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About Idlis and Sambhar

We went to Dosai Place today. A nice Indian Vegetarian restaurant in Santa Clara. It wasn’t our first time, and I have always been pleased with their dishes. Tonight, hubby and me decided to go for idlis. Yes, we have been quite stressed through the week, and when we are stressed, we eat. Eat something utterly simple, filling and delicious. What better than idlis. Now, Dosai Place has 4 different idli items on their menu. One’s a simple 3 idlis thing. The other’s Vijaywada idli, basically idlis soaked in ghee, and then they have the Ghee Sambhar idli, which is mini idlis swimming in a bowl of ghee sambhar. The last one is Kanjeevaram Idli, which is idlis with nuts or something like that. Four choices in Idlis is quite a variety. But hubby insisted he was going to ask for something not in the menu. He wanted idlis (the big ones) soaked in sambhar, instead of sambhar as a side. They refused. No matter how much hubby insisted, they plainly refused. They suggested they would provide us wit