Yeh AAM ki Pyaas hai….Dil MANGO more!

One of the many things that I am missing from Mumbai in Bangalore is Mangoes. The “Alphonso” or the “Hapoos”, as called in Hindi. If Mango is king of fruits then Alphonso without an iota of doubt is the king of Mangoes. The smell, the taste, the texture-simply majestic.

If you take my words, if you have ever taken the Alphonso, you would not savor any other species of Mango to that extent! The Alphonso would keep reminding its taste!

Bangalore being a big Metro city, I had hopes to get the Alphonso here as well. But they turned out to be false hopes, I suppose. I tried a lot to find the Alphonso in Bangalore but the efforts were going in vain as it was not available anywhere I searched.

And since I was not getting Alphonso, I did not have any other Mango! The summer season was going like that only without the Mango!

Lady Luck has a strange way of doing things, and last weekend she smiled on me! Riding on her smile, I luckily had season’s first mangoes. I was out for getting grocery to nearby hypermarket, where I saw Alphonso in the Mango section. Voila!

Hooray! Was my instant reaction! I was excited by the fact that the “mango drought” was about to end! I picked some good ones and got back home happily.

After dinner, when I cut the mango, I was scintillated by the smell! I relished the mango to full and the contentment is beyond words!

Mango is associated with one or two odd pimples on my face but then who cares? Yeh dil MANGO more…! :-)

God Bless!

Cheers!

Adi