The fascination for gold is not restricted to brides in South Indian weddings – they’ve now passed on to food. We’re talking about the gorgeously palatable ‘gold rice’. A video is going viral on WhatsApp showing rice served with 24-carat gold leaves. The white and gold combination food item is not just pretty in appearance but also devoured with pleasure. This indigenous culinary delight is introduced by a Hyderabad-based caterer named V Sai Radha Krishna. Dog Poop as favourite dessert: Turd-shaped sweet dish is Thailand’s new food sensation! (Watch video).
Food is an integral part of any event, and the importance only escalates in an Indian wedding. The host hopes to see its guests happy with the items on a menu. The video doing the rounds on the social media captures the scene from a South Indian marriage ceremony. It showcases guests feasting in a traditional setting but here comes the twist. The rice served on the banana leaves with golden leaves sprinkled on top of it during the Aratti Akku Bhojanam.
According to The News Minute report, Sai, the man who shared this video (from 2016) is also the creator of this most likely new food trend of the weddings. After getting inspired from Hyderabadi-paans (beetle leaves), wherein a few shops sell paans wrapped in a gold leaf (a flimsy foil made from extracts of gold), he too attempted to try the same with rice.
“It is not new to have gold. People have been eating sweets wrapped in gold leaf and silver leaf. I tried the same with rice. I knew that gold leaf would melt on hot steamed rice. I just tried it, and it worked well,” V Sai Radha Krishna says who has been in the catering business for last 15 years.
A look at the golden rice and one would think of its tiring and expensive preparation. But Sai says that he made no special effort to buy these gold leaves. “They are commonly available in the old city (Hyderabad),” he says. The leaves are also available on Amazon. The gold leaf doesn’t have any flavour or taste and is considered ‘biologically inert’, which means it doesn’t get absorbed in the digestive tract. “It’s just Rs 250-300 extra per plate,” reveals the innovator of Gold Rice.
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