My offering for this day - a re-creation of expensive nights in a cheap restaurant (the nights were very long!) - the ever-brilliant Cafe Mahesh, off P M Road, Fort, Bombay.
To drink:
1 bucket of ice
1 bottle of Old Monk Rum (the finest dark rum in the world, and arguably the finest spirituous liquor in the world)
Steady supply of Thums Ups (almost sickeningly sweet indigenous Indian cola, but somehow perfect with Old Monk)
Keep drinking whilst...
Enjoying Mahesh's famous fish fry - one of the best mid/low-price restaurants in Bombay for seafood.
Since it is not possible to actually bring the spicy masalas of Mahesh to London, I shall settle for - carefully hoarded bottle of Old Monk, cold Coke (no Thums Up here either, alas) and trad Brit fare. Have already started day with fry-up (two rashers bacon, fried toms, beans, fried egg, toast with lashings of butter, marmalade and jam) and will close with fish and chips (and don't you Kiwis say its soggy!)
cheer
the shunshine hic warrior
