Chennai:
The newly introduced dishes, pongal, lemon rice and curry leaf rice, at
Amma canteen were an instant hit with the sale of pongal crossing the
30,000-plates-mark on Monday.
Lemon and curd rice sales recorded close to 20,000 packets.

According
to Chennai corporation sources, the introduction of pongal has
increased the number of footfalls to canteens. However, the exact number
in the increase of consumers  can be ascertained only by next month and
at present the focus in on sustaining the quality, a senior corporation
official said.

The sale of idlis which was hovering around 3 lakh
mark has come down to 2.5. lakh after the  introduction of new dishes,
he added. “Pongal is good and it will be tasty if a vada is also served
with it,” said D. Arumugham, a cab driver and a regular at Amma canteen
in Kodambakkam.