out for lunch

i just got back from a very filling lunch at Andhra Bhawan. The South Indian canteen there is open to the public and is quite a demonstration of quality, cleanliness, economy and efficiency. Us 3 ladies were able to occupy a table with 3 other ladies and finished our meal in probably 15 minutes. it's hard not too eat fast bc there is so much activity-- diners continuously sitting and going and waiters keep whizzing with buckets to slop more food on your plate.

getting back was not so efficient for kelley unfortunuately. she had to go back to the embassy by herself (me and another girl were going towards Connaught Place), and here is her account:

I just got back to the embassy (2:35)! The rickshaw driver and his
little friend had no clue where the embassy was, or where any of the roads i
listed were (Shantipath, panscheel marg, aurangzeb rd, ashoka rd). so he
was asking a few people and i thought he was getting closer but then he
didn't follow their directions and i couldn't see any road signs, so i had
no idea where we were. then we were on pandera rd, which is pretty far i
think from where we were supposed to be and then when i saw the sign for
khan market i just got out. i walked down the road in the direction i
thought i should be going, and it turns out that was aurangzeb road by the
claridges so i went the right way on that for a while until i got to the
next roundabout and could confirm it (also passed jodhpur house). then i
wasn't sure when to turn off, and there were no rickshaws around. i finally
found one, but it didn't seem like he knew where the embassy was either.
then finally i found another one, but he didn't like my 25-30 rupee idea too
much. but i had no other option unless i wanted to walk all the way back and
finally we settled on 38 (how random). but he was actually a nice guy (about
50) and when i said yes in hindi he asked me how i knew hindi and how many
languages i knew, and it turns out he knows some french too...for as
ridiculous an experience as it turned out to be, it was kind of fun to talk
to him. plus i felt pretty good to be able to sort of know my way around
from where i got out of the first rickshaw.