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Jun 04, 2007
Awesome soft idlies
This is one of the oldest restaurants in Chennai. Idly is its specialty. They are soft and melt as soon as they are in your mouth. No one can ever come close to its idlies. Not even Saravana Bhavan or Murugan Idly Shop. Saravana Bhavan is a little expensive and Murugan Idly Shop's Idlies look like plastic toys.
The hot idlies are served in an ocean of sambar. That is, the waiter will place the idly in your plate and pour the sambar into your plate from a jug until you say stop. They won't stop even if the sambar starts overflowing from your plate. So stop talking over your mobile phone while the waiter serves or you might just wet your pants with sambar.
It is said that the recipe for its idly is secret to the family of its owner / cook and that is why no one else is able to replicate such idlies.
A couple of years back they even constructed an AC hall on the first floor.
It is almost opposite to Murugan Idly shop, just across the signal.