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Annalakshmi Restaurants

Annalakshmi ... Food for the Gods

'Service, style, satisfaction ... with Love' Located in four countries (India, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia) the Annalakshmi vegetarian restaurants, serve a delectable array of authentic Indian cuisine to tickle the palate and satisfy the soul.

Polished, private and yet utterly unpretentious, its success is the result of the underlying philosophy - serve, love, give. It is a philosophy that is based on the ancient adage adithi devo bhava, meaning the 'guest is god.'

This attitude is manifest in the work of a largely volunteer staff - housewives who know what it takes to prepare a wholesome meal, and an assortment of doctors, teachers, technicians, clerks and accountants who understand the meaning of polite, unobtrusive service. With ingrediants prepared specially by Annalakshmi Sweets and Spices in Coimbatore, India, each item of the elaborate menu reflects the ancient culninary art of India.

Annalakshmi stands out for yet another reason - the array of mouth watering and wholistic dishes is served in an ambience that reflects four thousand years of Indian art. In every way then, it is a restaurant where vegetarian cuisine is a cultural experience.


Annalakshmi - vegetarian cuisine is largely an alien concept outside of India. In India it is very much a part of the culture of the land, and many are steadfast in their dietary vegetarian preferences. Not surprisingly therefore that with the blossoming of the Temple of Fine Arts in Malaysia, Annalakshmi was an idea whose time had come...		Origins \| Locations \| Menu Demystified \| Operating Hours \| Reservations \| Services \| New Concepts
'Barfis... glorious Barfis!'	Indian Diet - the varieties and spread in Indian vegetarian fare needs to be seen to be believed! The styles in cooking are as varied, as the diverse cultures and communities that comprise the sub-continent. Over the centuries, with the infusion of many foreign arrivals - some friendly and some not - vegetarian creations underwent many innovations, without eclipse. The staple was rice to the South and wheat to the North, embellished with appetisers, curries, side dishes, chutneys and more... North Indian \| South Indian \| Recipies \| Glossary \| Grains \| Pulses \| Condiments \| Vegetables \| Herbs
	Other Cultural Diets - perhaps the most endearing aspect of Indian vegetarian fare must be its inherent quality of 'malice towards none, and charity to all'. In one fell swoop, it caters to the sensitivities of all cultures world-wide, being grounded in the fundamental compassionate creed of ahimsa or non-violence... Jains \| Buddhist \| Halal \| Kosher
The Rationale - the scientific temper in dietary investigations and its impact on good health are of recent origins. Long before this development, the human communities divided into meat eaters and those who consciously abjured. And only the Vedic Indians had a corpus of philosophic speculations and other arguments on the nature of food, its constituents, its assimilation and its effects on body and mind. Recent evidence has been mounting on the overwhelming benefits of avoiding meat, yet the ingrained tendencies of the meat eating cultural memory can be daunting to overcome... Scientific View \| Naturalsitic View \| Vedas		'Chappati, Poori Paratha'
Vegetarianism - the human tongue is a remarkable organ. It has five different taste buds, all of which may be creatively stimulated, alone or in concert, to enhance the taste of food. Nowhere else has this been more successfully developed than with vegetarian cuisine. And many have been the luminaries who have embraced this philosophy of compassion and variety... Physiology of Taste \| Famous Vegetarians \| Quotes \| Categories
Health - from the recesses of forgoten memory, the treatises of the ancients, the Ayurveda or 'the essence of life' have been brought to life. These manuscripts, reveal a profound and insightful declaration that food has three major components - the sattvic, the rajasic and the tamasic, which when selectively prepared and consumed in the appropriate manner, bestow a healthy body and alert mind... Ayurveda \| Medicinal		'Young Coconut'
Food Industry - in this age of commercialised interests, nothing has been spared, least of all food. With an eye on instant comforts and instant profits, technology has ben unleashed on agriculture and animal husbandry, and its many ills have come to roost. These have proved ruinous on humans as well as the environment, and still good sense is yet to prevail... Meat Industries \| Environment \| Chemicals & Pesticides \| Health \| References
'Fruit Delight'	Trade & Trends - perhaps the greatest irony of history must be the lure of spices, the essential ingrediants of vegetarian cooking, that drew the colonial era to a head. Yet despite its many unfortunate chapters in human civilisation, a slow blossoming of many benefits of this most wonderful of arts is begining to take root, the world over... Spice trade \| Indian Curries


Annalakshmi - vegetarian cuisine is largely an alien concept outside of India. In India it is very much a part of the culture of the land, and many are steadfast in their dietary vegetarian preferences. Not surprisingly therefore that with the blossoming of the Temple of Fine Arts in Malaysia, Annalakshmi was an idea whose time had come...		Origins \| Locations \| Menu Demystified \| Operating Hours \| Reservations \| Services \| New Concepts
'Barfis... glorious Barfis!'	Indian Diet - the varieties and spread in Indian vegetarian fare needs to be seen to be believed! The styles in cooking are as varied, as the diverse cultures and communities that comprise the sub-continent. Over the centuries, with the infusion of many foreign arrivals - some friendly and some not - vegetarian creations underwent many innovations, without eclipse. The staple was rice to the South and wheat to the North, embellished with appetisers, curries, side dishes, chutneys and more... North Indian \| South Indian \| Recipies \| Glossary \| Grains \| Pulses \| Condiments \| Vegetables \| Herbs
	Other Cultural Diets - perhaps the most endearing aspect of Indian vegetarian fare must be its inherent quality of 'malice towards none, and charity to all'. In one fell swoop, it caters to the sensitivities of all cultures world-wide, being grounded in the fundamental compassionate creed of ahimsa or non-violence... Jains \| Buddhist \| Halal \| Kosher
The Rationale - the scientific temper in dietary investigations and its impact on good health are of recent origins. Long before this development, the human communities divided into meat eaters and those who consciously abjured. And only the Vedic Indians had a corpus of philosophic speculations and other arguments on the nature of food, its constituents, its assimilation and its effects on body and mind. Recent evidence has been mounting on the overwhelming benefits of avoiding meat, yet the ingrained tendencies of the meat eating cultural memory can be daunting to overcome... Scientific View \| Naturalsitic View \| Vedas		'Chappati, Poori Paratha'
Vegetarianism - the human tongue is a remarkable organ. It has five different taste buds, all of which may be creatively stimulated, alone or in concert, to enhance the taste of food. Nowhere else has this been more successfully developed than with vegetarian cuisine. And many have been the luminaries who have embraced this philosophy of compassion and variety... Physiology of Taste \| Famous Vegetarians \| Quotes \| Categories
Health - from the recesses of forgoten memory, the treatises of the ancients, the Ayurveda or 'the essence of life' have been brought to life. These manuscripts, reveal a profound and insightful declaration that food has three major components - the sattvic, the rajasic and the tamasic, which when selectively prepared and consumed in the appropriate manner, bestow a healthy body and alert mind... Ayurveda \| Medicinal		'Young Coconut'
Food Industry - in this age of commercialised interests, nothing has been spared, least of all food. With an eye on instant comforts and instant profits, technology has ben unleashed on agriculture and animal husbandry, and its many ills have come to roost. These have proved ruinous on humans as well as the environment, and still good sense is yet to prevail... Meat Industries \| Environment \| Chemicals & Pesticides \| Health \| References
'Fruit Delight'	Trade & Trends - perhaps the greatest irony of history must be the lure of spices, the essential ingrediants of vegetarian cooking, that drew the colonial era to a head. Yet despite its many unfortunate chapters in human civilisation, a slow blossoming of many benefits of this most wonderful of arts is begining to take root, the world over... Spice trade \| Indian Curries