Madurai idly kadai — Restaurant in Tamil Nadu

Madhurai

CUISINES

Indian

SPECIAL DIETS

Vegetarian Friendly, Vegan Options

MEALS

Breakfast, Lunch,...

ancient Indian works. Vaddaradhane, a 920 CE Kannada language work by Shivakotiacharyamentions "iddalige", prepared only from a black grambatter. Chavundaraya II, the author of the earliest available Kannada encyclopaedia, Lokopakara(c. 1025 CE), describes the preparation of this food by soaking black gram in buttermilk, ground to a fine paste, and mixed with the clear water of curd and spices.[1] The Western Chalukya king and scholar Someshwara III, reigning in the area now called Karnataka, included an idli recipe in his encyclopedia, Manasollasa (1130 CE). This Sanskrit-language work describes the food as iḍḍarikā. In Karnataka, the Idli in 1235 CE is described as being 'light, like coins of high value', which is not suggestive of a rice base.[2]The food prepared using this recipe is now called uddina...

Not an awesome place from what I can tell from my experience. We went there to have breakfast at 7am. They said they only had idly or pongal, already a lack of options. Anyways my mom and my brother bought idly and I chose pongal. After eating the idly they said it tasted like it was not fermented long enough, and the sambar wasn't savoury either. The pongal that I had seemed to be premade and they just microwaved it and gave us. After tasting it, it felt too greasy, realising that they used too much of dalda. Then the tea and coffee that we ordered was also not good because it was very sweet. Overall had a...