Order meals in retro tiffin carriers at these old-school Chennai restaurants
The Hindu
Join the queue of customers flaunting retro stainless steel tiffin carriers at restaurants, as lockdowns force us to slow down and rethink patterns of consumption
“There is sambar, vathakozhhumbu, rasam, kootu...,” says R Ballaya, the waiter, in a practised monotone. Smoothly putting my stainless steel tiffin carrier together, he continues “Here is the the poori, pachadi and dal with ghee. In this thooku, I have kept rice; here is the curd, pickle, the badusha sweet, appalam and two beedas. And here are two banana leaves.”
It is all arranged snugly in my basket: a hefty five-tier stainless steel tiffin carrier, two medium thookus (stainless steel cans with long handles), three small stainless steel containers, an appalam in a brown paper bag and a roll of banana leaves.