So I am back in London for a conference. This time I am hoping to catch some leisure activities that I didn’t last time what with the intense focus on furniture buying. I might still pay a visit to the John Lewis furniture floor. As I was joking to a colleague the other day, it’s probably going to be a Mecca of sorts for me ;) But I have very few days and there are too many things to do in London. It is not even a full day 1 today and I have already visited Drummond Street.

I did not know of the existence of this Indian food street. It seems to me that where I stay usually tends to influence some of the places I see; some, not all because mostly one goes to the centre wherever one might be staying. Last time I was in Fulham and I did catch a bit of Kensington, Chelsea, King’s road etc that I have never done before. This time I am right opposite Euston and this Drummond Street happens to be right around the corner. I suppose if I was in Fulham I would have had to schedule the street around other things in this direction, but I could just walk down today when I was too tired to do anything else. I was rewarded. This is the first time after getting back from home that I have had “chaat”. Chaat is more of a North Indian category though having grown up in Mumbai where you get pretty much everything, a bit like London, I enjoy chaat once in a while. I had a samosa chaat and a sev puri. See the linked pics because it is very hard to explain what they are! Might seem like a lot for one sitting and it was ;) I felt like a thirsty man in a desert who suddenly came upon a well… hehe…

I am really looking forward to trying out South Indian food which is my traditional food… more so because there are absolutely no South Indian restaurants in Lancaster. Sort of strange really but maybe there isn’t a large enough South Indian community. I sorely miss my food obviously… in a way I end up having it only once a year, if you discount the stuff I make at home, which is pretty bare bones :(

Other than food there’s just one more fixed thing on my list. I have been meaning to catch a West End musical in forever but somehow not happened… until the upcoming Saturday. Moulin Rouge it is :)