| Re-heat the Tandoori vegetables then gently spoon out on a plate keeping them separated from the chana dal. |
| Next up was bhatura chana, a dish of chickpeas in a sweet gravy, served on poori bread. |
| We had aloo chana, which is basically chana masala with diced potatoes instead of half the chickpeas. |
| The winner, Chana Suksabai, shown here looking as if he is about to barf, managed to woof down 10 crocodile eggs in 4 minutes. |
| There is a superb paneer dosa, with proper chunks of the cottage cheese-type stuff, and the chana dal, made with black lentils, is a warming goodness no autumn should go without. |
| We decide to share a couple of starters – masala dosai and vegetable somosa – and, for our mains, I opt for chicken masala while Caroline has cabbage-carrot thoran, dhal spinach and some chana masala. |
