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Hello everyone. I am Sriranjani from your pink nomad channel. The place we are today is
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Ethiopia. We are in an Indian restaurant in Ethiopia.
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The name of this restaurant is Sangam.
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They have come here from our hometown and are successfully running this restaurant.
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I will tell you all the information and we will meet that person too
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and we'll also taste how the food is here. See, this is outside of the place.
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You can see the entrance of the gate.
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From here the seating starts. They have many Indian starters here.
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We are in the Sangam restaurant, which is run by a Tamilian, since 1973.
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Since then the restaurant has been here
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You can find most Tamilian dishes here in this hotel.
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including the meals, they have everything here.
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This restaurant also has a bar attached. We can get whatever we want.
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What do you want to try today?
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My favorite is the biriyani always.
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This place is suggested by Uma Shankar. I have known him in Uganda.
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I haven't shown him in the video. He told me not to show him. He's doing business there.
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He gave me the contact of this place. The menu here is interesting. They don't have idli and dosas.
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maybe because of the climate. They couldn't prepare the batter and all.
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They have biryani, thalis and many more.
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This restaurant is a wine and dine. They have many fish varieties in the dishes.
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They also have vegetarian options. Dhal and mattar paneer.
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Everything is below 200. The cost is in the range of 150.
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Everything is below 500
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and nothing is above that price range. So the price is reasonable.
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It is in Ethiopia. The rate is the same even when we biryani in our country.
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They have small and large options. Small is about 100 and chicken biryani full is
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160. In Ethiopia, chicken is a little costly. It would come around 400 rupees.
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It is more than one kg in our country. So you can eat mutton at a very cheap rate here.
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Mutton mughal biryani is 185
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around 300 in Indian rupees. This one is a large quantity. If you want small, then it is 100
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It would come around 200 indian rupees.
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In many other countries, Indian restaurants will be costly but here it is reasonable.
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If you come to Ethiopia, come try this restaurant. It is nearby the airport.
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Near airport in the main boley road, you can find this place.
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You can ask anyone or look in the google maps.
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We have ordered chicken mughal biryani, a non veg thali and one lemon rice
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a butter chicken and chicken 65.
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They told it is very popular here.
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We'll see whether it has our traditional taste or it is different.
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Our dishes has come. We have ordered different things like butter chicken, 65,
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butter naan, paneer, mughal biryani, and
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thali, mutton curry and other items
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this is chicken 65
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This is the lemon rice
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It has the most reviews so we ordered this one too
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We also got garlic naan
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chicken butter masala
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it's just like how it would be in our place.
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Everything is perfect except there is no lemon in the chicken 65.
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This thali has potato, beetroot, chicken roast,
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tikka, rice and mutton gravy.
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They have given us these.
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We are going to eat now. Will tell you how the taste is.
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It is so tempting to look at.
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It just looks like our south Indian food.
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The naan and chicken butter masala now.
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This is little bit different.
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The masala flavour is much. I can't taste the butter much.
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I am tasting this now.
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Mughal biryani is good
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there are a lot of spices in here.
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I can taste different spices in this.
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The butter masala taste also differs everywhere according to the ingredients.
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The colour and cooking pattern differs.
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The taste of the food differs according to the water they use.
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I am tasting lemon rice now.
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It is perfect.
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They have added onions, peanuts, corriander
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and the flavour of the lemon is very nice.
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The chicken 65 is very amazing. It's been two months since I have eaten this.
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But I haven't tastes anything as amazing as this one
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If anyone missing Indian food or chicken 65
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this one would truly be amazing
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Rice and mutton curry.
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Welcome sir. Very happy to meet you in Ethiopia here.
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I have seen that you have established your restaurant since 1973
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Who came here with this idea first?
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Can you give us a small intro?
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My uncle had it. He is not with us now.
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He was a charted accountant by profession.
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and my father was a chef. He was working in Savera hotel.
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In chennai, so he came here as a
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auditor and during that time when he saw the restaurant
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everything was here like italian,
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chinese cuisine but they didn't have any Indian restaurant.
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So, after that proposal, there was a princess named tannaine work
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she gave us her guest house to open the Indian restaurant.
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So, where did you have the first restaurant. It was in the boley road.
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Back then the main city was
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the old airport. Boley road became important after the
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airport was built.
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It developed there after. How long has it been since you came here?
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I have been born and brought up here.
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My father came here when he was 15 and so did my mother.
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I have been here all my life.
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What were the difficulties you had to face in the beginning?
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Ethiopian and Indian food are little similar. 75 percent of the spice
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is available here. They are similar.
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The things we use like urad dhal are hard to find.
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We need to import from India. And mainly we saw there was no Idli and dosa in the menu
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It was because of the urad dhal and the people here mostly don't eat idli and dosa.
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They eat something similar thing.
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There isn't much demand for it. What is the favorite dish of your restaurant?
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Something which is very special. There are three categories.
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Mutton, chicken and vegetarian
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In vegetarian, it is tomato chutney,
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navratan corma, matar paneer kofta. There are top class.
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In chicken, we have special barbeque items, like tandori
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tikka, butter chicken and chicken biryani are very famous.
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In mutton, mutton biryani, bhuna masala, mutton curry
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mutton dopyaza are very famous.
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Say something short and sweet about your restaurant. It is in the name itself. Sangam is the meeting place.
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Everyone comes and meet here. Indians, Ethiopians, business people
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They have deals here
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We have done higher options as well, for example
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The former president pranab mukerjee
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came here from India
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Raj nath singh our defense minister has also come here
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UN amabassador thirumoorthy from India
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has also come here. So a last question,
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What do you want to tell our Indian Tamil people?
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Please come here, we will take care of you here
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Thank you so much. We have taken a mini interview of him now
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It was so interesting. We have finished our lunch and the food was so amazing.
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It was like we ate in India.
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Price details, his contact and hotel information and all will be given in the description.
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You can contact him directly too.
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If you can come to Ethiopia, you can also meet him. He will take care of all that.
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Stay tuned. Bye.
