February 27, 2005

At the 'Injun' festival

We reached there at about 2:15pm. We left at nearly 4:30. Most of that time was spent in a line. The food line....

We arrived to find throngs of people streaming in and out of Club India on Lady Musgrave Road, opposite the Flea Market. The first step in the process was to join the ticket line. There we waited for a bit, because they had only one person taking money and dishing out tickets.

Then we hear the bad news......

"The curry mutton will be ready in two hours, the chicken in one hour" !!!!!!!!!!!! Ok, we really want this food lemme tell ya, so while all the other people were coming back for refunds "I'm sorry, I can't wait two hours....", that was NEVER on our minds.

Proceeded to the food station. There were ladies,.... 'injun', chinese, negro....rolling out the dough, flipping rotis, rolling out the dough, flipping rotis. Plain roti, dahl roti, aloo roti (potato-filled roti). We asked if we could get. She pointed to the food station next door. No problem.

In the sweltering heat, the line moved a centimetre per half hour. This was exacerbated by the people who decided they weren't to wait, and had skipped. We watched several pans with curry chicken come and finish, and we still hadn't moved much. Eventually we were there.

It took a lot of haggling and shouting at the ladies serving, but eventually we took home...

12 roti skins (1 with dahl, the rest plain)
7 portions of curry chicken (we didn't think it was adequate, but for J$100 each....why complain)
4 portions curry potato
2 portions aloo choka (potato with saltfish and a whole heapa seasonings)

The taste was great....just not enough. In true Yamfoot Family Fashion, we told the organizers how they might improve it for next time. Hope they listen, and as I told one gentleman, don't wait another year to have one!

Posted by yamfoot at February 27, 2005 07:00 PM
Comments

Bwoy Mich, I'm sure you would love the Bayside Cafe over here... when you take a little cruise and stop over in Grand Cayman, make sure you are hungry and go to Bayside... you'll thank me, really!

Posted by: Mad Bull at February 28, 2005 07:57 PM

I'll put it on my list of places to visit. Mi love di injun food bad bad. I have a friend who was at University in the UK with me who is Indian, and she can't cook to save her life (she readily admits this!) We're still friends though.

At university in Nassau it was the same thing. Had an Indian friend from Trinidad who could not cook Indian food. It was a Negro from Trinidad who used to make all the dahl rotis and curry we had. Finger licking good.

Every Wednesday I think it was, the restaurant at the hotel I worked at used to have an Indian buffet. Yummy food.

Posted by: Michelle at March 1, 2005 06:57 PM