“Change, the shrewd manipulator…you never realize it sweeping through your life, unless one fine day, you delve into nostalgia, contemplating how drastically and yet subtly, an undercurrent of transfigurations and metamorphosis had tiptoed into your toiling existence.”
I scribbled in my journal, and shut it. While still being pretty occupied with speculations and introspections, I chose to just ponder over them. Though the grounds of such a grave reflection were menial, somewhat berserk.
It had been exactly a month since my ‘Brahmacharya’ days had started and the food, that is, the ‘DABBA’, had been driving me insane. “Some eat to live, while some live to eat”, they say. Well clearly, I had never had a passion for food, and had been more than complacent to fall under the former category.
But my days away from home had utterly transfigured me into a typical Indian Foodie. I would receive my dabba, hope for a satiating meal, open it with sparkling eyes, begin eating and the glimmer would just… vanish. “How great it would be to have a decent meal once in a while!”
“That’s it.”, I clamored. “I cannot be crazy enough to hanker for fine food in a city like Delhi.” It was obvious now that I would visit a fine eatery and hope to give my taste buds the treat of their lives. From under my closet, I pulled out a few pamphlets of restaurants that those people so yearningly attempt to hand in to the passers-by…yeah, we get the drift, don’t we?
Now came the predicament of nomination…Where to go? Having no clue of the eateries, I decided to go with the eternal ‘Akkad-Bakkad’ rule. So, the place was decided. But, what is a fine cuisine without friends, right? So, I invited my friends over.
“Your treat??”, they implored
“Oh, how sweet of you to think! ”, I said, loaded with sarcasm as I was.
And we headed towards our supposedly divine destination. It goes without saying, the eyes were all starry, beaming in anticipation of some delectable tucker. So full of vitality we all were, we didn’t even take a rickshaw (or as we ignorantly call them in this lovely city- ‘battery’). And so we arrived…the classic title board with a stunning LED illumination read ‘Punjabi By Nature’.
At this particular instant, I was ecstatic beyond demarcations. “I am gonna have the kind of food I have been longing for, for so long.” We entered and the ambience allured me in no time: fine seats, nice music and cheerful waiters. We placed the order, and oh, how my taste buds were exhilarated! While my friends gossiped amongst themselves, I waited in desperation.
Finally the moment arrived…the food was served and I took a bite to my awfully dribbling mouth. And it was then, that the anticlimax struck!
In lengths though I have been writing about the joy of anticipation, I fail to express in words the disappointment I experienced at that very moment. My friends gave me the look that they were all set to pull a pillow over my face in my sleep that very night. The food was pathetic( not to mention, unbelievably overpriced), and we returned disheartened to the eternal dabba. Even that tasted better in comparison.
After that, as I went about narrating that incident of disappointment to all my chums, just one of them came up with an advice, one that I regret not having had earlier. She told me how she found the right place to grab a bite in an alien land. And surprisingly enough, she made sense.
https://itunes.apple.com/IN/app/id916154166?mt=8&pt=Website-iOS-Download&ct=NONE
They cut through the clutter to give you a simple, tactile and efficient interface to get your favorite food home.
The OWL can detect where you are located or you can choose to type in a location, even when you are on the go!
Choose from the best restaurants with varied cuisines and price points in and around various areas of your city.
You get to pay either via cash, or if that is too much a hassle, via card- both Credit & Debit.
The app saves all of your orders and addresses, so you don’t have to type it anew each time.
Well, now I know…searching for a decent corner to eat isn’t child’s play…certainly not AKKAD-BAKKAD. But it’s something much simpler.
Well, now I could give my tastebuds the treat they had been longing for, anytime and without any hassle. As for you people, however fancy the idea of a food app sounds, just don’t risk it…
Look it up
Takhallus-e-Haqeeqat 