KOCHI: ‘Eat Kochi Eat’, the Facebook foodie group, which has over 19,000 members, organised a Food walk, probably the first of its kind in Kerala. They walked the streets of Mattanchery and visited legendary eateries like ‘Kayees’, ‘Shanthilal’ sweet shop, ‘Fathimas’ and ‘Reenus’.
“Incidentally, the day, October 9, happened to be the first anniversary of ‘Eat Kochi Eat’,” said member Balram Menon. “Karthik Murali the founder of this group, along with members Madhu, Akhil, Mittu and Anitha deserve credit.”
A total of 80 members participated. Member Sabu said, “I enjoyed the specialties of ‘Shanthilal’, which included Kachori, Dokhla, which has an authentic taste, and the Badam tea.”
Another member Binyas said that the snacks of ‘Kayees’, mainly chicken samosa, beef cutlet, appam and bondas were really tasty. “But the surprise element was Avacoda Milk shake from ‘Reenus Cool bar’,” says Balram. “‘Fathimas’ had spicy beef kondattam and mani puttu which tickled the taste buds.”
The food walk was followed by a cake-cutting ceremony. People had come from Trissur and Kottayam just for this meet.