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| FOOD |
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Food is served in the main guest house, just near the office house, where dining tables are set on a verandah facing the garden. There Kurup, the chief cook attends to the needs of each guest with his, now legendary smile and care. Our charges include on the basis of 4 meals a day - breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner, 7 days a week, based on a fixed menu. The food is fresh and purely Kerala vegetarian and is always served on Banana leaves in the traditional style and eaten with your right hand (as are most of the actions of taking or giving). The cuisine is that of well-to-do Kerala families; tasty vegetarian food providing a completely balanced diet- carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals - essential nutriments in order to supply bodily needs and maintain the energy level necessary to cope with physical exertion in a tropical climate. |
| MENU |
| Breakfast - usually consists of Keralan delicacies like Iddellis, Dosas, Appam, Puttu, Idiappam, all made with rice flour and also Uppuma - broken wheat plus seasonal fruits like Pappaya, apples, orange, pineapples various bananas etc.. |
| Drinks: milk, tea and coffee |
| Lunch is based on whole rice and 4 or 5 vegetable 'curries'(green beans, spinach, potatoes, cabbage, various lentils, beetroot, carrots etc.) prepared in a number of ways, with various spices (curries are made milder for foreign taste). The meals are rounded off with a glass of fresh locally made Yoghurt or the sweet 'Payasam'. |
| Drinks: herbal water, fresh lime juice, tea/coffee |
| Tea consists of various salty or sweet confections made of whole wheat or other flours, vada, banana fry, potato bonda, chips, tapioca, fruits, cutlet etc…with tea/coffee. |
| Dinner offers a rotation of various pan cakes - chapathies, puris, Masala doshas, Porottas served with two vegetable curries and vegetable salad. |
| Drink: Lime juice, full milk, tea or coffee. |
| There are specific times for serving the food. |
| Breakfast
- 8 - 9 am, Lunch 1-2 pm, Tea 4-6 pm, dinner 7.30 - 8.30 pm But guests can always have a tea or coffee or lime juice at the mess. |
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Note that we do not serve at all, eggs, fish and
meat, which the guests may find in some restaurants in the nearby
towns. |
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No refund is given for meals not taken at the centre. |