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Named after the famous lake

in Kerala, Vembanad is afine dining restaurant thatclaims to specialise insouthern seafood cuisine,

hough the coastal slant isnt in the menu, the focus isy on Kerala dishes. Whilearguably a good hook, whatit is the inordinate amount

me taken to serve the food! Ohwould be an apt expression forxperience.

SIS: Vembanad is part of TheHotel, a luxury five-star hotele Intermediate Ring Road. Therant started operations oner 8, and is planning to expand

enu with other coastal cuisinens soon.

SIGNATURE DISH: The MeenNirachathu, (fish) NjanduKurumulaguittathu (crab) amongothers.

COST: We Malayalis would pro-nounce it coastly, and deservedlyso. A seafood starter, two non-veg

main course dishes with appams/Kerala Parathas and a dessert wouldset you back by `1500.

VENUE: The Paul, 139/28, DomlurLayout, Off Intermediate Ring Road,Bangalore 71. Tel: 40477777.

FOODIES'FEEDBACK

Coast Stars: My dinner companionswere Rohini Nair, senior software engi-neer at HP, her husband Alankar, Pro-

gramme Manager at Wipro, their daugh-ter Mythili, who shared my enthusiasmfor pappadams and Bijoy Venugopal, En-trepreneur and Content Consultant,

whose humour helped us tide over thelong waiting time.

Keratint: The dcor is quite classy, andthe furniture does lend a Kerala touchelegantly. The walls are adorned with in-

teresting curios. In essence, if we canignore the rather dim lighting, its acomfortable setting.

Bait: If youre the kind who un-abashedly likes coastal food, youwould appreciate the menu. The

starters section makes this point quiteclearly with its complete lack of foulplay. The main course section makes ashow of ducking the issue and provid-

ing some other relief in the form of

beef and chicken. The vegetarians arereasonably well looked after and have

no cause to complain.

Good Catch: The Koondhal Varattiyathu

(squid) had an awesome pepper masalathat made it an excellent starter. TheMeen Nirachathu seared fish with araw mango stuffing was just about okay.

The crispy Parippu (dal) Vadas weregood too, though you would find theprice hard to digest. The Kozhi (chicken)

Mappas, a classic Syrian Christianpreparation with coriander and a mildcoconut flavour, and the Pachakari (veg-

etable) Kurma, saved the main course.The appams were fantastic, though thedelays meant that we were forced toask Eppam?! (when)

Fishy: The Beef coconut fry, which isquite a holy cow in Kerala cuisine,proved really disappointing, and som

portions were undercooked. Weagreed with Bijoy when he said that iwould require quite a meen chef toserve an underwhelming Fish Moilee

but the hardly-there coconut milk ensured just that. The desserts left a loto be desired. The Ela Ada (coconut

jaggery filling inside rice dough andcooked in banana leaves) wasnt sweenough and the Parippu Payasamfailed to deliver too.

Service: Bijoy aptly described theservice time as meenwhile, a fishy

unit that included the time taken tobring the catch from the Vembanadlake. The waiter was definitely helpful

and even suggested dishes, butthat hardly solved the other weightyservice issues.

Verdict: For some reason, if you happe

to have a (mostly) Kerala coastal cui-sine craving and want it delivered in a

star hotel setting, you might considerthe place. Otherwise, the city provideenough options to have equally (if notmore) tasty food at a fraction of the

price. Hardly anything can be worth thwait we endured!

The writer is a brand consultawho is always on the look-out fo

restaurant that serves him rig

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(L-R): Bijoy Venugopal, Rohini Nair and Alankar

A lake-lustre affair

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MBANAD

A NEW study, which examined percep-tions of people in high-powered jobs,

has found that they are likely to bejudged more harshly for mistakes ifthey are in a job that is not normally as-

sociated with their gender. Re-searchers suspected that people whohave a job not normally associated withtheir gender would be under closer

scrutiny and more likely to get in trou-ble for mistakes. "Any mistakes thatthey make, even minor ones, could be

magnified and seen as greater mis-takes," said Victoria Brescoll, a psycho-logical scientist at Yale University and

author of the study. In the 2008 presi-dential election, a woman came closeto getting a nomination, and an African-American man ended up President of

the United States--a job formerly re-served for white men.

Brescoll came up with a list of high-status jobs that are normally held by onegender or the other. This was easy for

men, but actually quite difficult forwomen. For this study, they comparedvarious roles such as a police chief,a traditionally male role, a female CEO

of an aerospace engineering firm and achief judge.

She says, Like the glass ceiling that

keeps women from rising higher, theglass cliff is what counter-stereotypicalindividuals (such as female police chiefs)are in danger of falling from. The study

is published in Psychological Science, ajournal of the Association for Psychologi-cal Science. PTI

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PEOPLE JUDGED HARSHLY FOR GENDER SPECIFIC JOBS

RESEARCHERS HAVE warned that young girlsare far more likely to be fatter than boys for

they are over-pampered by their parents anddo not get enough exercise. By the age ofseven, one in four girls is too heavy com-

pared to just one in six boys, a study of chil-dren found. Its authors blamed mothers, andwarned that 'puppy fat' should not be ig-nored, calling on parents to act early. The In-

stitute of Education analysed the weights of11,000 children taking part in the MillenniumCohort Study which is tracking youngsters

born between 2000 and 2002. Seven-year-olds who are only children are 25 per centmore likely to be overweight than those with

one sibling and 30 per cent more likely to beoverweight than those with two.

It is thought that this is due to over-indul-gent parents and a lack of playmates at home.

Youngsters with an overweight mother orther, or a mother who smokes, are also lik

to be heavier. "Girls and only children aremore likely to become overweight betweethe ages of five and seven. It is not clear

whether the increased risk for girls is duethem being over-fed compared to boys, obecause they are involved in less physicaactivity," the Daily Mailquoted Principal

author Dr Alice Sullivan as saying.

YOUNG GIRLS LIKELY TO BE FATTENED BY LOVE

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