14 Pots of Biryani!

When the friends called for a table to gather for 'The Great Indian Biryani Festival' at The Line, we did. Well, it's a buffet, so we should be ready to eat. Unfortunately none of us could do lunch, so it had to be dinner. We were like, how to sleep after ingesting this much carbs!

I steeled my stomach for the onslaught of carbs. There were 14 pots of biryani laid out! From each region, there were two biryani presented — a meat and a vegetarian. Woah. There were some good ones and some middling versions. I didn't mind this buffet as a whole; otherwise I would have to get out there to different restaurants to get the various versions I would like to try. 

I skipped all the Lucknowi chicken biryani, and took the lamb biryani instead. I loved the Kolkata pumpkin and potato biryani, and the Beary black chickpea biryani. Unfortunately the Malabar prawn biryani wasn't as flavorful as I had expected. There was also a quite a delicious Dindigul mutton biryani done in Tamil Nadu style. The Ambur jackfruit biryani was tasty too. That goat biryani was described as 'Kolkata Aloo, Egg and Goat', but of course people took all the goat and left the aloo and egg. I felt like taking a marker to cross out the 'goat' on the tag. Hahahaha. 

The dal makhani and bhindi masala were okay, not as delicious as I had hoped. But everything else was tasty. I liked the vegetarian kofta. I skipped the green pea aloo tikki. NO TO PEAS. There was an appam station! Wheeeeee. But the appam wasn't crispy enough. Ah well, at least the flour mix tasted fine. They offered some sugar things to go along. No thanks. I do appam savory. I eat it with something-masala.

We were disciplined and didn't do any sort of alcohol. Not when we have an early start in the morning. And I have a gym class to stay sober for. I stuck to water. The mango lassi and fruit punch at the side were rubbish. I ditched them after a sip.