Kodak Moments : Virtue of Magarpatta City

Some more captivating and charismatic pictures of Magarpatta City.

You can find few more pictures in my below previous posts:

https://xylo742.blogspot.in/2015/05/camera-ready-beauty-of-magarapatta.html

https://xylo742.blogspot.in/2015/09/camera-ready-beauty-of-magarpatta-city.html

 

Cheers to life!!

~Believe in yourself always!

P.S. All the above photos have been clicked by me. :D

Outlook : Add like button for your post in blogger blogging site!

Random days and random ideas - suddenly it crept up to me isn't it possible for to have like buttons on my posts in my blog page. I want to believe that lot of people read my blogs😎 - but since my blog is associated with my google+ account, there is not much a person without google profile could do, which I know is rare in this time.

Yet it just gives me a reason to enhance my blog - also I don't know this like button will serve me for the better or worse but with this current age of internet - it doesn't take more than a minute to track down something you want to add to.

So my hunt will be put to words here :

Go to Templates -> Edit HTML

Click on Jump to widget -> Blog1

Find this tag : includable id='post' var='post'
Next find this tag : <data:post.body/>

Place this code after all occurrences of  <data:post.body/> which will create the like button after every post.
<data:post.body/>
<!--below is the code generated for the like button-->
<!-- LikeBtn.com BEGIN -->
    <span class='likebtn-wrapper' expr:data-identifier='data:post.id'/>
    <script>(function(d,e,s){if(d.getElementById(&quot;likebtn_wjs&quot;))return;a=d.createElement(e);m=d.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];a.async=1;a.id=&quot;likebtn_wjs&quot;;a.src=s;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)})(document,&quot;script&quot;,&quot;//w.likebtn.com/js/w/widget.js&quot;);</script>
<!-- LikeBtn.com END -->

Click on Save Template and view your blog having the like/dislike button at the end of each post:

Cheers to life!!

~Believe in yourself always!!

Food anatomization : Balaji Snacks, Magarpatta City - Pune

The goto place for early morning breakfast or curbing your junkie food eating radar. Located in the back alleys of Destination Center - you would find devious amount of crowd near the place.

They have the kitchen inside the shop, where you spot the samosas, kachoris, gulab jamuns, poha, wada pav,jalebis being freshly made and served to the customers.

Never a fan of poha - but I have always eaten it to curb my morning hunger pangs. 😈
I have always adorned totally the SAMOSAS and the JALEBIS - always my spot for the weekend snack grabbing place. Jalebis - crunchy and sweet to the right amount. And the SAMOSAS with the crispy edges and wondrous potato filling - just perfect to go with a piping hot kullad wali chai.
Need not ask for more to satiate your taste buds with the street food items.

Don't expect an epitome of cleanliness around.

Pictures:

~Bon Appétit!!


P.S All the pictures have been taken by me. J

Food anatomization : Hotel Royal Park Plaza, Rameswaram

After we were done with our darshan and out little wandering stunt at the Pamban Beach - we were in dire hunt of a restaurant that could serve us lunch at around 12-ish.

And finally Hotel Royal Park Plaza came to our rescue.

It is a hotel with an in house restaurant. The interiors were quite traditional, The Ram-Sita statues with the Shiv linga - the story of the foundation of Rameswaram. There were the lamps placed beautifully in the reception with flower decoration. The wall bore a painting from a courtroom - with dancers and musician.

The restaurant houses about 8-10 tables. There was a beautiful aquarium - always happens to cheers me up. The interiors have been done in shades of blue - dimly lighted and comfortable. I loved the wooden textured blinds on the windows.

They were still setting up for the buffet, so we ordered for the Thali and for the food that was served - it was damn expensive.
There were couple of items like the ALU SABJI,PONGAL,RASAM,SAMBHAR, PAPAD,BOWL FULL OF RICE,PAYASAM, PARATHA,CURD. The food tasted about so-so. There was salt missing in almost every item.

Few pictures from the visit:

~Bon Appétit!!

Food anatomization : Denny's, Town Center - Champaign

After a tiring day of shopping through all the Thanksgiving sale - this was one of the few places which was open for dining in.

The place is like most of the casual dining places in the states - sofa seating with an ability of accommodating more than 40 or more odd people. The walls were beautifully decorated with a number of wall posters of simple objects or figure and seemed really interesting. The wall posters were evenly distributed over the walls. They have the TVs mounted at each corner playing some matches or videos.

They have a dedicated games area for the kids. :)

Hungry yet confused - I jumped into the GRILLED CHICKEN. Their menu was vast - you could easily get lost between what you want to eat and what you would want to order. 😜
They serve American food, omlettes,pancakes,grilled food and more.

Started with the GRILLED CHICKEN - 2 pieces of grilled seasoned chicken breasts served with loads of zucchini and hash browns.
Now the concept of hash browns is very common here - they are the pan-fried wonders made from the grated & shredded potatoes in the style of a Swiss Rosti. It was an interesting side and I enjoyed it thoroughly with my grilled chicken piece.The grilled chicken breast pieces when combined with the fresh sauteed zucchinis and a bite of the hash brown seemed really perfect until - until it got cold, the chicken pieces seemed tad bit dry and got little tough to bite onto - a little some seasoning to hold onto the moisture of the chicken pieces would have been the savior. Actually both the mains and sides were dry dishes.

The BUTTERMILK PANCAKES - fluffy pancakes with a generous dose of maple syrup, heavenly!

The service was good - albeit there was a little mix up with the dishes but the server rectified at the earliest. We had to wait for quite some time for our food - they were running very busy that day.

Few pictures from the visit:

Grilled chicken with zucchini

Vegetable burger with patty and french fries

Vegetable burger with patty and broccoli

Fish skillets with french fries and hash browns

Pancakes

~Bon Appétit!!

P.S. All the above photos have been clicked by me J