This semester, I became friends with Nakul, and like me, Nakul loves his chai.
So after he read my chai post, he took me to Uncle’s Point.
Now I knew where Uncle’s Point was, on the way to high point, the small shop with the typical plastic chairs, serving hungover people breakfast, but I’d never actually stopped there. That day I had tea there, and it blew my mind. Since then, I’ve been there with quite a few people, (Aarushi, Manasi, Nakul, Nishtha and all my chai peeps) and everytime I go there, It feels really good.
It feels good, because It’s the sort of place where you sit with your friends and just talk, where you have a cup of tea in peace, where silences aren’t awkward, where you don’t keep track of time. The kind of place where you can just take a book and sit for an hour, sipping on your tea, or sit and talk to the patrons, who are really nice. I remember this one time, when i went there wearing formals, and they asked me about the interview and the company, they make you feel at home, and here in Manipal, sometimes that’s what we need, to feel at home.
Now since this is a food blog, we shall talk about the food and tea there. To begin with , they mostly have breakfast fare, and if you do manage to go all the way there for breakfast, their cheese omelette rivals Vikrams and for Manipal, the nutella pancakes are pretty good too (Sultans FTW tho). The cheese omelette is the perfect thing to have on a sunday morning, with a hot cup of tea or coffee, without the side serving of rude that you get at Vikram’s. You can also opt for the juices if you’re a fruit. Sorry, I meant if you like fruits. Are sacchhi. You can try the chicken cheese omelette for your daily dose of protein, or have just the omelette if you don’t like cheese (You animal!), and polish it off with a shake probably.
Cheese toasts and Nutella sandwiches are pretty Generic, the variety of things you can get with Maggi is pretty good, too. You have veggie Maggi, Egg Maggi, Chicken Maggi (Pieces of chicken sausage), Cheese Maggi, Egg Cheese Maggi, and a couple of more combinations. Now all of this is incomplete without their chai, and they have AMAZING chai. You can get a cup of amazinglymindbogglingcrazysuperachchibahutpyaarimaakehaathki chai for just 20 rupees, and trust me, this chai is worth every penny you spend on it. You can get your regular chai, masala chai with loads of elaichi, or even proper ginger tea, the kind you love if you’re the kinda person who catches a cold easily. You can ask them to make it sugarless if you like your chai with that gritty tea flavor, or load it up with sugar if you are the Khade Chammach ki Chai person.
It’s pretty cheap too, Chai and Breakfast for 2 can be covered in 200, sometimes even less.
Final Review : Don’t go Uncle’s point if you like your ambiance fancy and your chai firangi, go to this place if you want cheap breakfast and good chai, and definitely go to this place if you want to find yourself a quiet, quaint place to sit and talk. Or just introspect. And have chai, definitely have chai.
PS: If you like to pour your soul on paper and scribble your darkest thoughts on paper napkins and have a black diary full of poems that haven’t seen the light of day, I think you’ll find this a nice place to write.
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