Food: FYI

FYI- Fun, Food, Friends                

Are you a Maggi lover? Do you reminiscence the night canteen trips with your gang during your college days when Maggi used to be your staple diet? And what about the times when you would experiment with maggi and then declare yourself as an established cook? Well FYI is definitely a place you would wanna visit.

Before you rack your brain thinking what kind of a name is FYI, let me help you with that. “For Your Information”, this is a new fast food chain that specializes in a menu consisting of a potpourri of dishes made from Maggi. Despite the fact that “Maggi” has become synonymous with noodles, FYI uses actual Nestle “Maggi” for their preparations. From different flavored maggi, to crispy noodles, noodle balls, noodle rolls, noodle kebabs and so on.  You get the drift. ;)

What is the X-Factor you ask? Well, just like the name for the restaurant, all the dishes in the menu are the usual abbreviations that we use while chatting viz. WTF, LOL, TTYL, BRB, HMMM, OMG, etc. Wait wait, do not start making up your own full forms for these dishes. They use the colloquial meanings of these abbreviations as the dish description. So a WTF would read like, “Crispy Crunchy deliciousness What the F*#K is it?” or a LOL would read, “ You will be Laughing Out Loud to be offered cheese, butter veggies, chillies, garlic, etc at this rate!!”

I tried the TTYL there. The description said, “I will Talk To You Later, it has red chilies and schezwan in it!” and it had two small red chilly symbols besides it calling out, “Indulge at your own risk!” That was enough motivation for me to try this dish. As it turns out, it lived up to its expectations and was pretty Hot! Plus they served a copious amount of it, enough for a snack for two regular-sized people, unless you are a pro at devouring Maggi! The rates are a little high to reasonable range. I spent Rs 99 for a combo order of the dish with a 300 ml beverage.

What I liked about the place apart from the funky and eye-catching names of the dishes and the use of maggi (duh), was that they included tax in the prices that were displayed. So a dish priced at Rs 70 will be a Rs 70 dish and not a Rs 75 or 77 dish with xyz taxes that makes you jiggling and rummaging through your wallet in desperate search for change.

So I would suggest all maggi fans to try it out, see what all can be done with maggi and then impress your partner by trying it out at home and claiming it as your own creativity! :P

Check out their website for more information: www.fyifoods.com

FYI Menu:

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