Chaos at Hannover and Barcoded Dinner

You are going to read about some great moments and the best vegetarian cuisine that I had outside India. This is not a part of the series “Summer in Hannover” but a special report on Onam at Dieckmanstrasse 5, Hannover arranged by Ajith and his friends in Germany.

I am so happy that my visit to AEI, Hannover coincide with their get together. I did not expect such a great program other than meeting many malayali friends all around Germany who are in the field of scientific research.

The program scheduled to be on Sunday, 16th of September. But it was not limited to one day since most of them came on Friday and Saturday to enjoy the whole weekend.

Saturday itself the house has become a small Kerala in the heart of Germany. All are speaking genuine Malayalam, I mean not talking malayalam with English accent.

However nobody is wasting even a single chance to show there expertise in German language. Some are managing to talk two three sentences in German. But I don’t think any German citizen can understand the German language of this ‘Mallu Germans’.

Let’s go to the kitchen. Ajith and Dr. Sajan managed to buy everything in the list provided by Dr. Gopan, a gifted cook from Mannar currently a researcher in Germany. We must appreciate Ajith and Sajan for their effort to locate and find the items mentioned in the list with the help of Wikipedia and English – German dictionary.

Gopan proved it is possible to make a full Kerala style sadya even in Europe. I tried my best to find at least a minor problem with the curry items he made, but it was an unsuccessful attempt. Yes, it was absolutely a perfect one.

This post will not be complete if we forget to mention Ajith, who made the rice, It is obvious that all the items of Gopan can be tasted well only if we have enough rice and that is the importance of Ajith here. However I dont know how could he arrange a barcode for the rice. This is the first time I am seeing a barcoded rice.

Last – I mean last because we have payasam at the end, it doesn’t mean last in its importance – but not least we have to thank Dhanya and Chitra who worked hard, may be harder than Gopan worked to make all other items, to make the tasty payasam. It was really awesome.

I would like to thank all behind this great get together and especially the one who arranged me a visit to Hannover exactly during this time. If you are a good organizer, you may arrange a get together like this but never a better one.