The power of visual communication...eh!
I had chanced upon this ad in an old Bengali magazine..."Sanonda" it is called.
Though i must say "Goan" momo is also a Nepali dish....infact it is more "Nepali" than " Goan", as far as my knowledge of cuisine goes...culinary specialist that i am not! (momos.....ahh...reminds me of this tiny smelly shack that used to be our "the-most-favourite" hangout during the Nid days...beef momos served with this red-chillified-paste from red chilly powder, a potent looking chilly sauce; never knew chilly paste could taste so ..well..tasty!)
What's really interesting is the selective classification of food under the various cuisines...the best one perhaps being "Bengali"... rosogolla on a spoon, what else!! Special mention can also go to "Chinese", the single stand of noodle on the chop-stick and the "spaced out" kebabs under "Moghlai" !! ("Italian", reminds me of the game packman, though ...the packman trying to gobble up the single pizza slice!!)
The power of thought I say! ahem...
3 comments:
and i thought the stuff on the "goan" pan was garlic...silly me..
i think the very fact that they had to include a written 'legend' below each little pictogram goes to prove that they could've done a better job...
some of the vernac-language advertising work done by ULKA (from the 1960s through to the 80s) is worth a dekko... try searching for it sometime when you haven't much else to do...
oh, and keep writing... heartbreaker... heh heh ;)
hmm ..well...what "if" its a garlic?? since garlic is among the host of spices used in goan cuisine..but i think the "momo" sounds yummier!! and it reminds me of the tib market..so amen..!
and hey correction: the momo is more tibetan than anything else.("nepali"-i dont kno where i concocted that from...)
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