Taj Mahal and Bombay: Indian restaurants in Chateauroux offer a 'home away from home' food
The Hindu
Chateauroux streets offer Indian shooters a taste of home with Taj Mahal and Bombay restaurants, breaking Olympic medal jinx.
The streets of the charming Chateauroux resemble a mini India with a touch of 'The Taj Mahal and Bombay' offering double Olympic medallist Manu Bhaker and other shooters a welcome escape from the "barely survivable" Games Village food.
Breaking a 12-year medal jinx, the shooters have already won their highest ever Olympics tally of three bronze, with Manu becoming the first Indian athlete post-Independence to win two medals at a single edition.
"The Games Village food is barely survivable," the shooters would often say.
Atif Noman, who hails from Punjab province in Pakistan, co-owner of the 'Taj Mahal' restaurant in the city centre distinctly remembers serving Manu "her favourite delicacies".
"After I saw her on TV creating history for India I remembered serving Indian foods to her," Noman told PTI, adding that she has come here multiple times.
"Matar paneer, Dal Makhani, palak paneer, all medium spicy and plain naan would be their regular orders. They would come in batches and would eat vegetarian food only," he recollected, while playing some Hindi chartbusters.
"As the competitions are going now, they have stopped coming and mostly it's the coaches and officials who keep coming now. It was really a lovely experience to catch up with them and talk to them in Hindi. They also loved our food and kept coming every day." The restaurant co-owner Nazim Uddin, who hails from Sylhet in Bangladesh, founded it four years ago to serve Indian delicacies.
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