masala thosai, anyone?

In some countries, the "Park and Ride" scheme is quite popular. In a nutshell, it refers to a scheme where one drives one's car from home to a public carpark nearer to their office (but which is not within the vicinity of their office). After parking their car, they board a bus or a train and proceed to their office. This is popular with people who do not live very near their office and who find that the parking charges in their office vicinity are high.

Da and I have developed our own "Park and Ride" scheme. It all started as a suggestion by AJ (wife of UJ). Nowadays, we drive our car from home in the morning and park our car at the side road near my mother's home. From there, we walk a short distance to the bus stop and take a bus to work. As we work near each other other, we are able to take the same bus to work.

Naturally, along the way from our home to my mother's home, we encounter many food establishments that sell breakfast. We have been having fun eating at different food stalls each morning.

Our latest breakfast haunt? Well, near my mother's home is a hawker centre known as "Haig Road Food Centre". There is also a wet market adjoining the hawker centre.

Da was in two minds whether to order a mee rebus from the Muslim stall at the hawker centre for breakfast. I had already decided to order a masala thosai from the Indian Muslim stall. In the end, Da also ordered a masala thosai.

The difference between a plain thosai and a masala thosai is that for the masala thosai, there is a potato mixture (comprising potato, mustard seeds, curry leaves and onions) wrapped inside the thosai. Both the ingredients and the thosai itself are savoury. It is not spicy. However, the thosai is served with a few types of gravies which you can eat the thosai with. One of the gravies is usually dhal-based (which is not spicy and is my favourite).

What would complement a breakfast of masala thosai? Teh tarik and kopi tarik, of course!

As the locals would say.... sedap*!
(*Sedap is a Malay word which means "delicious".)