The three-day festival concludes on Tuesday Jan 14,2014 — the day Pongal will be celebrated.
Visitors who came to attend Pongal celebrations thronged
the ‘Amma Canteen’ stall and jostled for their serving of hot,
lip-smacking idlis along with usual accompaniments sambar and coconut
chutney.
While idli was the most sought-after dish on
the menu, there was also good demand for other items such as curd-rice
(priced at Rs.3 per plate), lemon-rice, curry leaves-rice and pongal — a
dish similar to the north Indian khichdi (for Rs.5 each).
The
low-cost delicacies sold like hot cakes with the stalls running out of
food before 8 p.m., nearly an hour before the scheduled closing time.
Till 7.30 p.m., nearly 2,200 servings of all items were dished out and the organisers raised a sum of Rs.7,200.
On bringing the canteen to the Capital temporarily, Principal Resident
Commissioner at Tamil Nadu House said: “Pongal is one of the main
festivals in Tamil Nadu and we celebrate it here as well. Each year, it
is our endeavour to showcase what is popular in Tamil Nadu
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