{"id":558,"date":"2013-06-28T23:10:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T17:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=558"},"modified":"2013-06-29T02:45:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T21:15:33","slug":"things-i-like-abt-chennai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/28\/things-i-like-abt-chennai\/","title":{"rendered":"Things i like about Chennai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I been here for over two and half years. So felt like writing what i feel about this place. <\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Food<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>Most people think Chennai only famous for veg food like dosa\/idli\/appam that is not correct. I was lucky to try nice Chettinad non-veg food along with variety of seafood. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-ash3\/944529_10151614877075189_1042693769_n.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-ash3\/s720x720\/557299_10151193661015189_1874440936_n.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes thats me eating drumstick chicken &#038; non-veg thali at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripadvisor.in\/Restaurant_Review-g304556-d1171786-Reviews-Amma-Chennai_Madras_Tamil_Nadu.html\" target=\"_blank\">amma`s <\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>People<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>I know it must be surprising as what i have heard from most of my friends that people here are not very welcoming to north indians. I was lucky so far &#038; having great time here. Autowalas as ass everywhere &#038; they are no different in Chennai. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-frc1\/s720x720\/396106_10151191402665189_1929127707_n.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-ash4\/380983_10151198625685189_287446821_n.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Culture <\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>Tamil culture is very old &#038; vast in itself. I enjoyed seeing one or the other festival people celebrate here including the one where they take gods out from temple for a walk\/ride. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-ash3\/538616_10151190396725189_1623434383_n.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>FOSS<\/strong><br \/>\nIf am correct then <a href=\"http:\/\/ilugc.in\/\" target=\"_blank\">linux user group chennai<\/a> is the only LUG left in our country which is active &#038; holds regular monthly meetups. I have been part of it &#038; presented as well in couple of occasions. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-PoTZAlInUcw\/URaQfM-f2OI\/AAAAAAAABqI\/_PmaNtRoN50\/s640\/DSCN2031_new.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Friends<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>Last not the least i have made some great friends here who are going to remain part of my entire life no matter where i go.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-frc1\/308403_2042561345103_53001415_n.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"637\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Planning to Visit Chennai?<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripadvisor.in\/Attractions-g304556-Activities-c50-Chennai_Madras_Tamil_Nadu.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tripadvisor<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tamilnadutourism.org\/places\/citiestowns\/chennai.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Chennai Tourism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I been here for over two and half years. So felt like writing what i feel about this place. Food Most people think Chennai only famous for veg food like dosa\/idli\/appam that is not correct. I was lucky to try nice Chettinad non-veg food along with variety of seafood. Yes thats me eating drumstick chicken &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/28\/things-i-like-abt-chennai\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Things i like about Chennai&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,61],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}