Light of Asia, 1935

[Subdeacon Joe]

Menu from the Light of Asia Restaurant. Mumbai, India in 1935. Zoom in to see everything. (1858-1947: India under British rule.)

From the New York Public Library 
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bbeaa130-a68a-ec5c-e040-e00a18060519

 

Before Alpo asks, prices seem to be under this system:

 

 "anna (or ānna) was a currency unit formerly used in British India, equal to 1⁄16 of a rupee.[1] It was subdivided into four (old) Paisa or twelve pies (thus there were 192 pies in a rupee). When the rupee was decimalised and subdivided into 100 (new) paise, one anna was therefore equivalent to 6.25 paise. The anna was demonetised as a currency unit when India decimalised its currency in 1957, followed by Pakistan in 1961. It was replaced by the 5-paise coin, which was itself discontinued in 1994 and demonetised in 2011. The term anna is frequently used to express a fraction of 1⁄16."

 

[Alpo]

Hey now, I knew about an anna.

 

I've read Kipling. And then there's Dean Stockwell and Errol Flynn, as Kim O'Hara and Mabub Ali the horse trader.

[Alpo]

I wonder what a sweet omelette is? Aside from being 50% more money than a regular omelette.

[Subdeacon Joe]

1 hour ago, Alpo said:

I wonder what a sweet omelette is? Aside from being 50% more money than a regular omelette.

 

 

A sweet egg white omelette.  This receipt calls it "Breadless French Toast."  In the video, he does go into English when he gets to the directions.  Listen to it a couple of times and you can understand most of it.
https://www.imagelicious.com/blog/sweet-omelet

 

 

[Alpo]

That's not too bad.

 

Needs a little more sugar though.

[watab kid]

im getting too much sweet in that - ill stick with french toast when i need sweet and an omelet with lots of vegies and sausage please