Going Veggie is such a pain on your taste buds but we forced ourselves into it, a great achievement. But I should confess that we break our oath once a week and go out for something that your taste buds were used to squirming onto. It’s the feast that we eagerly wait for and I should tell you it’s a quite a feast that we have on the day of the week when we break our oath. Here I am referring to Myself of course and my roomie Engineer Joyston D’Souza.
We went out on our WEEKLY feast last night… Joyston came back from church at around 9:30 p.m….. he was hesitant to ask but :
Joyston : Whats Plans for tonight darling
Siji : Nothing special had juice and planning to go to bed
Joyston : Hesitantly can we go for dinner (we were hesitant to ask because we were zero on cash in hand and both knew)
Siji : Sure but not in mess and we will go out to place where they accept debit or credit cards….
Joyston : Sure so letzzz scoot
We were perplexed on the place to go, various options came into our brain storming:
1. IBN Batuta Gate Hotels - New place and might be very expensive… will take you there for my bachelors party Joy…
2. J.Ali Gardens :
a. Curry & Noodles – Indian place nice food – already visited once
b. Saravana Bhojanalaya – Indian Place Veg Food – already numerous visits
c. Kababs Only – Paki Place ok ok kababs – already visited once
d. Appa Kadai – Indian place very good food nice variety of appams – already numerous visits
e. Urban Tadka – Indian place veg food not worth the expense – already visited once
f. That’s almost all restaurants in the J.Ali Gardens vicinity…. So this place stands cancelled.
3. Papa Johns – our favourite pizza place – Joy not in mood to eat pizza
4. Hardees – mostly steak burgers – siji being very religious avoids eating beef – and burgers was to be avoided due to health reasons.
5. Jumeirah Beach Residency (Dubai Marina Walk): We were left with no other options but to visit our most favourite place… Nice restaurants, nice views and nice babes…. This place is flooded with multicultural, multilingual, multiethnic, multinational restaurants… which would again create lot of doubt in your mind making you wonder which one to visit…. Atlast narrowing down on our options while brain storming we chose to go to “KABABJI” which we thought was a Indian cuisine restaurant however turned out to be Lebanese place….
KABABJI….
Unintentionally we landed in this Lebanese restaurant and was welcomed by the receptionist in his flamboyant way of greeting guests in Arabic…. Expressions :
Siji : Mouth wide open did not know what to say, had this confused look (not because he was greeting us in arabic but because what made him feel that we are ARABS)
Joyston : “MAAFI ARABI HABIBI” “ENGLISH ENGLISH”…
Receptionist : Ok English English… “WALLA HABIBI MARHABA MARHABA”…
Ambience was really good and the balcony table and seats nicely arranged with an amazing view of Sea, seagulls, ATLANTIS lighted up at the horizon.. wonderful view.. I should have had my DSLR Rebel T1i with the Tripod and 75 – 300 mm Sigma…
We ordered :
1. Labanese style French Fries – Appetizer – AED 18/-
2. Mutton Ayaraas – Starter – AED 25/-
3. Half Special Kabajii Plater – AED 85/-
4. Labanese Laban – AED 24/-
5. Hammous with Bread – AED 25/-
6. Water – FOC
7. Tip – AED 10/-
We were trying to be FLAMBOYANT with our order to impress the LEBANESE and to earn the well-deserved respect for the INDIANS.. and achieved what we aimed for…. But the only problem was it was little too EXTRAVAGANT on my DEBIT CARD…..
