Decadence

The lassi from heaven. Or is it hell?

Last week as we went out to get some supplies for the lab at work, we stopped by this dinky-looking restaurant very close to work. The place looks like it serves only milk products - plain milk, lassi, ice cream etc. Apparently this place is quite famous and the guys wanted me to try this item called "Lassi, Double Malai". Malai (మీగడ) is basically cream. The stuff you get when you churn unhomogenized milk; the stuff that when you melt in a pan you get ghee.) Except this is fresh, thick, greasy cream. The stuff I can imagine Lord Krishna craving for as a kid. As fatty as you can imagine. They add two spoonfuls of this (funnily enough, the menu doesn't have a "Lassi, Single Malai") stuff to the already sweet, thick lassi. This is the equivalent of one of those enormous burgers you get at BK or McD's - it looks like it could give you a heart attack just by looking at it.

On the other hand, it's sooo good. So decadent. Even if you got a heartattack from having this stuff, you'll die with a smile on your face. They serve it to you in simple steel glass with a spoon in it. It can't be more than a 100ml of liquid in there. You dig into the malai and lick the spoon clean. Sometimes by the time you finish the malai, there's hardly any lassi left. That's how much the ratio of malai to lassi is.

If you want to be jealous of one item of food I'm eating here, this has to be it.