Thursday, 31 July 2014

Chennai Dosa in South Croydon, Surrey

The Meal

Chilli massala dosa
Channa massala
Bottle of coke

The Experience

This place provides an incredible blend of proper south indian cuisine with mind bendingly low prices.  £2.60 for a chilli massala dosa with vegetable gravy, coconut chutney and some other crazy shit I'm not sure the name of?  Yes blud.

This mikey house has a large range of starters and loads of different mains you've never heard of, such as idly and these fried doughnut things I can't remember the name of.  And tbe best thing is you will be the only honky in tbe house.  Virtually all the clientelle are local Sri Lankans and Southern Indians.

The experience is so good it makes my mind wander into an exotic land I can't remember the name of.  Maybe it has no name, maybe it's name is simply mitch.  As the dosa is consumed by hand, I see see Bengal tigers flash before my eyes, I see Royal elephants of the Raj.  But these creatures have a fear in their eyes, they know something is out there in the bush, watching them, waiting to pounce and end their monopoly of stodgy tikkas, kurmas and crap nans. Even the modernized mikey joints of quake in their boots, knowing the dosa is coming to slit their hroats.

Food - 4.34/5
Atmosphere - 4.2/5
Honky factor - 0/5

Architectural style - Miami neon deco, due to the intense purple plastics and neon UV lighting inside.