Discovering Coconut rice

Delicious coconut rice for luncheon....

   This weekend I discovered a new delicacy namely  coconut rice… I travelled to Fort Kochi and found a moderate, clean restaurant called Mareena in Fort Kochi. I went upstairs to the comfortable seats on the first floor overlooking the splendid stretch of sea. I looked through the menu and found the dish Coconut rice and ordered it with butter chicken. The dish is prepared with fried thin slices of fresh coconut and served with the garnish of long slices of toasted coconut among the long grains of white rice. The quaint taste of sauted coconut and mild spices leave a lingering taste in the mouth of the rice eaters. The dish is a truly nice pick for lunch on hot sunny days.             

Coconut rice recipe

• Cook rice and cool completely.
• Heat ghee or oil in a pan, add cumin, mustard, dals and cashews. When the dal turns golden, green chili, curry leaves and dried red chili. Sprinkle hing.
• Toast the coconut. Add coconut, rice and salt. Off the heat. Stir all the ingredients and warm it. 
• Serve coconut rice with a curry or yogurt.
• Adding sauted pineapple pieces can also improve the taste easily.

                                 

Try the delicacy with buttered chicken or Chicken roast for a perfect lunch. 


Seated comfortably in the half open Mareena restaurant I truly enjoyed my weekend lunch tasting Coconut rice and alternatively glancing at the huge cargo ships and containers gliding along the surfing waves of the rough Arabian sea. 


This weekend lunch was a maritime experience of fresh flavours, new tastes and rich experience.  


Mareena restaurant is truly inexpensive and has plenty of delicacies waiting to be discovered by the shrewd and adventurous diners picking the breezy maritime restaurants for divine luncheon within the budget. Do not miss out on this restaurant while visiting Kochi, coastal Kerala.

ATM frauds are common now!

Choose safe banking...

ATM frauds are becoming increasingly common especially while there are a multitude of naïve card holders to be victimized. Police are already on alert about the frauds causing theft of large amount of cash. While the ATM users are increasing in India, the frauds are also multiplying. It is quite easy for the scammers to steal and cheat the confused new ATM card holders. Many of them are unaware of the different quick ways that the scammers and frauds can vandalize the funds of the innocent ATM card holders. Recently even in Kerala, Police nabbed gangsters indulging in ATM frauds and robbed the innocent natives using advanced devices. These scammers used spying devices to gain maximum information about the ATM cards of many persons and easily victimized them. 

ATM frauds are becoming the common crime while a large fraction of the population is using ATMs extensively for drawing money. The introduction of ATMs was welcomed eagerly by the urban population as they were elated at the convenience of procuring and transacting money. Even while the banks are not operating, the public could draw money whenever they required. Moreover, as the frequency of the ATMs increased, it was easily possible for the public to draw money wherever they are located or even while travelling. ATM kiosks became rampant across the length and breadth of India. Most public were delighted at the prospects of the development and found their country developing parallel to the Western countries while multiplying ATMs and shopping malls besides other necessary amenities. It became possible for the public to collect their cash even while the banks were not functioning, be it beyond their working hours or on holidays. The public could easily depend on the ATMs even during odd hours to draw money. 

ATM s soon became a necessity for the public to collect the cash as they required. Many started depositing large amount of cash in their account and drawing them through ATM debit cards for its security and convenience. While earlier carrying stacks of currency attracted crime, later the debit cards with high amount of cash attracted thefts and frauds. Earlier, it was difficult for other persons to know the amount of cash available in the ATM cards and this diverted crimes.

But later ATM scammers devised methods to trace the confidential information of the ATM cards and they easily started stealing the funds and victimizing innocent public. Now ATM users have to be very careful if they want to safely draw cash from their bank accounts.

Here are some precautions that can prevent ATM frauds.

 

·        Always keep your PIN number confidential.

·        Do not communicate your PIN to any other person

·        Do not write your PIN on the back of your card

·        Keep a track of your transactions

·        Inform the bank if there are deductions besides your withdrawal

·        Do not give your ATM cards to other persons

·        Carry your ATM cards with you always.

Enjoy Grand Circus

Watching Grand Circus

It was ages since I watched a circus till yesterday when I watched the Grand circus perform in Kochi. The entrance fee to the spectacular performance was almost nothing. Simply as the name the performance was grand. There were a host of unique events new to even the active circus spectators. The show started with the hilarious performance of the clowns. There were also a crowd of female performers impressing the audience with their agility and expertise in acrobatics. 

 

The grand circus was devoid of any even common in the circuses in fact, it had plenty of more unique events. In one such event the host started drinking jugs of water and other coloured liquids. Finally he poured out two jugs of different coloured liquid and amazed the crowd. I still wonder how he managed to drink all the water and yet fill the jugs from his mouth! Where did he store the water??

While enjoying the circus, I couldn’t stop wondering about the perils of the poor circus performers. Now while there are plenty of advanced forms of entertainment, these performers are easily sidelined and left to suffer in poverty. We should help the talented performers survive and appreciate their skills. We should give them equal opportunity to perform and express our interests in their art. Truly watching the circus enriched me with better culture and awareness besides the pleasures that this form of entertainment bestowed me with.

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