Do not take ‘starters’; never go for that yummy chicken kebabs at the beginning of your meal. Neither have that delectable orange blossom before you eat your tandoori-rotis.
Instead, have the kebab or the tandoor-items along with your main courses. Like rotis with dal-makhni and chicken sheikh kebab. Please keep in mind that our restaurants often want us to take non-veg curry items to cheat us of the real meat. They grate everything in the curries thus cutting costs. Always take a non-veg starter along with your main dishes, never as a starter.
Avoid salads for they are mostly kept in the open in the dirty kitchens and thus are well marinated with the bacteria-filled saliva of non-discerning flies. & of course, they cost a world. So let your urge to eat greens in a restaurant be confined to taking green chillis and pieces of lime.
In spite of the incessant request of caring waiters and floor personell, don’t overorder for God’s sake. When you finish the rotis, or the rice or that hakka noodles, only then order for more. Food in hotels seems less when ordering but on the table they generally ultimately go to waste!
Last but not the least, do yourself a favor and never order soft-drinks and ice-cream or kulfi at restaurants. They give you bad quality stuff and charge tones. A good cup-ice-cream may cost just Rs 10/- outside but you may be billed Rs 50/- by the hotel. So if you want to have desserts, then go have them from some outside, non-taxing shop.
Now get the bill & see how much you have saved!
