[parennoob]

Offtopic tangent – Udupi is the city after which Udupi cuisine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udupi_cuisine) is named. This was fast food in India in the 80s and 90s, and is still reasonably popular, though I would say it has been supplanted to some extent by fast food chains.

At most Udupi restaurants/cafés in India, you can get a pretty good meal for the equivalent of a dollar or two.

[subbu]

They haven't been supplanted; its just that there are lot more people in urban areas now than in 90s and they aren't going to eat idlis all 7 days. In fact there are a lot more Udupi restaurants now than earlier. Some restaurants are inherently udupi flavoured although people may not know it, for example Vasudev Adiga's or for that matter even MTR and Maiya's.

[manojlds]

I frequent a Udupi restaurant and didn't know this :)