The peculiar northern habit of serving gulab jamun or gajjar ka halwa with vanilla icecream has also caught on here, but recently, after the mounds of rice-sambar, rice-rasam, curd-rice, and mysore pak, there was butterscotch icecream as well as basundi!
Recently, after I blessed the bridal couple, handed over the gift and burped after the oota, I accepted the “return gift” of a coconut with a South Indian paan, known as beeda. But at the flower-bedecked gateway on my way out, I spotted a paanwala dishing out paans of all shapes and sizes — lucknowi, banarasi or magai. You could take your pick!
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