriyani; should I cook or order for one??? Obviously, I will be ordering, why a doubt??? Today I thought of getting a Kerala style Biriyani. So, without wasting any time, opened Swiggy and automatically, my fingers went straight for Zebra Spot &#8211; can&#8217;t blame them; thats how hungry I was!!! When I looked, there was &#8220;Palakkadan Chicken Biriyani&#8221;. &#8220;Eh??? I have head of Thalassery Dum Biriyani, Hyderabadi Biriyani, etc cause they are famous. This is the first time I am seeing a variety &#8211; how about trying that then???&#8221; Usually, my heart does [&hellip;]
- [The Dosa From Pai Tiffins](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/06/11/the-dosa-from-pai-tiffins/): So, the month of June has arrived and so did the majestic rains. How can it be so insensitive to the Corona situation??? Ofcourse it doesn&#8217;t care and is just raining!!! In that case, how about having a hot and crispy Masala Dosa in this rainy time&#8230; It is indeed true as they say that laziness brings some twisted thought or the other in people&#8230; right??? So, when I opened Swiggy, I found &#8220;Pai Tiffins&#8221; and yes, its the same &#8220;Pai Tiffins&#8221; that you all are thinking about. Pai Tiffins had started in Uduppi and then later grew and spread across [&hellip;]
- [Pankayam Special Pothichoru](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/06/09/pankayam-special-pothichoru/): It has been a long time since I last had Pothichoru and also anything that falls under the category of Seafood (ever since the lockdown)&#8230; Besides, in-spite of the mixed reviews that are out there, the Pankayam Restaurant is one place I wanted to try ever since it opened but sadly, never got the chance to do so&#8230; So, I guess it should not be a surprise that when I saw the option for Pothichoru from Pankayam Restaurant in Swiggy that too having Fish, I just had to try&#8230; Ever since the lockdown began, any kind of restaurant food has been [&hellip;]
- [To All Teachers](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/06/02/to-all-teachers/): The first time I saw the Victers channel was when I was studying in 10th std. It was Victers which helped me score good marks without going for any extra tuition classes. After that during +1 and +2, I have been watching it whenever I could. I subscribed to their Youtube channel when I heard that the curriculum for the upcoming year will be available. I guess it is the typical nostalgia of school days that made me do the same. The first notification that I saw was for the &#8220;First Bell&#8221; for 1 std class. I remember my old teacher [&hellip;]
- [Caramel Bread Pudding](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/05/31/caramel-bread-pudding/): So, another day and another recipe found online to try&#8230; This time my mother found a recipe for a Caramel Bread Pudding which we thought we could try as the ingredients were readily available&#8230; This time we went for the exact recipe without any improvisations and the following pics show the result&#8230; Heres the recipe&#8230; Ingredients White Bread: 6 slices Custard Powder: 1/4 cup Water: 1/4 cup Milk: 2 cups Sugar: 3/4 cups [To Taste] Procedure Melt 1/4 cup sugar and cook it for about a couple minutes till it becomes golden brown coloured and transfer to the baking tray and [&hellip;]
- [Puri-Bhaji From Parota Point](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/05/28/puri-bhaji-from-parota-point/): Was feeling too lazy to cook in the morning. Especially today since it was 10:30am and I was very hungry. So, went to Swiggy and saw Parota Point and chose their &#8220;Puri Bhaji&#8221; and saw the price as Rs. 45 and in the payment options, saw that with delivery charges, the total is Rs. 75. Also, in cooking instructions, I put in &#8220;Add Some Chutney&#8221;; Thats all. I have online classes. So, in that gap until then, I brushed my teeth and started heating the water for making tea on the stove. These days, its not milk tea but rather milk [&hellip;]
- [Veg Meals @ Zebra Spot](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/05/28/veg-meals-zebra-spot/): &#8220;It has been long time since having food from hometown &#8211; where to order from???&#8221;, &#8220;There is place called Zebra Spot&#8221; &#8211; It was during my first year of studies that I heard this name for the first time. Then it became my usual spot for food during Sundays when canteen is not open. This was 4 years ago in 2016 when Zomato and Swiggy didn&#8217;t exist in Manipal. Even since they started, I do order from them once in a while. It was during the first week of March when I went there first time. Since I was missing my [&hellip;]
- [Rava Dhokla](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/05/25/rava-dhokla/): Dhokla is, thanks especially to Bollywood, the most famous food item from the Indian state of Gujarat (even though the version thats most popular is actually Khaman and is misunderstood as Dhokla by most)&#8230; Dhokla&#8217;s original form is made by steaming a fermented Rice and Chickpeas paste along with Ginger, Chillies, Coriander, etc along with Baking Soda and its commonly eaten as either a snack or as a meal itself and sometimes as a side-dish as well&#8230; It is usually served with fried chillies and coriander chutney&#8230; There are different kinds of Dhokla based on the ratio of the Rice and [&hellip;]
- [Mac n Cheese Chicken Pasta From G2 Ginger Garlic, Manipal](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/05/19/mac-n-cheese-chicken-pasta-from-g2-ginger-garlic-manipal/): It has been a while since I have been wanting to try something I never tried before. Thats when I saw this particular item. Its from the G2 Ginger Garlic here in Manipal. Total cost was Rs. 179 and I decided to get it. Zomato was showing 36 mins to go and by then, rain started quite heavily. And with one swift lightning and thunder, the power supply went off. The parcel came 5 mins before the mentioned time. The Packing looked great. When I opened, I saw pasta ie macaroni looking like it was showered in cheese. On looking closely, [&hellip;]
- [Breakfast: Idly - Vada From Om Shree Kitchen](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/05/19/breakfast-idly-vada-from-om-shree-kitchen/): It has been a while since I had Idly. I don&#8217;t have the Idly maker at home and thats why. So, went straight to Zomato and placed an order for Idly-Vada from Om Shree Kitchen here in Manipal. It was Rs. 80 and the delivery came just in time and the extra chutney I asked for was given. Idly, Vada and the Sambar was packed in foil covers and Chutney was in regular plastic cover. I decided to have it while it remains hot. As usual, I opened the packet containing the Sambar. The aroma was good. But when I poured [&hellip;]
- [Easy Neypathal / Neypathiri](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/05/17/easy-neypathal-neypathiri/): So, yesterday my mom got this recipe for Neypathal from one of her friends which peaked both our interests cause it featured a short cut for making Neypathals using Puttu powder&#8230; The video of the same which we got is given at the bottom of this post&#8230; So, turned out today we decided to make Puttu for breakfast and along with it, decided to give this recipe a test&#8230; For those who are not aware, Neypathals or Neypathiris are a popular malabari food item made using Rice, Coconut, Onion and spices, mostly Fennel and Sesame and it is a time consuming [&hellip;]
- [Breakfast From Parota Point : Puri-Kurma And Bun Omelette](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/05/13/breakfast-from-parota-point-puri-kurma-and-bun-omelette/): Woke up late today. Online class is there &#8211; so quickly brushed my teeth and sat down for it. It&#8217;s going to be for 2 hours straight and hunger is of-course increasing every minute. So, order from &#8220;Parota Point&#8221; &#8211; one set Puri-Kurma and a Bun Omelette. The Puri set usually has 2 Puris and the order was made having the size of the Puris from the canteen in mind i.e. after eating Puris at 8 am, hunger will come back at 10 and then it will be a gruesome wait till 12 noon. 🙂 The total bill amount came to [&hellip;]
- [The Tale Of A Biriyani](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/05/11/the-tale-of-a-biriyani/): Today also, I felt hungry and when hunger strikes, since there is no need to hesitate, I opened Zomato. It has been a long time since I have had a Biriyani and so, decided to have it. Among the restaurants available, I went for &#8220;Supper Cloud&#8221; from which I have had food from before once. I remember having had the Hyderabadi Biriyani back then and it was good enough and so, obviously seeing that peaked my interest. So, ordered their &#8220;Chicken Biriyani&#8221;. Total price Rs. 232. And since this is near my house, the hope was that delivery would be quick. [&hellip;]
- [Chicken Penne From Manipal Express via Swiggy](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/05/06/chicken-penne-from-manipal-express-via-swiggy-eng/): Since Udupi is now in the Green Zone and I was extremely hungry, I downloaded Swiggy app, thinking I&#8217;d order something. I wanted to try Chinese, but the after scrolling for a while, landed into some good pasta. When I ordered &#8220;Chicken Penne Pasta&#8221; from Manipal Express for Rs 170, the total including delivery charge was Rs 190. Also, as suggestion, I requested Crockery and ketchup. The order was delivered in exactly 25 minutes, beautifully packed. The ketchup and the 3 spoons were there as requested, and also the one item which is not usually seen: the &#8220;bill&#8221;. When the parcel [&hellip;]
- [Easy Bread Halwa/Pudding](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/04/27/easy-bread-pudding/): This is a recipe that we do whenever we have some leftover bread in the fridge that needs to be used&#8230; White bread works the best with this in my opinion and I&#8217;m not saying that other whole grain breads won&#8217;t work, but the texture would be different&#8230; Ingredients So, heres what you&#8217;ll need&#8230; Bread &#8211; Atleast 5-6 slices of preferably Sweet White Bread&#8230; Milk &#8211; enough to completely soak (not flood) the bread used&#8230; Ghee &#8211; At-least 3 tbsp but more can be added to taste&#8230; Sugar or Sweetener &#8211; to taste&#8230; Condensed Milk [Optional] &#8211; to taste&#8230; Flavourings &#8211; [&hellip;]
- [Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/03/24/hantavirus-pulmonary-syndrome/): Hantavirus Realm: Riboviria Phylum: Negarnaviricota Class: Ellioviricetes Order: Bunyavirales Family: Hantaviridae Subfamily: Mammantavirinae Genus: Orthohantavirus A single-stranded, enveloped, negative-sense RNA virus, normally infect rodents, but do not cause disease in them.Humans may become infected with hantaviruses through contact with rodent urine, saliva, or feces. Some strains cause potentially fatal diseases in humans, such as hantavirus hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS), or hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), also known as hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS),while others have not been associated with known human disease.HPS (HCPS) is a &#8220;rare respiratory illness associated with the inhalation of aerosolized rodent excreta (urine and feces) contaminated by [&hellip;]
- [Hantavirus](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/03/24/hantavirus/): Even as the coronavirus outbreak takes the world by storm, a number of other diseases are also rearing their ugly heads. Cases of swine flu and bird flu have already been reported in India and other countries. Now, a man from China has tested positive for hantavirus. China’s Global Times tweeted that the man from Yunnan Province died while on his way back to Shandong Province for work on a bus on Monday. The 32 other people on the bus were also tested for the virus. What exactly is the Hantavirus? According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), [&hellip;]
- [COVID-19: What Happens When The Coronavirus Enters The Human Body](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/03/19/covid-19-what-happens-when-the-coronavirus-enters-the-human-body/): What are the symptoms of coronavirus infection from day one? What days are important? How can you identify a serious disease? This corona study result from China is the answer to many questions. The study comes from Wuhan, China, where the coronavirus first erupted in the world. Studies show that people who are infected with coronavirus can begin to show signs of fever, fatigue, and difficulty breathing. Data were collected from patients admitted to Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital and Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital from December 29, 2019 to January 31, 2020. Day 1 Most people have a fever of more than 100 Fahrenheit [&hellip;]
- [COVID-19: How To Identify](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/03/17/covid-19-how-to-identify-2/): The coronavirus has threatened the world. Thousands of lives have been infected with the virus. So if we get a little sneezing or runny nose, we&#8217;re afraid today… for those around us! But there is no need to worry cause every sneeze is not because of corona. Coronavirus fear seizes us when we see coughing, sneezing and fever. But these are also symptoms of common cold and fever. Do not jump to the conclusion that if you have a small cough you should not worry. But there is no need to worry about the symptoms. What is needed is precise observation. [&hellip;]
- [COVID-19: Arya Vaidya Sala Kottakkal, On Corona Preventive Protocol](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/03/14/covid-19-kottakal-arya-vaidyasala-prevantive-protocol/): This following information is from Arya Vaidya Sala, Kottakkal. In the emergency situation that has arisen due to the alarming spread of Corona virus, it is suggested to be equipped to provide Ayurvedic medicaments in the general public, to boost immunity as a precautionary measure. In pursuance of the above, we have to plan a treatment protocol which can be readily explained to the customers approaching us, seeking medical advice to improve immunity. In this connection, following medicines are suggested to be included in the protocol. Indukantham Kashayam / Kwatham Tablet / Ghritham / Indukantham Syrup Aswagandha Churnam Amritarishtam, Dasamularishtam, Aswagandharishtam [&hellip;]
- [How To Wash Hands](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/03/09/how-to-wash-hands/): To ensure safety, this Procedure must be performed for at-least 20 seconds. Wet your Hands. Apply sufficient Hand Wash to cover your hands. Rub your hands Palm to Palm. Alternate left and right palm on Top and in-between the Fingers. Rub your hands palm to palm with Fingers Interlaced. Rub with back of your fingers with Opposing Palms Interlocked. Do Rotational Rubbing of each Thumb. Do Rotational Rubbing backwards with Clasped Fingers. Rinse your Hands. Dry thoroughly using Single-Use Towel. Use Towel to turn off the Tap.
- [COVID-19: Public Safety Instructions](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/03/08/covid-19-public-safety-instructions/): Now that more confirmed cases of COVID-19 has been found, the following are the instructions issued in public interest as a precaution to avoid further spreading. Wash Hands Often using Soap and Water for atleast 20 seconds. Always cover both Mouth and Nose using a Towel whenever Coughing or Sneezing. Avoid Touching Eyes, Nose, Mouth, etc using Unwashed Hands. Avoid reuse of Items used by those having Fever. Visit Hospital only if actually Needed. Avoid frivolous visits. Avoid Travel to areas known to be affected by COVID-19. In case Fever, Cough, etc are observed, Seek Immediate Medical Attention.
- [A Lunch At Apollo Dimora](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/02/27/a-lunch-at-apollo-dimora/): It has been quite a while since I have been hearing about the Apollo Dimora hotel and especially about the vegetarian restaurant called Vega Dimora which my parents have made as their regular spot for lunch whenever they got during weekends&#8230; I haven&#8217;t had the chance to visit the place cause of being busy with work and also cause of how well I can afford to visit a 5 star hotel these days&#8230; 🙂 This time however, since I was free/jobless, my parents had me be their body guard for the day and hence I was with them for lunch 🙂 [&hellip;]
- [Thaqwa - First Visit](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/02/25/thaqwa-first-visit/): Off lately, I have been hearing about this restaurant called Thaqwa especially regarding their Mandi and Biriyani options and as I was planning to visit the place, I heard that they are about to open up a new branch here in Kazhakuttom and I thought I would wait for the same&#8230; Finally the place opened and I got the chance to visit&#8230; Basically this is located pretty much between Ambrosia and Brickhouse Oven near Kazhakuttom, where another restaurant used to be located (sadly, didn&#8217;t get the chance to try) and since I had the Mandi in mind, I went there for [&hellip;]
- [Ragging And Bullying - A Reminder](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/02/21/ragging-and-bullying-a-reminder/): It was two days before an Australian mother, asking for disability awareness to be added to the school curriculum after a bullying incident left her nine-year-old son crying and expressing thoughts of suicide. What is the punishment for ragging and bullying in IPC (Indian Penal Code)? (short answer: ragging or bullying punishments can’t be specifically explained unless we know the area of offense, region/state) There are thirteen provisions of the IPC (Indian Penal Code) which can be used by a fresher who is being ragged to register an FIR (First Information Report) in the police station under whose jurisdiction-area the crime [&hellip;]
- [Frida's Postpartum Recovery Kit Ad Too Graphic For ABC &amp; Oscars](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/02/17/fridas-postpartum-recovery-kit-ad-too-graphic-for-abc-oscars/): Frida, the five-year-old company that makes products for babies and new moms, doesn&#8217;t shy away from taboo. Its best-selling products deal with common but rarely discussed baby ailments, such as clogged nostrils (Frida Baby&#8217;s &#8220;Snotsucker&#8221;) and gas or constipation (Frida Baby&#8217;s &#8220;Windi&#8221;). Some of Frida&#8217;s marketing is apparently too taboo for the Oscars, however. The company&#8217;s latest advertisement, for products for new moms aimed at post-birth recovery, was recently rejected by ABC after being submitted for play during the Academy Awards that aired on February 9. Frida&#8217;s CEO was shocked. The ads featured during the 92nd Academy Awards on Sunday are [&hellip;]
- [About Mrinal's Recent Controversial Remark About The Trivandrum Food Scene](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/02/16/about-mrinals-recent-controversial-remark-about-trivandrum-food-scene/): Today, I came across a bunch of responses from my fellow food bloggers and many others from Trivandrum, essentially condemning what was said by Mrinal Das Vengalat, a fellow blogger and a restaurant management consultant, in his blog recently&#8230; I didn&#8217;t really want to respond to it but after many requests to do so, here we go&#8230; 🙂 The &#8220;Crime Scene&#8221; The following is the video that everybody is talking about right now&#8230; Apparently, in the video at around 0:59, he is accusing the people of Trivandrum to be mostly those for whom when it comes to food, only thing that [&hellip;]
- [Taj Mahotsav 2020](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/02/14/taj-mahotsav-2020/): Taj Mahotsav is an annual ten-day festival that takes place in Agra. The festival showcases an outstanding variety of art and craft, dance and cuisines of artisans from different regions of India. Kicked off in 1992, this festival provides the platform to the artisans from various states to display their exquisite works of art at the same time also making them available to the tourists at the most reasonable prices. Apart from that, the festival is also a paradise for, food aficionados with a supply of a plethora of varieties of cuisines, children with a Fun Fair in place and the [&hellip;]
- [World Radio Day 2020 - February 13](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/02/13/world-radio-day-2020-february-13/): The Executive Board of UNESCO recommended first to the General Conference regarding the proclamation of World Radio Day. On the proposal of the Director-General of UNESCO, Radio was established in 1946. Thereafter, the 36th session of UNESCO&#8217;s General Conference proclaimed February 13 as World Radio Day. The United Nations (UN) General Assembly endorsed UNESCO&#8217;s proclamation of World Radio Day on 14 January in 2013. Following this, the 67th session of the UN General Assembly, a resolution was adopted for proclaiming 13 February as World Radio Day. Radio Stations In India FM broadcasting began on 23 July 1977 in Chennai, then Madras, [&hellip;]
- [History Of Valentine's Day](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/02/13/history-of-valentines-day/): The history of Valentine’s Day–and the story of its patron saint–is shrouded in mystery. We do know that February has long been celebrated as a month of romance, and that St. Valentine’s Day, as we know it today, contains vestiges of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition. The Catholic Church recognizes at least three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus, all of whom were martyred. One legend contends that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius 2 decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage [&hellip;]
- [A Note On World Darwin Day](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/02/12/a-note-on-world-darwin-day/): In the beginning, the solar system revolved around the earth, and humanity was carved from clay and bone—plopped, as it were, perfectly formed into a populated garden. Origin stories are, however, meant to be rewritten, and the reformation of central, essential ideas about the nature of things meant and means challenging powerful ideologies and institutions.. Vision International Darwin Day will inspire people throughout the globe to reflect and act on the principles of intellectual bravery, perpetual curiosity, scientific thinking and hunger for truth as embodied in Charles Darwin. It will be a day of celebration, activism, and international cooperation for the [&hellip;]
- [COVID-19: The new Coronavirus Disease Officially Has A Name Now](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/02/12/covid-19-the-new-coronavirus-disease-officially-has-a-name-now/): The World Health Organization, on Tuesday proposed an official name for the illness caused by the new coronavirus: COVID-19. The acronym stands for Coronavirus Disease 2019, as the illness was first detected toward the end of last year. The director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, noted that Under international guidelines, the W.H.O. “had to find a name that did not refer to a geographical location, an animal, an individual or group of people, and which is also pronounceable and related to the disease,” on Twitter. The goal was to avoid stigma. The virus itself is called 2019-nCoV, [&hellip;]
- [The Much Awaited Visit To Cafe Mannam](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/02/12/the-much-awaited-visit-to-cafe-mannam/): Ever since I saw the review done by a friend of mine about a year or so ago, I have been wanting to visit the place called Cafe Mannam which is located on the Kazhakuttom-Kovalam Highway Bypass, opposite to Ananthapuri Hospital&#8230; But sadly due to constructions going on on the road, access was quite difficult for me not to mention the distance from where I live&#8230; In fact for the past couple of months, the owner of the place have been inviting me to check the food out saying he wanted me to check out his new recipes and I simply [&hellip;]
- [Precautions To Be Taken On The Account Of Increasing Hot Weather In The State](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/02/10/precautions-to-be-taken-on-the-account-of-increasing-hot-weather-in-the-state/): The following are the Precautionary instructions directed by the Disaster Management Authority of the Govt of Kerala, to prevent heat related health issues considering the fact that the weather is getting hotter than before in the state. Though released by the Kerala State Govt, the same can be applied everywhere else as well. Drink enough Water. Always carry a Bottle of Water. Always wear a Cap or use an Umbrella when going outside during Daytime. Avoid Alcoholic Beverages during Daytime. Always wear Loose and Light Colored Cotton Clothes. In Classrooms, ensure enough Ventilation. Ensure availability of Clean Drinking Water in Schools [&hellip;]
- [Entertainment Section Taking A Short Break](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/02/09/entertainment-section-taking-a-short-break/): Dear All, FYI, our Entertainment Section (Film Reviews, Etc) Writer is taking a short break and will be back very soon. Ofcourse, the remaining sections (Food, Etc) will continue as always. Happy Reading 🙂 Regards, Team TIP
- [Coughing Etiquette To Prevent Airborne Diseases](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/02/05/coughing-etiquette-to-prevent-airborne-diseases/): The following is the Coughing Etiquette guidelines to prevent spreading of Airborne Diseases like the deadly Corona Virus Infection. Cover the Nose and Mouth using a Clean Towel or Paper Tissues. If No Towel or Tissues, Cover the Nose and Mouth using one’s Upper Arm. Dispose the used Towels, Tissues, Cotton, etc safely using a Yellow Waste Bucket. Always Wash the Hands using Soap for a minimum of 30 Seconds.
- [Corona Virus Infection: Home Isolation Instructions](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/02/04/corona-virus-infection-home-isolation-instructions/): These are the instructions to be followed for Potential Patients who have been advised to remain in Home Isolation. Patients have to avoid direct contact with other members of household. Bystanders must use Protective measures like Mask and Gloves while handling the patient. Avoid direct contact with the patients’ bodily fluids of any kind. Always wash hands with soap after contact with the Patient, even after just entering the patient’s room. Always use clean paper or cloth towels after washing hands. Ensure safe/proper disposal of masks, gloves, towels, etc after use. The patient’s room must be bath attached and well ventilated. [&hellip;]
- [The Theme Of 2019 - 2021 For World Cancer Day By UICC](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/02/04/the-theme-of-2019-2021-for-world-cancer-day-by-uicc/): 2020 marks the midway point of the 3-year ‘I Am and I Will’ campaign. ‘I Am and I Will’ is an empowering call-to-action urging for personal commitment and represents the power of individual action taken now to impact the future. World Cancer Day is a campaign built to resonate, inspire change and mobilise action long after the day has passed. A multi-year campaign offers a chance to create long-lasting impact by increasing public-facing exposure and engagement, more opportunities to build global awareness and impact-driven action. The Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) organises World Cancer Day every year on February 4 [&hellip;]
- [Corona Virus Infection: Protocol To Be Followed By People Returning From China](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/02/03/corona-virus-infection-protocol-to-be-followed-by-people-returning-from-china/): The following chart has been taken from the Official Website of The Directorate of Health Services, Govt of Kerala &#8211; http://dhs.kerala.gov.in/ For further information on nCorona Guidelines, please check the latest officially released documentation (latest as of right now the time this post was published; do keep a watch on the DHS website for further updates) here: http://dhs.kerala.gov.in/pdf2020/ncorona_26012020.pdf
- [Corona Virus Infection - FYI - Basic Precautions To Be Taken](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/02/03/corona-virus-infection-basic-precautions-to-be-taken/): Dear All, 3 cases of Corona Virus infection in India is confirmed in Kerala. The situation is alarming enough. High level alertness and precautions are the need of the hour. We all touch 100&#8217;s of surfaces every day. Please use Hand Wash extensively. Encourage all at home to adhere to strict personal hygiene. Use Hand wash before eating, before cooking, after using toilets and washrooms, after caring pets and everytime back home from outside. Please take it up very seriously as there are No medications or vaccines yet. Drink boiled water as far as possible. Please take good care of your [&hellip;]
- [Strains Of Corona Virus](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/02/03/strains-of-corona-virus/): Human coronaviruses (HCoV) are important causes of upper respiratory infections in humans of all ages. In addition, HCoVs have occasionally been associated with pneumonia, meningitis and diarrhoea. HCoV RNA has been detected by RT-PCR in up to 40% of adult human brains (Stewart et al., 1992). All together there are 6 strains of Corona Viruses affected in Human beings till date and now its the seventh strain of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) had been found from Wuhan ,China The 6 strains of Corona Virus known are: Human Corona Virus 229E (HCoV-229E) Human Corona Virus OC43(HCoV-OC43) Human Corona Virus NL63 (HCoV-NL63) Human [&hellip;]
- [Novel Corona Virus - Things To Be Noted](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/02/03/novel-corona-virus-things-to-be-noted/): It has not been long before the whole world has gone thru the scare that was known as the NIPA virus. Now, it seems another even deadlier threat has arrived and this post is about what precautions we can take to prevent being affected. 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is a virus (more specifically, a coronavirus) identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China. Early on, many of the patients in the outbreak in Wuhan, China reportedly had some link to a large seafood and animal market, suggesting animal-to-person spread. However, a growing number of [&hellip;]
- [Trying The Famous Kuzhi Mandi At Alif Mandi House](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/01/30/trying-the-famous-kuzhi-mandi-at-alif-mandi-house/): Recently, when discussing about various Mandi options available in Trivandrum including a Mandi option I recently had (check it out here) with a couple of friends (who used to live in the middle east), they suggested I try Mandi from a recently opened place called Alif Mandi House, which is close to the Mukkolakkal, Kulathoor, close to Attinkuzhi but on the service road of the highway bypass, which is not too far from the area where I live&#8230; You may have noticed that I haven&#8217;t been posting much compared to before and its because I am going thru bit of a [&hellip;]
- [Hopper Restaurants: The New Fish Tawa Fry](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/01/27/hopper-restaurants-the-new-fish-tawa-fry/): As I have mentioned earlier, I have loved the food at Hopper especially the Chatti Choru and the various seafood options at the Hopper Restaurants at Akkulam, Trivandrum&#8230; I had been going there whenever I could for lunch but this time, it had been a few weeks since I ended up being too busy with work and turns out that the chef and pretty much the entire kitchen staff has changed and it was the day the new chef started working&#8230; Thankfully, the Chatti Choru that I wanted to get as usual was available 🙂 I did get the opportunity to [&hellip;]
- [Milestone: 50k Reads !!!](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/01/16/milestone-50k-reads/): We are extremely happy to report that our content has been read a total of 50k times so far&#8230; Thank you all for your support and hope you keep supporting us as always&#8230; Keep reading&#8230; ???
- [Michael's Icecream Burger: The First Try](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/01/14/michaels-icecream-burger/): Over the past few days, I had been hearing quite a hype regarding this new place that opened at Mall of Travancore called Michael&#8217;s Icecream Burger&#8230; I have had Ice Cream Sandwiches before but never a Burger though I have heard about the Dessert Burger concept before&#8230; So, I thought this might be a perfect opportunity to try and so, I went to the place today&#8230; The place is located at the same floor as the cafeteria but this place is pretty much at the other corner of the floor at the mall, near the escalator&#8230; 🙂 So, from the menu, [&hellip;]
- [Get Mammootyfied On January 23rd As "Mass" Is On The Way](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/01/11/get-mammootyfied-on-january-23rd-as-mass-is-on-the-way/): He is a ruthless money lender, an influential gangster and this teaser is a surprise swag to all Megastar fans there. Its been more than a week that the second teaser of “Shylock” hitting the YouTube screens. Mammokka singing the track “Theeyame” by Prashanth Pillai and PS Rafeeq from the movie “Angamally Diaries” of Pallissery had even crossed a couple of million views on YouTube. The first teaser showed how the character portrayed by Mammotty kicked butt in action, utter punch dialogues and showcasing an unexpected avathar with a full flexed vibe of a pucca mass stylish appearance. The tapping numbers [&hellip;]
- [Slice of Spice Returns](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/01/10/slice-of-spice-returns/): Slice of Spice is a very well known name in Kerala for their unique tasting grilled Chicken and Fish options and there were two outlets of their&#8217;s in Trivandrum not too long ago&#8230; But sadly they had to close them a few months ago and the good news is that recently they came back, that too to the same location in Kazhakuttom they used to be in&#8230; There are indeed a lot of rumours about how and why they closed and how they came back about which I don&#8217;t think there is any point in getting into at this stage&#8230; While [&hellip;]
- [Chhapaak Review Coming Soon](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/01/09/chhapaak-review-coming-soon/): Hi Everyone, Just wanted to let everyone know that in the interest of our love for Cinema and especially our love for India and everything India stands for, we will definitely be watching the new Chhapaak movie and the review will be posted as soon as we do&#8230; Regards, Team TIP #ComingSoon #BoycottNOTBycott #SaveIndiaFromIdiots #NoMoreStupidPolitics
- [Which Movie To Be The Best In Malayalam Of 2019 ??? Answer For A Chance To Win](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/01/06/which-movie-to-be-the-best-in-malayalam-of-2019/): Comment your answer below and get a chance to grab the tickets of Maraikkar &#8211; Arabikadalinte Simham.
- [Taco Bell @ Trivandrum: Long Time No See](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/01/05/taco-bell-at-trivandrum/): Ah&#8230; It has been a long time indeed&#8230; The first time I saw and tasted the food from Taco Bell was a long time ago when I visited my relatives in the US, back in the year 2000&#8230; It was indeed a love at first bite situation and I had been waiting for them to open a branch in India which happened almost a decade ago in Bengaluru and thankfully, shortly after they opened, I managed to visit there a couple of times&#8230; I had been waiting for a Taco Bell to open here in Trivandrum ever since and thankfully, that [&hellip;]
- [Merry Christmas And Happy New Year !!!](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/12/24/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year/): Wishing a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in advance to all our readers&#8230; With The Best Wishes and Regards Team TIP
- [Al Saj Restaurant: Meals Time](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/12/23/al-saj-restaurant-meals-time/): Well, today was the day I had a very strong craving to have some Pothichoru but sadly there were none available for delivery to my area as the ones who does somehow weren&#8217;t open for orders&#8230; So, that got me thinking&#8230; What do we have in Pothichoru?? Its basically a Kerala Style Meals with Omelette, Fried Meat/Fish, rt?? So, How about I get a portion of Meals with Omelette, Fish Fry and Fish Curry and then assemble them together?? Will I get an experience similar to eating a Pothichoru?? Well, depends on whether I can get Banana Leaf too which I [&hellip;]
- [The Fish Biriyani @ Ginger](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/12/18/the-fish-biriyani-ginger/): Off late, I have been quite busy with work and so this post is quite long overdue&#8230; So, a couple of weeks ago, I visited the Hotel Ginger here at Kazhakuttom for lunch and to my surprise they have started a new Fish Biriyani option there and obviously, as those who know me personally are aware, I tend to be a sucker for them and so I tried the same&#8230; It was served as shown in the pics below, served with a Raita and Lime Pickle&#8230; The Biriyanis that this place has been serving has always been the North Indian kind [&hellip;]
- [Godavari : The Taste of Hyderabad @ Kazhakuttom](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/12/16/godavari-the-taste-of-hyderabad-kazhakuttom/): A couple of weeks ago, a dear friend of mine recommended that I try the Biriyani from this restaurant called Godavari thats close to my home ie, in Kazhakuttom&#8230; When I asked, whats so special about this Biriyani, the reply I got from my friend is that its the most authentic Hyderabadi Biryani available in Trivandrum and obviously that peaked my interest since Hyderabadi Biriyanis were a favourite of mine and had been missing them for a long time ever since I settled down back here&#8230; However, I couldn&#8217;t visit the place cause when I tried going there using maps, I [&hellip;]
- [Entry Of Ramen At The Gourmet House](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/11/29/entry-of-ramen-at-the-gourmet-house/): For those who are unaware, I follow the blogs and vlogs of people like Mark Weins (Migrationology.com), Mikey Chen (Strictly Dumpling), Fung Bros, The Food Ranger, etc… And I have been trying to look for and try food thats as close as possible to what they show based on availability here… One of the dishes that I have been wanting to try for quite some time is the Ramen… Sadly, so far, a place that serves the same never existed and that changed very recently at The Gourmet House restaurant at Pattom where they recently launched a new menu which includes [&hellip;]
- [Vote for Vishnu R Raj for The Fjallraven Polar Expedition](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/11/26/vote-for-vishnu-r-raj-for-the-fjallraven-polar-expedition/): ????? ????? ???????? ??? ???? ?????? ???????????????? ?????????? It takes just 2 minutes to make his dream come true. Vote for Vishnu R Raj. Click on the link to vote: https://polar.fjallraven.com/contestant/?id=7052
- [Azad Star: Chemmeen Kothu Porotta and Tiger Prawns Roast](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/11/19/azad-star-chemmeen-kothu-porotta-and-tiger-prawns-roast/): Today, I was back at Azad Star at Mall of Travancore and to my surprise, saw that they have a new menu now&#8230; Of-course, all of their classic dishes are very much present but so are a number of new items as well&#8230; I had been craving for some Kothu Porotta and turns out they have a new variant which is the Chemmeen or Prawns Kothu Porotta&#8230; The waiter even recommended I try their prawns today as they apparently have got a good batch of Tiger Prawns&#8230; So, taking that advice, I asked for their Prawns Roast as well to go [&hellip;]
- [The Muffin House: Mango Muffin And Bango Shikofe](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/11/11/the-muffin-house-mango-muffin-and-bango-shikofe/): Today I was back at Mall of Travancore and was in the mood to have something sweet and so, went over to The Muffin House&#8230; This time, I found that they have Muffins and so I chose the Mango Muffin&#8230; In addition the Muffin, I also wanted a drink and what caught my eye from their menu this time is something they call as Bango Shikofe&#8230; So, this post is to talk about them 🙂 So, first, lets talk about the Mango Muffin&#8230; As you can see from the pic below, as can be understood from the size of the spoon [&hellip;]
- [Cordon Bleu Charcoal Restaurant - Chicken Yogurt Tikka, Chicken Fried Rice, Prawns Roast](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/11/06/cordon-bleu-charcoal-restaurant-chicken-yogurt-tikka-chicken-fried-rice-prawns-roast/): Back at Cordon Bleu Charcoal Restaurant again but this time for dinner on my way back home from work&#8230; It has been a while since my last visit to the place too&#8230; I must say, the place looks quite sparkly at night with the place so well lit&#8230; I arrived at a time they were just about to open after their evening break making me the first customer for the dinner service 🙂 This time, the owner recommended I try two of the newly introduced items from the menu which is the Chicken Yogurt Tikka from their starters menu and the [&hellip;]
- [Edaneram - First Visit - Chattichoru](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/10/25/edaneram-first-visit-chattichoru/): This place was recommended to me by my friend as a good option to try some good authentic Kerala Naadan food, especially the cuisine thats said to have been created by and popular traditionally among, the Travancore Christians&#8230; That cuisine is very popular as one of the best cuisines for meat eaters&#8230; The item that my friend recommended that I try is the special meals option called &#8220;Achayan&#8217;s Sadya&#8221;&#8230; The presence of meats like Beef and Pork was a concern for me since I don&#8217;t eat either of them, but I was assured that the restaurant do cater to people like [&hellip;]
- [Ambrosia @ Kazhakuttom - Chicken Chettinaadu Roll And Classic Royal Falooda](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/10/23/ambrosia-kazhakuttom-chicken-chettinaadu-roll-and-classic-royal-falooda/): Well, today, I ended up being stuck later than usual at work and because of how hectic it was, I ended up skipping lunch as well&#8230; So, as you can imagine, I was feeling extremely hungry as I was coming back&#8230; So, ended up stopping by Ambrosia (Kazhakuttom branch) for at-least a snack as there would be the dinner later at home&#8230; So, ended up having their Chicken Chettinaadu Roll as that was the only savoury option left at that time as the server informed me that they ran out of burger buns cause for some reason&#8230; Plus I wasn&#8217;t in [&hellip;]
- [Akash Hotel - Naadan Chicken Biriyani](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/10/19/akash-hotel-naadan-chicken-biriyani/): Manvila, Sreekariyam is a place I goto for work cause its where the film production house of my friend whom I work with is located&#8230; This time, again due to the timing, as I was leaving, I stepped into Akash Hotel, a small local restaurant at the Manvila junction hoping for lunch&#8230; Its just a walkable distance from the production house to this place and also where the nearest bus stop and auto stand is located too&#8230; The restaurant has that old rustic vibe to it in every way from its interiors to how the owner and staff behave, to the [&hellip;]
- [FruitBae - First Visit To A Juicery](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/10/15/fruitbae-first-visit-to-a-juicery/): Today, got the chance to visit the newly opened FruitBae, at Kuravankonam, Trivandrum&#8230; People who know me personally would know that I am allergic to most fruits and so why I would go to a Juicery claiming to serve 100% pure fruit juice you ask, I would say that a friend of mine managed to convinced me that much to try especially their fruit shots&#8230; So, basically armed myself with anti-allergic medication and went there 🙂 The place is located below the popular Old&#8217;s Cool Bistro, in the ground floor of the same building&#8230; Basically a small but nice looking shop [&hellip;]
- [Hopper Restaurants - The Tale Of Crab Soup And Fish Pollichathu](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/10/11/hopper-restaurants-the-tale-of-crab-soup-and-fish-pollichathu/): Whenever I goto Hopper, its usually lunch time&#8230; However this one time I ended up being a bit too busy and skipped lunch&#8230; So, its evening around 5:30PM this time&#8230; The restaurant happened to be along the way back home for me and so I called up ahead and confirmed that they are open since most places are closed at this time to be reopened for dinner&#8230; So, I reached there and settled down at a table&#8230; Within a few minutes, the head-chef whom I had befriended by this time came out and after the pleasantries, suggested that I try a [&hellip;]
- [Cordon Bleu Charcoal Restaurant - First Impressions](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/10/07/cordon-bleu-charcoal-restaurant-first-impressions/): Those who follow the food scene of Trivandrum would know, the owner of Burger Island and Cordon Bleu Charcoal Shawarma place had recently taken over the space that was previously occupied by Monsoon Days restaurant and hence the new Cordon Bleu Charcoal Restaurant was born&#8230; I was invited for the launch but couldn&#8217;t make it and so went there a couple of times by now&#8230; This post is about the same&#8230; Not much change has been done to the interiors of the place&#8230; The same furniture clearly has been inherited&#8230; However, the menu is a completely new one, as in you [&hellip;]
- [Chatti Choru &amp; Naadan Seafood A La Hopper](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/10/04/chatti-choru-naadan-seafood-a-la-hopper/): Over the past few months, I have been occasionally visiting Hopper Restaurants at Akkulam for lunch&#8230; This post is basically about the reason why I started preferring the place whenever I feel the craving for some naadan rice meal with seafood&#8230; So, presenting to you, the Chatti Choru which is basically the Kerala style rice meal served with Seafood / Meat in an earthen pot&#8230; This way of eating roots back to the traditional eating habits of the people of Kerala and was mostly forgotten due to modernisation thanks to western influences and so its nice to see some people bring [&hellip;]
- [Azad Star - Hundi Dum Biriyani](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/09/15/azad-star-hundi-dum-biriyani/): I am back at the Mall of Travancore and since I was hungry and had a craving for Biriyani, I decided and went to the Azad Star restaurant there&#8230; I had written about Azad&#8217;s own style of Biriyanis in my previous post and so, it was indeed a surprise to see this new Hundi Dum Biriyani displayed at the entrance&#8230; When asked, the head waiter who happened to be standing over there at that time, he informed me that its a new addition to the menu and its cooked in dum and served in a personal sized claypot a.k.a the Hundi&#8230; [&hellip;]
- [The Modern Sadya @ Atelier by Ambrosia](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/09/10/the-modern-sadya-atelier-by-ambrosia/): While planning to make the first visit to Atelier, the main motivation was to be able to try what they launched for this Onam in 2019 which they call as The Modern Sadya&#8230; However, turns out it was not available yet at the time and so, after a couple of days, I came back, after confirming with them about the availability to try the same&#8230; This time sat near the window at the corner instead of the sofa 🙂 I saw the menu of the Sadya placed on my table and it really looked interesting&#8230; The waiter will ask you whether [&hellip;]
- [Atelier by Ambrosia - First Visit](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/09/09/atelier-by-ambrosia-first-visit/): I have been hearing about this new &#8220;Fine Dining&#8221; place by Ambrosia called Atelier for the past few months and to be frank, I really have been avoiding it because personally I have always felt that the quality of food has severely declined at Ambrosia ever since they started doing mass production&#8230; So, was skeptical about Atelier because of the &#8220;Ambrosia&#8221; name and to make matters worse, I had just had my favourite burger from Ambrosia and it was really a mess too&#8230; So, I guess you can understand where all the skepticism came from&#8230; So, months passed by and one [&hellip;]
- [Pan Asian Food Festival @ The Gourmet House](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/09/08/pan-asian-food-festival-the-gourmet-house/): Recently, I heard about the Pan Asian Food Festival that&#8217;s currently going on at The Gourmet House restaurant, at Pattom, Trivandrum&#8230; And very soon, got an invitation from the restaurant to check it out&#8230; The highlight of the festival, at least to me was the fact that they claimed to bring in Sushi options for the first time&#8230; To be frank, this had me feeling skeptical as Trivandrum is not known to have pretty much anything these days that can be eaten safely and so imagine eating raw fish, get it??? I even contacted the restaurant expressing this concern of mine [&hellip;]
- [Flamingo Inn: Onasadya](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/09/05/flamingo-inn-onasadya/): Today morning, I saw an ad by the Flamingo Inn saying they are doing Onasadya this time&#8230; Flamingo Inn is a hotel I have been hearing for quite sometime even from my parents who had visited there recently and told me that the food was good&#8230; So, today anyways, I had to go out and so decided to check the place out and hopefully try the Onasadya as well&#8230; Apparently the place has two restaurants &#8211; namely the Purple Circuit and the Tikka Singh&#8230; Tikka Singh was closed and the Onasadya special was arranged in the Purple Circuit as one of [&hellip;]
- [String Hopper - Special Vazhayila Chicken Biriyani](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/08/27/string-hopper-special-vazhayila-chicken-biriyani/): It has been a long time since I visited or wrote about the food from String Hopper, the restaurant that claims to specialise in recipes revolving around the quintessential Idiyappam (otherwise known as String Hoppers)&#8230; That fact has nothing to do with the restaurant but rather it was because I ended up being busy with work because of which the amount of time I could afford to spend on blogging was limited and during the rare moments, when I could work on the blog, I ended up choosing newer places especially one nearer to where I live due to time constraints, [&hellip;]
- [Broccoli Pizza &amp; Pasta: The First Visit](https://imperfectpost.com/2019/08/22/broccoli-pizza-pasta-the-first-visit/): It was a friend of mine who informed me about Broccoli, the Dubai based restaurant chain today and also the fact that they have an outlet at the Mall of Travancore here&#8230; I was discussing about the various Pasta options in Trivandrum with my friend and I was suggested to give this place a try&#8230; And so, I went there in the evening and got to tried one of their pasta options and this post is about the same&#8230; I saw that do have a good selection of Pizza and Pasta options in their menu&#8230; However, when I approached the counter, [&hellip;]
- [Agrahar Cafe: Sadhya](https://imperfectpost.com/2025/11/30/agrahar-cafe-sadhya/): Recently my mother showed me an ad of a new vegetarian place nearby called Agrahar Cafe and the key highlight which she pointed out was the availability of Sadhya on a regular basis&#8230; We had been planning to go and try it but in between both me and my father ended up being sick and on this day, my mother also was not feeling well&#8230; Because of this we decided to order lunch and while checking out the delivery app for option, this place showed as a new addition&#8230; Turns out the Sadya was available&#8230; They call it as Sadhya Box [&hellip;]
- [Master Of Meals: Homely Pothichoru](https://imperfectpost.com/2025/02/27/master-of-meals-homely-pothichoru/): A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon an ad about a food provider who claimed to provide healthy home cooked food to Technopark area&#8230; I had been looking for such an option to use especially when my parents are out of town&#8230; So, they call themselves as Master Of Meals or MOM and when I tried talking to them, got to know that they provide subscription options for people who need food on a regular basis and they are fine with taking up one time orders but such orders need to be placed on the previous day so that they can [&hellip;]
- [Chaikaari: Benne and Ghee Dosa](https://imperfectpost.com/2025/02/24/chaikaari-benne-and-ghee-dosa/): Its been a long time since I posted here&#8230; I&#8217;ve been going thru some personal stuff and also, the situation of the food scene here at Trivandrum has been a bit sad in my opinion where new restaurants kept opening and closing so fast like even within a week, pretty much all serving run of the mill food that all look and taste the same&#8230; There were a couple of places that served good tasting food but by the time I could write about them they closed&#8230; The reason why I am writing now is that I found the food tasted [&hellip;]
- [Kannan's Homely Food: Pothichoru, Even Better](https://imperfectpost.com/2023/11/02/kannans-homely-food-pothichoru-even-better/): Recently, I was introduced to Kannan&#8217;s Homely Food, a homechef operation based at Station Kadavu, near Thumba, Trivandrum and had their food for the first time&#8230; I also did post about it too and in that I had mentioned about talking to the owner and giving some suggestions to further improve their product which they wholeheartedly accepted and promised to implement&#8230; So, when I felt the craving to have some Kerala Meals, I decided to contact them and have their Pothichoru again&#8230; So, here we are, with the new improved version of the Pothichoru by Kannan&#8217;s Homely Food&#8230; 🙂 While placing [&hellip;]
- [Kannan's Homely Food: The Affordable Meals](https://imperfectpost.com/2023/10/16/kannans-homely-food-the-affordable-meals/): A few days ago, I was contacted by a person thru Facebook saying that they are selling homemade Pothichoru at very affordable rates&#8230; After checking out the photos of the food they shared and having found from them that they are based in the area of Trivandrum called Station Kadavu, which is not only nearby where I live but also is the place I pretty much grew up in the neighbourhood of (the VSSC Housing Colony that is), I decided to give it a try and here we are&#8230; 🙂 The pic above shows how the food parcel arrived&#8230; While placing [&hellip;]
- [Uday Suites: Onam Sadya 2023](https://imperfectpost.com/2023/08/30/uday-suites-onam-sadya-2023/): Its Onam time again and that means its time for Sadya&#8230; As can be seen from my previous posts on Sadyas, my parents and I usually have been ordering home deliveries for the past few years for the occasion&#8230; However, this time we went out to have the Onam Sadya&#8230; This is because this time I couldn&#8217;t find any provider who does take up deliveries&#8230; At best, I could find a couple of them who said that though they don&#8217;t do deliveries, they might put up the leftover parcels in the popular delivery apps&#8230; But this also means, no guarantee of [&hellip;]
- [Dr: Jones: Burger Time](https://imperfectpost.com/2023/07/29/dr-jones-burger-time/): After seeing a couple of videos online, I felt a craving to have one but sadly at the time, there weren&#8217;t much options&#8230; As I was scrolling thru the apps, a new name popped up called &#8220;Dr: Jones&#8221;&#8230; From what I could find out, its a newly opened place along the Vettu Road in Kazhakuttom, close to Chittattumukku area&#8230; Their menu appeared to have a small but interesting selection of Burgers and Pizzas&#8230; So I decided to give it a try and here we are&#8230; So, among the Burger options, I went for the one they call as The Oklahoma Burger, [&hellip;]
- [Aryaas Elite Restaurant: Chemba Rice Meals](https://imperfectpost.com/2023/07/21/aryaas-elite-restaurant-chemba-rice-meals/): Recently I started seeing this relatively new vegetarian restaurant show up in the food delivery apps&#8230; Its been a while since my favourite &#8220;Aariyas&#8221; place in Kaniyapuram stopped showing up and I had been looking searching for it whenever I craved for a nice dosa and thats how I started seeing this Aryaas Elite Restaurant in the apps&#8230; So, during the last time I ordered food from the place for my parents, I noticed that they have what they called as the Chemba Rice Meals&#8230; So, wanted to try that and here we are&#8230; There is a small backstory which is [&hellip;]
- [A Shrimp Curry Powered By Tulua And Magellan](https://imperfectpost.com/2023/07/04/a-shrimp-curry-powered-by-tulua-and-magellan/): Over the past few weeks, I have been seeing two ads in social networks&#8230; One ad was regarding the Malabar Curry Paste from Tulua and the other one was regarding ready to cook seafood from Magellan (by Peninsular Fisheries Pvt Ltd.)&#8230; I had been thinking of trying to make Prawns/Shrimp curry here at my new home for quite some time and having seen the ads of these products, I thought it might be a good idea to try and so here we are with one pack of Tulua&#8217;s Malabar Curry paste along with couple of cups (200g each) of Shrimp from [&hellip;]
- [Saranyaa Mess: Biriyani Early In The Morning](https://imperfectpost.com/2023/06/15/saranyaa-mess-biriyani-early-in-the-morning/): Recently, I had been hearing about a new place that opened near Kazhakuttom and whats so unique about the place is that they make and serve Biriyani as early as 3 AM&#8230; This was surprising for me cause at pretty much every restaurant that I have ever been to, Biriyani has always been served exclusively for lunch&#8230; Even today, its nearly impossible to find a restaurant serving Biriyani for dinner and here we have the Saranyaa Mess who serves Biriyani at all times&#8230; It has been a while since I have been wanting to visit the place and finally got a [&hellip;]
- [Nellika Restaurant: Payar Kanji](https://imperfectpost.com/2023/04/21/nellika-restaurant-payar-kanji/): For the past couple of weeks or so, I have been seeing this new place pop up in the food delivery apps&#8230; Its called Nellika Restaurant and as per what the app tells me (since I can&#8217;t locate them online), they are located in Kazhakuttom right next to the Railway line&#8230; They have a very small menu consisting entirely of variants of Kanji (or Congee)&#8230; However, whenever I tried ordering from them they weren&#8217;t available&#8230; So, it was finally today that I got to place an order and have a taste of their Kanji and well, here we are 🙂 First [&hellip;]
- [Dindigul Thalappakatti Restaurant: The Chicken Biriyani Combo](https://imperfectpost.com/2023/03/26/dindigul-thalappakatti-restaurant-the-chicken-biriyani-combo/): The Dindigul Thalappakatti Restaurant is a very famous restaurant chain based out of Tamil Nadu that dates back to 1957&#8230; It has been over a year since their outlet opened here in Trivandrum and I have been hearing mixed reviews from the people who have dined there&#8230; To be frank, even me and my parents tried their biriyani once during those initial days and we weren&#8217;t impressed&#8230; Today when I was looking for a biriyani option to have for lunch, their outlet in Lulu Mall came up in the app and so, having heard some positive reviews recently, decided to go [&hellip;]
- [Aasife Biriyani: World's Best Biriyani??](https://imperfectpost.com/2023/01/05/aasife-biriyani-worlds-best-biriyani/): I have been hearing from a couple of my friends who have been recommending me to try the Biriyani from Aasife Biriyani for quite some time&#8230; But the place is not near to where I live and was hoping to visit when I end up going anywhere near the area&#8230; However, to my surprise, Aasife Biriyani started appearing for my location in the food delivery apps and so having recommended again by my friend, decided to try having their food delivered for lunch. So, in this post, I am covering two lunch orders that I had from the place thru which [&hellip;]
- [Hangout Lounge: The Puttu Ice Cream](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/12/28/hangout-lounge-the-puttu-ice-cream/): Not too long ago, I have been seeing quite a number of posts in social media about a new kind of Ice Cream Sundae thats becoming increasingly popular called The Puttu Ice Cream&#8230; I found it interesting to see an Ice Cream Sundae being served to resemble a portion of Puttu&#8230; I however, couldn&#8217;t find a place where I could get it and the images that I have been seeing were mostly of those made by people at home or at best saw one or two places serving it but not from Trivandrum&#8230; So, it was only yesterday that I came [&hellip;]
- [Mamma Rosa: Fish Pie & Linzer Cookies](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/10/10/mamma-rosa-fish-pie-linzer-cookies/): Having had the food from Mamma Rosa a few times so far, it has pretty much become my favourite provider of authentic European comfort foods in Trivandrum&#8230; It has however been a while since I last had their food and finally I got a chance to try again and here we are&#8230; 🙂 Not too long ago, the owner of Mamma Rosa sent me their new menu consisting of a few new additions to their menu&#8230; I have been hoping to try them but couldn&#8217;t for various reasons&#8230; So, finally when I got the chance now, I placed the order for [&hellip;]
- [The Gourmet House: New Sushis, Kung Pao Chicken, Etc.](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/10/08/the-gourmet-house-new-sushis-kung-pao-chicken-etc/): Back to Gourmet House after a while&#8230; I had heard that they have changed their menu and my friend was hoping to try something Korean and having remembered seeing them in their menu before, we decided to have lunch this time over there and here we are 🙂 The menu has indeed changed&#8230; All the Korean dishes that I had seen earlier is gone&#8230; The only item left was the Korean Fried Rice&#8230; So my friend decided to get that and based on my advice chose to go for Kung Pao Chicken along with it&#8230; I was in the mood for [&hellip;]
- [Aalimo Restaurant: Onam Special Sadya 2022](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/09/08/aalimo-restaurant-onam-special-sadya-2022/): Its Onam time again and for any foodie like me, that means only one thing &#8211; Sadya Time!!! The Sadya is the festive feast meal of Kerala and what I personally consider as the absolute best vegetarian platter of food in the world&#8230; Anyone who believes that vegetarian food is not good enough should definitely try this and I can guarantee that they would change their mind by the end of the meal&#8230; Over the past couple of years, I have been ordering the Sadya and having it delivered at home rather than how it was earlier when my mom used [&hellip;]
- [Azad Star: Chilli Cashew Shrimp Noodles And Grilled Butter Fish](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/09/06/azad-star-chilli-cashew-shrimp-noodles-and-grilled-butter-fish/): This time, I was back at the Azad Star restaurant at the Mall of Travancore for lunch and got to try a couple of new items from their menu that I felt was worth mentioning here and here we are&#8230; 🙂 During my visits so far, I have been focussing more on items from the Travancore Cuisine that they are famous for, but this time I decided to try from their Asian menu and hence got the Chilli Cashew Shrimp Noodles&#8230; My friend who was accompanying me had their Biriyani, about which I am not talking about here, as I have [&hellip;]
- [A Mini Samudram Meal](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/08/21/a-mini-samudram-meal/): So, what would you do, if you are a Malayali with a strong craving to have some Seafood??? What if that craving is fuelled by videos showing certain youtubers essentially devouring a bunch of Seafood dishes with Rice??? And on top of all that, what if you are a foodie who is on a limited budget, stuck at home in say, somewhere in and around Trivandrum?? ? Well, let&#8217;s talk about one idea that you can go for which is to assemble your own combo as shown in the pic below&#8230; ?? Well, this idea would require you to be able [&hellip;]
- [Godavari: The Famous Andhra Pesarattu](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/08/17/godavari-the-famous-andhra-pesarattu/): Pesarattu is a famous food item thats said to have originated in Andhra Pradesh thats very similar to the Dosa&#8230; The key difference is that its batter is made using Green Gram instead of the Ural Dal which is whats used in the case of the Dosa&#8230; Of-course the way its cooked and eaten is pretty much the same as the Dosa and the side dishes ie, the Sambar and Chutney(s) will have the Andhra influence as well&#8230; Now today it was indeed a surprise to see this item being listed as available in the menu of Godavari, the food provider [&hellip;]
- [Villa Maya: Trivandrum's Best](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/08/08/villa-maya-trivandrums-best/): Villa Maya is an upscale restaurant located at a restored 18th century erstwhile Travancore royal home called Arumana Ammaveedu in Trivandrum&#8230; Its a luxury restaurant that has won many awards including the award for being the best luxury theme restaurant in the world at World Luxury Restaurant Awards 2019&#8230; For me and my parents, this is a special place that we visit to celebrate special occasions like birthdays, anniversaries ( of my parents of-course), etc and in-fact the very first post in this blog was about a visit here somewhere in 2017&#8230; Though I have been here a few more times [&hellip;]
- [Karim's: The Revisit](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/07/31/karims-the-revisit/): When I visited Karim&#8217;s in Trivandrum for the first time, as mentioned in my post from back then, I was left with mixed feelings about the food&#8230; But Karim&#8217;s being this legendary brand that it has been with fans all over the world, I felt that its only fair that I give it another try and today, I happened to be at the Lulu Mall and hence decided to have my lunch there and here we are&#8230; 🙂 Turns out that the menu had undergone some changes as in some items have been added to it&#8230; As the waiter recommended, I [&hellip;]
- [The Brickhouse Oven: They're Back](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/07/30/the-brickhouse-oven-theyre-back/): Its been a very long time since I have been to The Brickhouse Oven and the reason simply is that the place was closed for more than 2 years&#8230; As can be seen from my previous posts about the place, it used to be a place that I personally considered as the place that made the best burgers in Trivandrum&#8230; I came to know very recently that they have reopened and hence I, having been missing the place, decided to check it out and here we are&#8230; The place clearly hasn&#8217;t changed at all except that the interior clearly shows its [&hellip;]
- [Travancore Street Kitchen: Simple Meals](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/07/15/travancore-street-kitchen-simple-meals/): It was recently that I found out about this restaurant near Kazhakuttom called Travancore Street Kitchen&#8230; I heard that they serve nice simple and homely naadan meals with seafood&#8230; When I searched about them in google, I found some really nice looking Chattichoru options and so I was hoping to be able to try it while going to the place&#8230; It is a small place&#8230; Two small dining rooms with very few tables&#8230; Every table had water and the loose curries thats included along with their meals already set as can be seen in the pic below&#8230; However, I did end [&hellip;]
- [Karim's: Masters Of Mughlai Cuisine](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/07/12/karims-masters-of-mughlai-cuisine/): Karim&#8217;s is said to be a legendary restaurant located in Delhi, thats famous for being the master when it comes to Mughlai Cuisine&#8230; Said to be founded and run by the descendants of the royal chefs of the erstwhile Mughal Empire, the first time I heard about this place is from Anthony Bourdain&#8217;s old show which included this place when it featured Delhi&#8230; Over the years I have seen others feature Karim&#8217;s in their respective shows including the youtubers like Mark Weins and so it has been a place I have been waiting to have the chance to visit&#8230; Recently, when [&hellip;]
- [Vaiga's Oottupura: Meals And Dosa](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/06/29/vaigas-oottupura-meals-and-dosa/): I was back at the Lulu Mall, Trivandrum with my friend and this time, we got to try the food at the only &#8220;Pure Vegetarian&#8221; counter at the cafeteria called Vaiga&#8217;s Oottupura&#8230; My parents had recently tried their food and had given positive reviews about them and lately, I have been getting some feedbacks here suggesting that I cover more vegetarian food&#8230; In addition to that, it was my friend who suggested we try the food from this place this time cause turns out she decided to become a vegetarian temporarily and hence, here we are 🙂 The menu basically consisted [&hellip;]
- [Azad Star: A Travancore Meal](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/06/20/azad-star-a-travancore-meal/): It has been a while since I last posted about the food at the Azad Star restaurant at the Mall of Travancore&#8230; Its because, I have always had mixed feelings about the place and also we had the pandemic situation which basically took away 2 years of our lives&#8230; So, recently I got to visit the place with my friend but unfortunately couldn&#8217;t take any pics (wasn&#8217;t expecting to do the same) but seeing the new menu, felt that there is something worth writing about and so when I ended up visiting the mall again, I decided that its a good [&hellip;]
- [Aadiruchi: The First Meal](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/06/04/aadiruchi-the-first-meal/): A few days ago, when I visited the Mall of Travancore, I found a couple of posters announcing the launch of a new food outlet in the cafeteria called Aadiruchi&#8230; They claim to be selling authentic Kerala food and I felt that the menu is quite interesting with Chattichoru, Pothichoru, Pazhanchoru, etc&#8230; So, this time when I planned to visit the mall, I decided to see if the place has opened by now and if so, to try the food and here we are 🙂 So, I was hoping to try the Chattichoru here&#8230; But unfortunately according to the staff, they [&hellip;]
- [Imperial Kitchen: Back To The Beloved Soup, Chicken, And Fish With A New Fried Rice](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/06/03/imperial-kitchen-back-to-the-beloved-soup-chicken-and-fish-with-a-new-fried-rice/): Finally got to visit the Imperial Kitchen restaurant at Keston Road again after more than two years&#8230; Its one of the very few restaurants, in fact the very first restaurant apart from the star hotels to have a truly International Multi-Cuisine menu and by that I mean, having options in the menu thats beyond the typical Indo-Chinese and North/South Indian stuff that we see in most Multi-Cuisine restaurants in India&#8230; My foodie friend was with me and turns out its her first time visiting the place as well and so she ask me to choose the food for us&#8230; So, I [&hellip;]
- [The Gourmet House: Soups, Rolls And Chop Suey](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/05/27/the-gourmet-house-soups-rolls-and-chop-suey/): If you ask me to list my all time favourite spots to eat, especially from Trivandrum, The Gourmet House at Pattom would definitely show up&#8230; As far as Trivandrum is concerned, this place is in my opinion the only place where one can find decent Asian Food especially the food other the Indo-Chinese run of mill stuff thats seen pretty much everywhere in some form or the other&#8230; It has been a while since I visited the place and thanks to my friend craving for some asian food and asking me for suggestions, I thought this would be a good opportunity [&hellip;]
- [Costa Coffee: Quest For The Lemon Cake](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/05/20/costa-coffee-quest-for-the-lemon-cake/): Its been a few months since Lulu Mall opened up in Trivandrum&#8230; I had been staying away due to the amount of crowd that was seen in front of the mall whenever I tried going by that area and also from quite a number of incidents of Covid spread linked to the crowd in the mall&#8230; However, those days are pretty much behind us and finally I decided to go when my foodie friend suggested we try visiting the Costa Coffee over there&#8230; Hence, I finally visited the mall for the first time and also checked out the Costa Coffee over [&hellip;]
- [Popcorn Chicken Biryani Bucket @ KFC](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/05/14/popcorn-chicken-biriyani-bucket-kfc/): So, turns out KFC has started serving Biriyani recently and I must say I am not that surprised since its well known that most people in India love Biriyani and its only smart from a business point of view to want to cash in on that as well 🙂 But I had decided to stay away from it as I was skeptical about the Biriyani coming from an American fast food chain&#8230; But my foodie friend recommended that we try it anyways since its not every day that we see an American fast food chain making an attempt at making anything [&hellip;]
- [Turf Cafe: Sumo Chicken Burger, Chicken & Waffles And Caramel Chocolate Tart](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/05/10/turf-cafe-sumo-chicken-burger-chicken-waffles-and-caramel-chocolate-tart/): The Turf Cafe has pretty much become a regular spot for me and my friend cause of the food they serve over there in addition to their drinks&#8230; A couple of days ago, I saw their announcement in social networks about the introduction of a new burger which they call as the Sumo&#8230; So, when I got the chance to visit yesterday, I got to try it and here we are 🙂 Now that I am writing this post, I am also including two other recently introduced items in their menu which I got to try from previous visits that I [&hellip;]
- [Ginger Hotel: Indian Thali](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/05/08/ginger-hotel-indian-thali/): Today I went out for an errand and like the good old days, dropped by the Ginger Hotel for lunch&#8230; After my last visit, as mentioned in the post about the same, I was hoping to visit again to try something from the new menu and here we are&#8230; 🙂 Before browsing the menu, I asked for a glass of Watermelon Juice and it arrived as shown in the pics below&#8230; Clearly, its nothing but slightly sweetened pure Watermelon juice and I felt that it came from a Fresh Watermelon&#8230; It felt very refreshing indeed considering the hot sun outside&#8230; From [&hellip;]
- [Ginger Hotel: Back To My Favourite Chicken Soup With Potatoes, Fried Rice And Fish](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/05/04/ginger-hotel-back-to-my-favourite-chicken-soup-with-potatoes-fried-rice-and-fish/): If you are someone who has been following this blog for at-least 3 years by now, you would probably know that the restaurant at the Ginger Hotel in Trivandrum has been a favourite of mine as a place to have lunch and I have indeed posted quite a bit about the food I have to got to try from the place&#8230; I have been missing the place ever since the Pandemic started and had been waiting to get back but so far I was under the impression that for safety, they hadn&#8217;t restarted dine-in for public in their restaurant and the [&hellip;]
- [Paragon Restaurant: Back After A Long Time With Soup, Fish And Puddings](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/05/01/paragon-restaurant-back-after-a-long-time-with-soup-fish-and-puddings/): Its been a long time since I last visited the Paragon Restaurant in Trivandrum&#8230; But I have been able to enjoy their food once in a while as thankfully their food is available to my place (with extra delivery charge) in the popular apps&#8230; But of-course due to the extra distance and a couple of permanent traffic bottlenecks along the way, the food get soggy, forcing me to restrict myself to ordering just those dishes which doesn&#8217;t get affected by this (the Fish Mango Curry for example)&#8230; So, I have been trying to visit for quite some time, but have been [&hellip;]
- [Poomaram: Chatti Choru](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/04/26/poomaram-chatti-choru/): I have been a fan of the Chatti Choru concept of having the Kerala Meals served in the clay pot used to cook the Fish and it has been a long time since I had it last time and my favourite place for the same shut down&#8230; So, it was indeed a very pleasant surprise when I found Chatti Choru in the menu of the Poomaram restaurant while looking to buy lunch this time&#8230; Obviously, I had to try and here we are 🙂 However, there is one problem with Chatti Choru options available in restaurants which is that its practically [&hellip;]
- [Kaffeehaus: Loaded Fries, Pizza And Birchermüesli](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/04/25/kaffeehaus-loaded-fries-pizza-and-birchermuesli/): Kaffeehaus has been one of my favourite places to go and its also a place I have quite extensively written about here as well&#8230; However, its been a long time since I have been to the place thanks to the pandemic and also due to the distance from my home&#8230; Finally got the chance to go over there and here we are after the first visit since the pandemic&#8230; My foodie friend was accompanying me on this trip&#8230; The menu has clearly changed since my last visit with the introduction of a few new items like Pizza which I had been [&hellip;]
- [Manasi Bakery Fast Food: Ilayil Oonu with Fish](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/04/23/manasi-bakery-fast-food-ilayil-oonu-with-fish/): Well, my parents are out of town and its time for lunch&#8230; Obviously, I am left to fend for myself and of-course feeling too lazy to cook, decided to buy lunch&#8230; Now, I have been craving to have the Kerala Meals with Fish again but none of my usual outlets were having meals this time&#8230; Hence found this new place called Manasi Bakery Fast Food and placed the order for their Kerala Meals which they call as the Ilayil Oonu With Fish Curry and I also added a portion of their Fish Fry as well&#8230; After a short while, the food [&hellip;]
- [Al Saj Restaurant: A Keralite Meal With Fish](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/03/29/al-saj-restaurant-a-keralite-meal-with-fish/): It has been a few days since I have been experiencing a craving to have some Kerala style meal with seafood&#8230; Al Saj used to be a favourite of mine for the same and I haven&#8217;t been there for the same since the pandemic era began&#8230; So, finally got the chance to go there and here we are&#8230; 🙂 Al Saj Restaurant is one of the most popular and oldest restaurants in Trivandrum&#8230; It&#8217;s even known to be one of the favourite spots of Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, the former President of India who even while being the President [&hellip;]
- [Madison Street: The Long Overdue First Visit](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/03/14/madison-street-the-long-overdue-first-visit/): Regular viewers of this blog would know that I have posted about the food I have had and enjoyed from the Madison Street restaurant, the fine dining restaurant located near Kazhakuttom that was started by the Mahansas team&#8230; As mentioned in the previous post, though I had been enjoying their food by ordering home deliveries, I couldn&#8217;t visit the restaurant when I first heard about the place cause of the pandemic situation&#8230; Even after that, various engagements kept me too occupied and long story short, I finally got the chance to visit the restaurant and here we are&#8230; The restaurant looked [&hellip;]
- [Turf Cafe: Back After A Long Time With The Spanish Latte And Chicken Fillet Burger](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/02/28/turf-cafe-back-after-a-long-time-with-the-spanish-latte-and-chicken-fillet-burger/): Its been a long time since I posted about the food at Turf Cafe&#8230; But I have been visiting sometimes though there was a long gap cause of the Covid situation&#8230; This time, I was here with my friend who has been recommending that I try the Spanish Latte thats available here&#8230; As can be seen in the pics below, clearly the place looks nice and clean as always with the dutch inspired interior&#8230; 🙂 The menu clearly has gone thru some changes&#8230; Last time, a complaint I had was that there weren&#8217;t enough Chicken options among burgers&#8230; However, in the [&hellip;]
- [Samyang Jjajang Ramen](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/01/18/samyang-jjajang-ramen/): It has been a few months since I last tried Samyang&#8217;s Buldak Ramen, the famous or rather infamous fire noodles from South Korea&#8230; Being a foodie I am somebody who always love trying new flavours and being also a fan of many things Korean 😛 , I have been wanting to try their famous Jjajangmyeon&#8230; So, turns out the closest thing to an authentic jjajangmyeon that I can get here is to buy the Jjajang Ramen noodles from the brand Samyang online and here we are&#8230; I have bought a couple of other variants too which I will be trying and [&hellip;]
- [Cake House: Plum Cake With Strawberry And Chocolate Royal Icing](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/01/17/cake-house-plum-cake-with-strawberry-and-chocolate-royal-icing/): I think avid readers of this blog would probably remember that my family does have a sort of a tradition of buying cakes for all our birthdays and especially for Christmas and/or New Year&#8230; This time however, thanks to our neighbours who collectively gave us too much cake for Christmas, we couldn&#8217;t order one of our own like we have been doing usually&#8230; However, we still wanted to do it, just that we had to wait a while for those cakes to be finished plus a gap which leads to where we are now&#8230; 🙂 Having enjoyed the Plum Cake with [&hellip;]
- [Sheela Home Food: Chicken Biriyani With Fish Fry](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/01/16/sheela-home-food-chicken-biriyani-with-fish-fry/): While looking for a place to order food for lunch, this time, found a new name called Sheela Home Food&#8230; A little bit of research online seems to suggest that its part of a hostel in Kazhakuttom whose kitchen appears to have started providing their &#8220;home food&#8221; via the delivery apps&#8230; Of-course the prospect of having homemade food as always has managed to peak my interest and here we are&#8230; I have to confess one thing here&#8230; This isn&#8217;t the first time I bought food from this place but rather the second time&#8230; Its because I was left with so much [&hellip;]
- [Spicebridge Restaurant: Chicken Cordon Bleu And Grilled Chicken With Mushroom Sauce Along With Tom Yum Kung](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/01/07/spicebridge-restaurant-chicken-cordon-bleu-and-grilled-chicken-with-mushroom-sauce-along-with-tom-yum-kung/): Having enjoyed the first visit to Spicebridge Restaurant, it really was a no brainer when choosing the spot for lunch and this time I was back here with my friend&#8230; So, even though I went for an item from the weekend special menu last time, I had noticed a couple of items from their menu which I wanted to try when I am back here and those were the Tom Yum Kung from their Soups list and also their Chicken Cordon Bleu about which I recently saw a fellow food blogger post about and peaked my interest&#8230; My friend was interested [&hellip;]
- [Spicebridge Restaurant: Finally The First Visit With Nasi Goreng](https://imperfectpost.com/2022/01/03/spicebridge-restaurant-finally-the-first-visit-with-nasi-goreng/): Its been a while since I started having food from Spicebridge Restaurant delivered at home and having liked the food, I had been meaning to visit the restaurant&#8230; However, due to the pandemic situation I couldn&#8217;t and it has been only quite recently that dine in started being allowed by the government&#8230; So, yesterday, I finally got the opportunity to visit the restaurant and here we are&#8230; 🙂 Basically Spicebridge is the restaurant of the hotel called Homebridge Hotel &amp; Suites, a premium business hotel owned and run by SFS Homes, a popular construction firm in Kerala and they do have [&hellip;]
- [Ambadi Hotel & Takeaway: A Lite Naadan Breakfast](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/12/03/ambadi-hotel-takeaway-a-lite-naadan-breakfast/): So, its yet another day thats just perfect to order breakfast and this time I chose a new place, as in new for me&#8230; Its called Ambadi Hotel &amp; Takeaway, said to be located at Chakkalamukku near Sreekaryam&#8230; I have been seeing this place show up once in a while in the food delivery app that I use but I thought today would be a perfect opportunity to try and here we are 🙂 Basically, its a limited menu, as it is with pretty much all the restaurants here when it comes to breakfast and among the few that was available, [&hellip;]
- [Spice Trail By Avoki: An Indo-Chinese Lunch](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/11/03/spice-trail-by-avoki-an-indo-chinese-lunch/): It was a pleasant surprise to see the Spice Trail restaurant at Avoki Resorts to be available in the food delivery apps when searching for options for lunch this time&#8230; It has been a long since I have enjoyed their food last time and I had been looking for it ever since too&#8230; So, its just me and my mom at home and having seen this place as available, we decided to try having their food again&#8230; So, we placed the order for their Veg Spring Rolls for my mom (ordered two portions so that I can have a bit to [&hellip;]
- [Spicebridge Restaurant: Chicken Hawaiian Salad And Good Old Fish 'n' Chips](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/10/29/spicebridge-restaurant-chicken-hawaiian-salad-and-good-old-fish-n-chips/): It has been a long time since I had any western food&#8230; So, today, in order to order food for lunch, I was checking out the menu of Spicebridge restaurant and I found a few such options that seems to be a recent addition to their menu as I had never seen them there&#8230; So, I got their Chicken Hawaiian Salad and their Fish &#8216;n&#8217; Chips today and they arrived as shown in the pics below&#8230; 🙂 First, lets talk about the Chicken Hawaiian Salad&#8230; Typically, its a sweet salad made with Lettuce along with some tropical fruits especially Pineapple and [&hellip;]
- [Hotel Lilac: Pothichoru](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/10/20/hotel-lilac-pothichoru/): I have always had mixed feelings about the food from Hotel Lilac at Vettu Road Junction on the highway&#8230; Its because though they call themselves as The Fusion Restaurant and have an interesting menu, my experience with their food has been such that, they do appear to have some serious consistency issues&#8230; However, I came to know recently that they are most famous for their Kerala style Meals with Fish and I realised that I never tried the same from the place&#8230; So, today when my mom asked me to order food for lunch, I thought this would be the best [&hellip;]
- [Jithu Joji Homely Food: Meals With Seafood](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/10/06/jithu-joji-homely-food-meals-with-seafood/): Ah&#8230; Its been a while since I posted anything here&#8230; Mostly been busy plus didn&#8217;t get the opportunity to try anything worth writing about&#8230; Today, however, when looking for options to order for lunch, came across this place called Jithu Joji Homely Food that I had never heard about before&#8230; Turns out its a naadan food place with multiple locations in Trivandrum and the reviews online are quite mixed&#8230; Since me and my parents were looking for Naadan food, I thought its a good opportunity to try and here we are&#8230; 🙂 Among their locations, its the one at Murinjapalam near [&hellip;]
- [Hotel Karthika Park: Onam Sadya](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/08/21/hotel-karthika-park-onam-sadya/): Its the day of the Onam festival today and for foodies, a day to have the Sadya meal&#8230; At my home, for the past few years, we have been buying the Sadya meals from various providers&#8230; While searching for an option this time, I found that the Hotel Karthika Park was open for orders and so having enjoyed their food before well, we decided to go ahead and place the order for their Onam Sadya&#8230; While placing the order, as before I tried asking for two portions with one extra third portion without rice&#8230; This is because, typically both me and [&hellip;]
- [Samyang Buldak Ramen](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/08/13/samyang-buldak-ramen/): For quite some time, I have been hearing about a &#8220;Fire Noodles Challenge&#8221; that has been quite popular with Youtubers/Vloggers who have been attempting the same using the Samyang Buldak (or Fire Chicken) Ramen&#8230; Having been exposed to Korean culture thanks to my friend, I have been wanting to try their food but sadly as we all know, we don&#8217;t get to have anything authentic here and even though a couple of restaurants have announced starting one or two Korean dishes, thanks to the Pandemic situation, I haven&#8217;t been able to try&#8230; Thats when I noticed the availability of Samyang&#8217;s products [&hellip;]
- [Deepthi's Annapoornaa: The Kerala Sadhya](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/08/08/deepthis-annapoornaa-the-kerala-sadhya/): Onam is around the corner and my mom (and I as well) have been feeling a craving to have a Sadhya for quite a while now&#8230; So, being the Onam season, I was looking for options to order home delivery and sadly most places only deliver on the Onam day alone&#8230; It was then that I came to know that today happens to be the Karikkidaka Vaavu day which even though is not something we observe usually being not that important for us North Keralites as it is in the south, turns out some places have been open for orders for [&hellip;]
- [Spicebridge Restaurant: The Chilly Fish](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/08/02/spicebridge-restaurant-the-chilly-fish/): This time, when my mom asked me to order food, I decided to go for a relatively new place, atleast as far the support by the delivery apps go&#8230; Its the restaurant called Spicebridge which is part of the hotel by SFS Homes called SFS Homebridge, located along with the SFS Cyber Palms on the NH66 bypass&#8230; This is one of the restaurants about which I had been hoping to write after visiting in person but we all know what happened to such plans, rt?? Anyways, I thought off putting off writing about it until visit, but the food I got [&hellip;]
- [Al Saj Restaurant: Irachi Choru With Chicken Fry](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/07/30/al-saj-restaurant-irachi-choru-with-chicken-fry/): Yet another day when my parents asked me to order lunch for myself and my dad&#8230; For those who may be unaware, my parents does this thing sometimes when there is just enough food in the house for the two of them and they then ask me to order food for myself along with some side dish or so for my dad&#8230; It was one such day this time and as I was checking the delivery apps for options, I thought of going for something from Al Saj since it has been a very long time as the place has very [&hellip;]
- [Oven Story Pizza: So Indian Pizzas](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/07/24/oven-story-pizza-so-indian-pizzas/): It has been a long time since I had a Pizza by now and had been craving for the same&#8230; Dominos has always been the favourite of my parents and they had been insisting on getting their Pizzas and none other, but unfortunately ever since the pandemic hit, Dominos had stopped delivery to my area (heard that the outlet at Kazhakuttom got closed &#8211; not sure)&#8230; So, it is today that I noticed this new provider of Pizza called Oven Story Pizza in the delivery apps and seeing that the menu is mostly Indian style pizzas, which my parents prefer, we [&hellip;]
- [Hotel Karthika Park: Pothichoru](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/07/07/hotel-karthika-park-pothichoru/): Today I was quite surprised when I looked at the menu of Hotel Karthika Park in my regular food delivery app&#8230; There were a couple of new entires and among them was the Pothichoru&#8230; My regular readers here would know how much of a sucker I am for Pothichoru and that I simply can&#8217;t resist the temptation to try when a new one is seen to be available&#8230; So, I couldn&#8217;t wait to to try the same as it is the first time this hotel is seen to be doing this and having enjoyed their food before, placed the order along [&hellip;]
- [Bikash Babu Sweets: Birthday Celebration Part Deux](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/07/06/bikash-babu-sweets-birthday-celebration-part-deux/): So, whats a Birthday Celebration without something sweet?? My mom is someone who doesn&#8217;t enjoy Cakes much and rather prefer Indian Sweets or anything that doesn&#8217;t contain eggs&#8230; So, it is she who asked us to get some sweets from Bikash Babu Sweets as she as well as the rest of us, have always loved their products ever since she first started having them&#8230; So, here we are with a few of their sweets namely, the Motipak, Motichoor Laddu, Kesar Kaju Roll and Kalakand as shown in the pics below 🙂 Now coming to the taste of each of these items, [&hellip;]
- [Hotel Karthika Park: Birthday Special Breakfast](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/07/05/hotel-karthika-park-birthday-special-breakfast/): So, its my mom&#8217;s birthday today and to celebrate, this time again, we have a limitation which is that thanks to the Corona situation, we can&#8217;t obviously travel anywhere&#8230; So, among the options we can get home delivery from, my mom chose Hotel Karthika Park as its breakfast menu had everything she was hoping to get and also because she has always loved their food whenever she had&#8230; This breakfast menu is a new one that recently started showing up in the food delivery apps and so, decided to go ahead and get a few of the items, namely their Masala [&hellip;]
- [Waffle'sBae Anyday @ Trivandrum: The First Time](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/07/01/wafflesbae-anyday-trivandrum-the-first-time/): This time, my parents and I were interested in buying something sweet to have&#8230; It was my mom&#8217;s birthday as per the lunar calendar on the previous day and so this was pretty much an extension of the celebration as requested by her 🙂 So, when looking for options, a couple of Waffles places showed up in the app and after seeing the menu of both, decided to try a few items from Waffle&#8217;sBay Anyday&#8230; Turns out they are a fairly popular chain that specialises in making Belgian Waffles thats based out of Kochi and had opened up in Trivandrum not [&hellip;]
- [Madison Street: Return of Mahansas - The First Impression](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/06/15/madison-street-return-of-mahansas-the-first-impression/): By the time I had heard about Mahansas Kitchen, essentially a cloud kitchen that was quite popular in Trivandrum as a great source of homely food, for the first time thru some social network posts, they had closed down&#8230; Then I started hearing about the Madison Street restaurant which is the fine dining restaurant started by the Mahansas team and come to think of it, it is incredibly weird that though I had been hearing so much about them from social networks and from friends, I never actually had tried their food until now&#8230; Its just that by the time I [&hellip;]
- [Kochi Peedia: The First Impression](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/06/11/kochi-peedia-the-first-impression/): So, its yet another day of seafood craving for both me and my dad&#8230; Mom was in the process of making some Congee along with a few of its accompaniments&#8230; So, because of the craving, I was looking for a Fish Fry option to get and to my surprise, found the restaurant called Kochi Peedia listed in the food delivery app that I use and though the restaurant has been open for some time, it was the first time I saw it listed&#8230; So, checked out the menu and placed the order for a portion each of Mathi (Sardines) Fry and [&hellip;]
- [Nikunjam Restaurant @ Chenkottukonam: Breakfast](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/06/05/nikunjam-restaurant-chenkottukonam-breakfast/): After quite a while, I was asked to buy food for breakfast and as I looked for options, I found this new restaurant in the list called Nikunjam Restaurant&#8230; Now first I thought it might be the legendary Nikunjam Restaurant located at Vazhuthacaud but this one is mentioned as located at Chenkottukonam&#8230; I tried searching online about it and there isn&#8217;t much info other than that there is a restaurant there having that name&#8230; I was hoping to find any info about whether its related in any way to the legendary place&#8230; Anyways, since my mom was in the mood for [&hellip;]
- [Easy Egg Biriyani](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/05/22/easy-egg-biriyani/): So, its a day of Triple Lockdown and turns out there was some cooked Basmati Rice leftover at home and my mom and I were thinking of how to use it&#8230; I found that we have some eggs as well in the fridge and I thought of reviving some of my cooking skills and make an Egg Biriyani out of it&#8230; Of-course recipe based on the Chicken Biriyani that I have made before and let me make is absolutely clear that this is not your &#8220;authentic&#8221; dum biriyani recipe but rather a quick and easy one that I improvised myself thru [&hellip;]
- [Spicehaus by Kaffeehaus: Fish Curry Meals and Tomato Rice](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/05/10/spicehaus-by-kaffeehaus-fish-curry-meals-and-tomato-rice/): Well, turns out Lockdown 2021 is in full swing in Kerala but thankfully unlike how it was back in 2020, this time they allowed restaurants and food delivery services to continue functioning though restaurants are restricted to doing only parcels for home delivery&#8230; So, I was able to order food for lunch today as asked by my parents&#8230; Since my mom insisted on having Tomato Rice, I was searching for a restaurant or cloud kitchen that does it and Spicehaus came up again as apparently they had started doing the same recently&#8230; Having been fond of the food from Spicehaus so [&hellip;]
- [The Taste Company: The First Try With Couple Of Trial / Combo Packs](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/04/27/the-taste-company-the-first-try-with-couple-of-trial-combo-packs/): I recently heard about this brand called The Taste Company who creates &#8220;just add boiling water&#8221; instant meal bowls that are similar to the famous Cup Noodles but with Indian food items&#8230; From what I could gather, The Taste Company is a brand based in Telangana and they specialise in making instant foods, focussing on Hot Indian Food items and they claim to be having an anti-plastic policy and hence uses eco friendly materials&#8230; So, having seen a couple of reviews, I thought of trying and got a couple of their Trial / Combo packs, namely their Meal Combo and their [&hellip;]
- [Sweet Truth: The First Impression](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/04/25/sweet-truth-the-first-impression/): Sweet Truth is another brand of Rebel Foods about which I briefly mentioned about in my previous post and the focus appears to be on cakes here as they seem to be having quite a good selection of Cakes in their menu&#8230; However, what peaked my interest enough to try ordering from them is the mention of Cheese Cakes in the menu, which is something I have been craving for, for the past 1 year&#8230; So, here we are 🙂 According to the menu, they have 3 kinds of Cheese Cakes namely the New York Cheese Cake, the Mango Cheese Cake [&hellip;]
- [The Behrouz Biriyani](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/04/23/the-behrouz-biriyani/): Today, I found another name in the food delivery app that I hadn&#8217;t seen before and its called Behrouz Biriyani&#8230; From the menu and the name its clear that Biriyani is the signature item and since today, I was feeling a bit of craving for Biriyani (among other things 😉 ), I thought of giving it a try and placed the order&#8230; However, after placing the order, I tried searching online for info about the place like I usually do and things didn&#8217;t go as I thought it would&#8230; First of all, the website doesn&#8217;t mention anything about their origin or [&hellip;]
- [Shappile Curry: Fish Meals, Choora And Kayal Konju](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/04/22/shappile-curry-fish-meals-choora-and-kayal-konju/): Recently, while ordering food, thru the food delivery app, I noticed a name which I hadn&#8217;t seen before and its called &#8220;Shappile Curry&#8221; and based on the info written in the app, its located in Karikkakam area&#8230; When I checked out the menu, one item peaked my interest and that was Kayal Konju Roast&#8230; Rest of the menu appears to be equally focussed on seafood and meats and like the name suggests, the menu appeared to specialise in the kind of food thats usually sold at Toddy Shops (Kallu-Shapp which is where the name Shappile Curry comes from) in Kerala&#8230; Anyways, [&hellip;]
- [Aariyas @ Kaniyapuram: An Exception Among "Aryas" Places](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/04/21/aariyas-kaniyapuram-an-exception-among-aryas-places/): We do have quite a number of Vegetarian restaurants in Trivandrum and the funny thing is that most of them have name that sounds the same but spelled differently&#8230; I am talking of-course about the various &#8220;Aryas&#8221; restaurants which have essentially became the goto reference for anything Vegetarian here&#8230; What I find weird is that the food pretty much tastes the same no matter which one you goto and when I enquired about them out of curiosity, turns out they aren&#8217;t owned by the same management as well&#8230; However, this post is about an exception that I recently discovered and this [&hellip;]
- [Poomaram: Pothichoru](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/04/20/poomaram-pothichoru/): So, today ended up being another day where I was craving for a Pothichoru for lunch&#8230; Recently a friend of mine posted a status about this Pothichoru from the Poormaram Restaurant and I had not tried the same from Poormaram yet&#8230; So, what better opportunity to try, rt??? So, placed the order for their Non-Veg Pothichoru and as always, the Thalasseryite in me woke up and so placed the order for an extra portion of Fish Peera to go with it, cause of obvious reasons and especially because of how much I liked the same when I had last time&#8230; Anyways, [&hellip;]
- [Nissin Cup Noodles: A Few Worth Trying](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/04/18/nissin-cup-noodles-a-few-worth-trying/): I have mentioned before about how I like having instant noodles, especially the ones from Nissin and even had written about a couple of their products as well&#8230; Turns out, my recent couple of trips to the supermarket ended up with me finding a few more products of Nissin Cup Noodles that peaked my interest and so thought I&#8217;ll try and make a post about them and here we are 🙂 So, lets talk about the Malai Kofta Cup Noodles first&#8230; The Malai Kofta, as you may know, if you follow Indian Cuisine is a very popular vegetarian dish thats said [&hellip;]
- [Spicehaus By Kaffeehaus: The Vishu Sadya](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/04/15/spicehaus-by-kaffeehaus-the-vishu-sadya/): We are all aware of how special Sadya can be for us Malayalis as it usually is the highlight of any celebration being pretty much the one which gives us most of the fond memories we are left with at the end&#8230; So, the festival of Vishu just got done and like every other festival of Kerala, the tradition of eating Sadya along with one&#8217;s family holds as well&#8230; So, once again, we decided to buy the food and having loved the Onam Sadya done by Spicehaus for Onam last time, we went ahead and placed the order for their Vishu [&hellip;]
- [Spicehaus By Kaffeehaus: The Easter Special](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/04/04/spicehaus-by-kaffeehaus-the-easter-special/): So, Happy Easter Everyone !!! 🙂 A few days ago, I saw an ad / announcement from the team at Spicehaus about the availability of an Easter special &#8220;Meal for One&#8221; menu where they have essentially a set of Combos namely the Vegetarian Meal for One, Chicken Meal for One and the Spicehaus Special Meal for One&#8230; So, we decided to try especially since, there were a few new items which weren&#8217;t there in their menu so far&#8230; So, we bought the Vegetarian and Chicken versions for all of us here (the Special Meal had Beef and Mutton, neither of which [&hellip;]
- [Poomaram: The First Impression About Ram's Kitchen](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/04/01/poomaram-the-first-impression-about-rams-kitchen/): I have been hearing for quite a while about this restaurant near Aakkulam called Poomaram &#8211; Ram&#8217;s Kitchen&#8230; From what I could find out, it is a restaurant that started as a Seafood speciality spot by a former IT Professional out of his passion for food&#8230; Nowadays, it has grown beyond seafood and now is essentially a multi-cuisine restaurant and one of my friends who is a regular there keeps telling me that they sell the best Naadan Beef items in Trivandrum&#8230; Of-course, I am interested in the Seafood&#8230; However, unfortunately, by the time I could get around to visiting the [&hellip;]
- [The Kati Roll Shop](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/03/27/the-kati-roll-shop/): Yesterday, while returning home after going out for some shopping with my parents, we noticed this new place that appears to have opened recently near Kazhakuttom called The Kati Roll Shop&#8230; I have been quite fond of Kaatti Rolls and Frankies back when I used to live in Mumbai and obviously, seeing the name did peak my interest&#8230; My parents have been fond of Kaatti Rolls too and so, today when we decided to buy lunch and saw this place show up in the delivery app, we decided to go ahead and try their food&#8230; So, lets start with the Rolls&#8230; [&hellip;]
- [Kaffeehaus Cloud Kitchen: An Eggy Breakfast](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/03/12/kaffeehaus-spicehaus-an-eggy-breakfast/): Today, when thinking of what to order for breakfast, I ended up checking out the menu of Kaffeehaus Cloud Kitchen and found a couple of new breakfast options, namely the Scrambled Eggs and also the Omelette, both served with toasted bread&#8230; Of-course, my dad prefers something naadan and so there was the option of Egg Roast that we have had from their Spicehaus menu before&#8230; So, went for the same and got some Puttu to go with it as well&#8230; They arrived as shown in the pics below&#8230; First of all, lets talk about the Omelette&#8230; As per the menu, its [&hellip;]
- [Nissin Rich Seafood Curry Cup Noodles](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/03/07/nissin-rich-seafood-curry-cup-noodles/): Its been a while since I last reviewed an instant noodles option and the reason is that there is no point in reviewing the regular run of the mill stuff which everyone already knows about, right?? This time however, I found a new product which I had been hoping to get for quite some time but haven&#8217;t been able to find in the stores here so far&#8230; Its the Rich Seafood Curry Cup Noodles from Nissin as can be seen in the pic below&#8230; I think this would be the first time I saw a Seafood based instant noodles here&#8230; From [&hellip;]
- [Le Arabia: Hyderabadi Chicken Biriyani](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/03/05/le-arabia-hyderabadi-chicken-biriyani/): It was only yesterday that I had food ordered from the Le Arabia restaurant and turns out my parents wanted to order what they had again cause they loved what they had and wanted it again&#8230; This time however, instead of the grilled Chicken option, I went for their Biriyani and chose their Hyderabadi Chicken Biriyani&#8230; Now, I must say that have had the so called Hyderabadi Biriyani from Le Arabia many times before and quite frankly, I never liked it cause all that I could taste were the extreme heat from the chillies as is the case with many places [&hellip;]
- [Le Arabia: Al Faham After A Long Time](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/03/04/le-arabia-al-faham-after-a-long-time/): Today again, my parents decided to order in lunch and turns out both of them were actually craving for some Falooda primarily and among the various options for the same thats in our nearby area of Kazhakuttom, the one from Le Arabia is whats their favourite&#8230; So, we ordered our lunch from there&#8230; While my parents had the Falooda, I on the other hand got reminded that its been a very long time since I had an Al Faham Chicken and from what I remember, I used to like the one they serve at Le Arabia as well&#8230; So, thats what [&hellip;]
- [Aalimo: An Asian Lunch - The First Impression](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/03/01/aalimo-an-asian-lunch-the-first-impression/): I had been hearing about this new restaurant in Kazhakuttom called Aalimo for quite some time with quite a number of people praising their food in social networks&#8230; The restaurant is located near Technopark and said to be a Multi-Cuisine restaurant, but from what I heard, they specialise in Asian Cuisine&#8230; I have been hoping to have the opportunity to try their food for a while now and finally, I got to do the same today since me and mom decided to give it a try and order our lunch from there&#8230; That being said, we weren&#8217;t in a mood to [&hellip;]
- [Venkadesa Bhavan: Classic South Indian Vegetarian Cuisine](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/02/20/venkadesa-bhavan-classic-south-indian-vegetarian-cuisine/): Yesterday, my parents ended up going to West Fort area early in the morning and based on my suggestion, stopped by this old and very famous restaurant in Trivandrum called Venkadesa Bhavan, near West Nada of the Padmanabhaswamy Temple&#8230; The place has been famous for a very long time for their Classic South Indian Vegetarian Cuisine, and are especially famous for Tamil Brahmin delicacies and is considered to be the best restaurant to have food from that Cuisine in Trivandrum&#8230; So, we had a few of our favourites as takeaway today and this post is about the same 🙂 So, lets [&hellip;]
- [Kothy Restaurant: Fish Lunch Day](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/02/17/kothy-restaurant-fish-lunch-day/): So, it was yet another day on which both me and my dad were craving to have some Fish along with Rice, which was already available at home for lunch&#8230; Plus, we had some leftover Fish Curry gravy as well which pretty much added to the craving&#8230; So, found a place that I haven&#8217;t seen in a long time in the food delivery apps and this place is called Kothy Restaurant which according to my &#8220;dark web research&#8221;, is located at Poundukadavu, which is not too far from my place&#8230; So, ordered two portions each of their Meen Peera and Netholi [&hellip;]
- [Hotel Safa: The Chicken Curry](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/02/09/hotel-safa-the-chicken-curry/): Today yet again, my parents decided to buy food for breakfast before I woke up and since my dad went for his walk early in the morning, he brought over food from our beloved Hotel Safa which is situated along his route&#8230; As mentioned before in my previous post, as always, Porotta was the main item but this time we got their Chicken Curry, which was something I had been missing for a long time as they had not been making it in the morning ever since the Corona situation started&#8230; So, it was indeed a pleasant surprise to see it [&hellip;]
- [Vasanta Bhavan: Breakfast Spread](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/02/06/vasanta-bhavan-breakfast-spread/): After having enjoyed the Parcel Meals from Vasanta Bhavan restaurant, I decided to go for trying them again when my parents asked me to order in food for breakfast today&#8230; So, ordered a few of the items from their Breakfast menu and turned out to be bit of a Kerala-Tamil fusion spread as can be seen from the pics below&#8230; 🙂 So, lets start with the Kerala side of the table&#8230; Here as shown in the pics below, we have the quintessential Puttu-Kadala combo consisting of the White Rice Puttu (steamed Rice Cakes) and the Kadala Curry which is the Kerala [&hellip;]
- [Al Baike Fried Chicken](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/02/01/al-baike-fried-chicken/): Felt like having some good old American style fried Chicken and over the past few months, I had been trying various local brands who do that crispy Cornmeal / Corn Flakes coated Fried Chicken instead of the most popular KFC and this post is where I am talking about my favourite one among the bunch&#8230; Its called Al Baike Fried Chicken and they are located in the Kulathoor area near Kazhakuttom&#8230; The reason I decided to try this place in the first place is cause it was recommended by a friend of mine who assured me that the taste is better [&hellip;]
- [Vasanta Bhavan: A Naadan Vegetarian Meal](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/01/21/vasanta-bhavan-a-naadan-vegetarian-meal/): Today my mom and I decided to buy food for lunch and as we were browsing the options, a new name that began to show up in the app recently showed up called &#8220;Vasanta Bhavan&#8221;&#8230; The restaurant is apparently located near Pallinada, along that old road parallel to the highway, in Kazhakuttom&#8230; We decided to check out their food for two reasons: it was mentioned to be a vegetarian restaurant and also, I have been getting requests recently to cover more good vegetarian food options here&#8230; So, the following pic shows the food as delivered and here we are 🙂 The [&hellip;]
- [Spice Trail By Avoki: The First Time - Rice and Noodle Bowls For Lunch](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/01/18/spice-trail-by-avoki-the-first-time-rice-and-noodle-bowls-for-lunch/): Today, when searching for options of food to buy for lunch here, I stumbled upon a new name called &#8220;Spice Trail by Avoki&#8221;&#8230; When I checked the menu, it was a surprise cause their entire menu consists of Rice/Noodles bowls and of-course the pics shown seemed promising&#8230; So, decided to place order cause I have always been a fan of Asian noodle and rice bowls from having had a few before outside Kerala and also from seeing the numerous food shows online&#8230; 🙂 So, placed the order for all 3 of us and the food was delivered as shown in the [&hellip;]
- [Flamingo Inn: Chettinadu Biriyani](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/01/14/flamingo-inn-chettinadu-biriyani/): Today, I went out for some shopping with my parents and after we came back, we were all too tired and so we decided to buy lunch&#8230; As I was checking for options, Purple Circuit, the restaurant of Flaming Inn, from which we bought the North Indian Combo that we loved last time showed up and without any further doubt, we decided to buy the North Indian Combo again (pretty much exactly like last time and hence not going to talk about here) and for me, I chose their Chettinadu Fish Biriyani and I don&#8217;t think I have seen a Chettinadu [&hellip;]
- [Breakfast Of Local Staples From Hotel Safa, Kaniyapuram](https://imperfectpost.com/2021/01/12/breakfast-of-local-staples-from-hotel-safa-kaniyapuram/): So, yet another day my parents decided to buy breakfast and this time its from our favourite spot thats local to our neighbourhood as in, literally at walking distance from my home along the route of my dad&#8217;s usual walk in the morning&#8230; This is also the only place that opens as early as 6 am here and so, like many times before we got what was available early in the morning&#8230; The reason I didn&#8217;t write the review so far is cause the place never had a name and the board just said Hotel&#8230; However, turns out recently they named [&hellip;]
- [Cake With Royal Icing After A Long Time](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/12/31/cake-with-royal-icing-after-a-long-time/): Christmas &#8211; New Year is definitely a time for cakes for any foodie&#8230; Among the cakes, my favourite from childhood has always been the Plum/Fruit Cake with Royal Icing on top&#8230; Mambally&#8217;s Bakery in Thalassery and their own Santha Bakery in Trivandrum has been our goto place for the same cake for decades&#8230; However, for some reason, even though we can still get good Plum Cakes, the availability of good Royal Icing with it, somehow appeared to simply vanish from the face of Trivandrum many years ago and ever since we have never been able to get the same&#8230; The last [&hellip;]
- [Goodness Restaurant: Fish Two Ways](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/12/20/goodness-restaurant-fish-two-ways/): A few days ago, when my mom announced that its going to be rice today for lunch, my dad got this idea of buying some Fish Fry and Curry and as always, I was tasked with locating and procuring the same for both of us to enjoy&#8230; So, as I searched in the app, I found Goodness Restaurant which is a restaurant thats near Vetturoad junction at the border of Kazhakuttom thats at walkable distance from my home and the menu had some seafood items&#8230; Both of us ended up liking the Tuna Fry (posted here) that we tried and thats [&hellip;]
- [Flamingo Inn: North Indian Veg Combo With Butter Chicken Masala From Purple Circuit Restaurant](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/12/14/flamingo-inn-north-indian-veg-combo-with-butter-chicken-masala-from-purple-circuit-restaurant/): For quite a while, me and my mom had been looking for a good North Indian Thali option in Trivandrum&#8230; Sadly, we have been unable to find one and if any of the readers here know of one, please do let me know in the comment section&#8230; Anyways, today while looking thru options to buy food for lunch, I came across the Purple Circuit restaurant which is a restaurant thats a part of the Flamingo Inn which I have visited before long time ago and they appeared to have these Combos for 2 options and one of them ie, the North [&hellip;]
- [Zam Zam Restaurant: Two Chicken Soups, Salad And More Chicken](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/12/11/zam-zam-restaurant-two-chicken-soups-salad-and-more-chicken/): Today was a day my parents decided to buy food for lunch and as usual, I was in-charge of figuring out what to order for home delivery&#8230; So, today I decided to try from the Zam Zam Restaurant at Kulathoor near Kazhakuttom, a place which I never had the opportunity to visit as by the time I could come around to it, the Covid-19 situation started&#8230; Ever since the pandemic season started, me and my parents pretty much developed a new habit where we end up having low carb meals once in a while where when we buy food from outside, [&hellip;]
- [Mamma Rosa: The Vegetarian Lasagne](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/12/07/mamma-rosa-the-vegetarian-lasagne/): After having the Chicken Lasagne made by the home-chef and friend Sanda Doina Toma, I obviously couldn&#8217;t resist when I saw a post by her yesterday where she has announced the name of her venture as Mamma Rosa and also mentioned the availability of a vegetarian version of the Lasagne&#8230; It peaked my interest especially since last time, my mom being a vegetarian couldn&#8217;t taste the Lasagne and so I decided to get one for her&#8230; So, yesterday I placed the order for today and Sanda herself did the delivery and the following pics show what I received&#8230; 🙂 For those [&hellip;]
- [Eat By Citrine: The First Impression](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/12/04/eat-by-citrine-the-first-impression/): So, today again, my parents and I decided to order in food for our lunch and turned out the place we intended to buy from was closed today and so as we were looking for other options in the app, this new name popped up that caught my attention and that was the &#8220;Eat By Citrine&#8221; restaurant&#8230; The app said that its located near Technopark but when the food arrived, the address written on the bag showed that it was in the Technovalley area&#8230; The menu here appeared to be mostly consisting of Naadan / Traditional Keralite food options with a [&hellip;]
- [A Birthday Special Spread](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/11/28/a-birthday-special-spread/): It was a very special occasion this time at home&#8230; Its my Dad&#8217;s birthday and not just any birthday cause its the big 70 or Sapthathi as we call it&#8230; Normally we would&#8217;ve planned to go out for dinner but because of the Covid season thats still going on and because of the risks involved, me and my mom decided to give him a treat at home and for that we decided to order in some special food and of-course being the foodie in the family, I was tasked with handling the entire operation 🙂 So, considering how much my parents [&hellip;]
- [Caffe Primo: Pesto Fried Fish with Mushroom Risotto and Sautéed English Veggies](https://imperfectpost.com/2020/11/25/caffe-primo-pesto-fried-fish-with-mushroom-risotto-and-sauteed-english-veggies/): So, we decided to have food from Caffe Primo again yesterday&#8230; My parents went for their usual and I went for the next item I wanted to try from their Continental Classics menu&#8230; Last time, as you may have read already, it was a platter having Prawns&#8230; This one is called &#8220;Pesto Fried Fish with Mushroom Risotto and Sautéed English Vegetables&#8221;&#8230; The pics I have included here shows what I got dumped onto my plate (once again, please excuse my untrained plating skills)&#8230; The Risotto and the vegetables were packed separately and the Fried Fish arrived coated with the Pesto as [&hellip;]

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