Are you crazy is what people would tell, if I say am going to consult how to taste Dosa. I remember one of a customer side replied my email mentioning "dont preach the choir" I wasn't aware what that means and my colegue here had understood the situation and handled it very nicely.
My dad always like to have a cup of cofee after a tiffen. Tow conditions, it should be a tiffin - not if it a full meals - and most likely if it is in a restaurant. I have seen this all the time. After finish of the food (which is usally any south indian tiffin like some dosa, or parota and items like that) he would ask if somebody is willing to share a cofee with him. 90% of the time it would be yes from my side. I havent seen anytime when my sis or bro had opted for a cofee or sahring it. Best part is my mum, who would say she needs a tea (and my dad at times silently ignores that comment :) . I dont know where she started having the habit of tea - its just not our type. For sometime me and my sister used to pull her leg saying - she is trying to be over-modest and to save some money for my dad - which my mum alway reject saynig T is relatively good. Even am not a great fan of T.
More frequently than not I have my memory of this incident happening in coimbatore. Every time we were about to catch a bus to tirupur in Gandhipuram, we usually have some light tiffin in Gowri-Krishna. This is one of the nice place to have a quick food when you are in a hurry. I do like to have cofee after tiffin. But I usually stick to a traditional south-indian. May be a dosa-item or a pongal or vada, while my dad is the one always tries somethig "new". Well, what new can it be other than either paniyaram of a idiyappam and then with a chappati. I hate eating chappati outside and especially in a south indian rest. You ask for tandoo-roti,rumali-roti, naan, pulca, kulcha all of them means Chappati in a usual southinidan rest. This is not always true, but in some small places in our area this is the case. I like my dad's taste of sipping a sweet and light cofee when the spice of the tiffin in still present in your tounge. As a matter of fact the taste of spice will be nicely elated by the sweet cofee. I love that.
But I latter improvised this and have a better version of sipping cofee. Againg this is suggested only with the plain Dosa.I like doing this usally with a crispy and thick dosa. ohh..wait a minute ..are we sensing any oxymoron here..how can you get a dosa which is crispy and thick.
This is the part where I have to say Shanti-sagar wins over the sharavana-bhavan's in plain dosa. And this is applicable only for this context and in all others SB is no far higher for Sagar's reach. (Afterall I dont want to restart cauvery issue again here.) I personally don't like dosas which are very fragile for the sake of being crisp.If you get a chance try simple-plain-dosa in Shanti-sagar, koramangala - next to the koramagnala club. The first bite of it you feel the crispness and then the thickness part.I usally get a plain dosa and a light coffee (this is my taste).Dip a piece of Dosa in spicy cocobut-chutney and then the watery-sambar and start chewing it slowy really slowly. And while you are halfway thru sip the light-and-hot coffee a bit. Now at this instant you will have the dosa, probably on the side of your inner chin and a bit-cofee - sweet that is acutally soothiing the slightest-fire-casused-by-the-chutney. And I like this combination when it is drizzling out in Bangalore.
In my personnel experience I always finish a full cup of cofee just for 75% of dosa, while I could jsut have only 40% of the cup if I were having just-coffee or coffee after dosa.
Note: As an attempt of improvising this furhter dont try this with anything other than plain dosa , say idli , roti.I have already tried !!!
