The legendary Madras Cricket Club peanuts with dry spices, the perfect accompaniment to any drink.

The 2nd longest beach in the world may produce the 1st best romantic beachside-moment dish, or not: Chickpeas or dry green peas cooked and tossed with coconut, curry leaves and mustard seeds with chilli. Lovely.

Madrasis flock in spades to Buhari to sample this famous marinated chicken recipe — spiced chicken, fried to the point of ‘Holy-shiva!’

Introduced to Madras and made famous by Gangotree, these buttered buns are served with a bhaji made with mashed mixed vegetable, and a dash of incredible.

Idli; steamed dumplings (proper healthy) served with lentil curry. These two are like a match made in Tamil heaven.

Curry not as popular as butter chicken (yet), in the opposite spectrum in spice level with dry roasted spices and cooked to perfection.

Gippsland reared boer goat, slow cooked with herbs and spices to fall off the bone.

Mixed Vegetables cooked through a southern Indian style kurma like no other.

Fried eggplant in tamarind, tomato, onion and garlic gravy.

South Indian style yellow lentils with mustard seeds and curry leaves.

Traditional fish curry with tamarind, tomato, onion and garlic.

Rice cooked with yoghurt and spices.

It’s a buttermilk drink like nothing you’ve ever tried before. Unless you’re a Tamil, in which case, you get it…

The old favourite, alphonso mango with yogurt & sugar.

Semolina with ghee, sugar, cardamom, cashews and sultanas.