The humble dosa – a pancake made from rice batter and lentils – may be very popular in southern India, but the country’s newly prosperous middle classes can now relish a gold-plated version of this dish.
Dosa come in many varieties, for example plain or with a potato masala filling. And they are not very expensive, costing between 50 and 100 Rupees (94-$1.90, 60p-£1.20).
But the Raj Bhog restaurant, in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru (Bangalore), now offers dosa covered in a coating of pure gold.
The luxury comes at a price. Each gold dosa costs the princely sum of 1011 Indian Rupees (£12.25; $19).
Diners are promised that they can tuck into one milligram of gold, spread out over 12 cm by 12 cm of pure gold foil. The gold is added to each dosa in the final wrap – very much like adding a thin sheet of cheese or butter while applying the finishing touches to the dish.
For the restaurant it is probably just an innovative way of marketing itself, an attempt to stand out in Malleswaram, an upmarket area of India’s IT capital Bengaluru.
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