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| | an also ran : My Breakfast Table-mate, ixedoc blogs on sulekha, Creative blogs, ixedoc blog from india |
 | | Ondu uppittu anna (one plate of steam fried rice flour, spiced and salted, the uppittu or uppuma is an easily prepared but substantial breakfast item: cheap and tasty, it sits well in a hungry manâs stomach) |
 | | Uppittu over, the man, digs into his cavernous jubba pocket and retrieves a small steel tumbler and places it front of him, and no sooner has he finished, the waiter comes up and fills it with a jet of water which he pours from a spouted plastic jug. |
 | | I now know why the uppittu was served on a plate, but on a table top, and why the water was poured into the customers own utensil, instead of one from the hotel. |
| ixedoc.sulekha.com /blog/post/2005/11/my-breakfast-table-mate.htm (799 words) |
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