I had a friend who also used to be my pen pal for a while and our friendship grew so tight that our pen pal-ship died :(
Anyways how do I get a pen pal now?
Oh, I see what you're doing here! Aside from provoking me, that is.
I have to be honest: that idli looks a bit too solid and dense for my liking. And the discolouration in the pic is not very appetising. There’s something about a perfectly soft, snowy-white, fluffy idli that just can’t be beaten. This one looks likely to be chewy and rubbery. Not an A-grade idli.
I’m a massive chai fan myself, but I’ve always been a firm believer in the 'separate but equal' policy: I prefer my chai alongside or after eating, rather than dunking anything in it. Anyway, a truly good, soft idli would probably just dissolve in the hot chai and ruin it, whereas a 'dunkable' idli would be too rubbery for my taste and not worth eating.
I say keep the chai in the cup and the idli on the plate—they’re both better off that way! @333maheshwariii