Keeping up with the traditions of presenting ethnic gourmet delights, WelcomHeritage Noor-Us-Sabah Palace is organising a Dakshin food festival, a festival of the foods of South India at the Barbeque lawn.
A fun, food and frolic three-day festival starting from Friday is bringing the delights from four States and that too at one destination. General Manager Amit Kumar Singh told media persons that people may enjoy a wide range of South Indian cuisine at moderate prices. The timing for the festival would be from 7.30 pm to 11 pm.Veteran Master Chef Rajan and his team have been specially flown in to recreate the authentic flavours of South Indian Cuisine for the locals. Chef Rajan has worked with the ITC Group since 1974. He is a specialist when it comes to the cuisine that is native to his hometown in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu. Four times he has been called back from his retirement by the Hotel to the place he best knows, ‘The Kitchen’, and making the discerning guests happy. He is a strong believer that he doesn’t have a standard fare but on that note he says, “I make whatever God inspires me to.”
His experiments have produced such unique concoctions, the best from all four Southern States. The Cuisines such as Chettinadu, Malabar to various Kurmas, Appams with Stews. Chef Rajan’s dosas contain culinary secrets; traditional gunpowder chutney which is hidden in potato mash of a masala dosa.
He has had the privilege of extending his hospitality to India’s finest VVIPs namely PV Narasimha Rao, Former Prime Minister, Jayalalitha, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and many more at ITC Maurya, which is also flagship Hotel of ITC to our current Indian Cricket Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Harbhajan Singh, Rahul Dravid, Suresh Raina and many others at ITC Grand Central during the IPl seasons.