Onam: Feast of the Vegetarian Tiger

We finished work Saturday afternoon and popped by Kerala Bhavan in Nerima. They're always having some special menu or other and this time it was a meals in honor of the regional Indian festival of Onam, which commemorates the Vamana avatar of Vishnu, the subsequent homecoming of the legendary Emperor Mahabali and mythologies of Hinduism related to Kashyapa and Parashurama...and something about a tiger where guys paint tiger faces on their bellies. We didn't see any tiger tummies abut they did make a nice presentation of the occasion's meals. It was all vegetarian. As colorful and tasty as it was, it was a bit sparse and we had to order some tandoori chicken to round it out.