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Sitting among the graves, drinking tea and chatting with friends seems to be normal for Hindu who frequent a restaurant built on a real cemetery. Despite fact that lots of tourists are amazed and get scared at the sight of the interior, locals got accustomed to feed in this way-out atmosphere.
Cemetary restaurant has a really "appropriate" name - "Lucky Hotel". The base of it's interior form 22 real graves situated between wooden tables and chairs. Visitors have to sit really close to the burial places, and waiters often have to get on the graves to serve the clients.
This restaurant got it's queer decoration after it's owner Krishna Kutty refused to destroy the cemetery like others did with a view to construction. He decided to leave the graves, the more so in a few of them famous Hindu persons were buried. He built the restaurant 40 years ago, and since then he wipes the graves and puts fresh roses on them every morning while meeting the clients, the number of which has grown to 300 per day.
It's possible to taste about 90 vegetarian dishes in the "Lucky Hotel", although it is most famous by it's tea and white rolls with butter. A lot of tourists and artists walk by the restaurant but very few of them dare to enter. "I pluck up my spirit to get in. It's scary because there are coffins all over there", said one tourist standing outside. |
