Indian Restaurant offers Coronavirus themed meal

Running a restaurant in these challenging times is proving to be a mammoth task. With many small cafes and restaurants having to close down due to lack of business, some eateries have managed to keep their heads above the water.

An Indian restaurant is now offering a 'Covid curry' with a naan shaped like a mask. This dish was created to encourage customers to eat in, much like the Eat In Help Out scheme in the UK. Multi cuisine restaurant, called Vedic in Jodhpur, Rajasthan is now serving this dish which reminds us why we spent those countless days stuck at home baking banana bread.

So what does this dish contain? The 'Covid curry' consists of a malai kofta that, instead of plain circular balls made of khoya (mawa), is now shaped like pointed crowns. The kofta resembles the physical description of COVID-19 as per scientific imaging. If that still doesn't tickle your taste buds then a butter naan shaped like a mask also comes with it. You can't wear this on your face though.

Source: Jam Press

Source: Jam Press

The restaurant will also make a special deal where it would offer customers who had COVID-19 a discount, if the individual provides medical proof.

Priced at Rs 220 for the rich curry and Rs 40 for the naan, this dish is one to get you hungry wherever you are!

"The restaurant business has totally been crashed by the pandemic, and our chefs have come out with innovative dish ideas. We are also offering special discount to the Covid recovered patient to show our respect towards them for fighting off such a deadly virus and recovering from it. People are really afraid to eat out amid this pandemic. Even if they are coming out of their houses, restaurant businesses are not seeing a lot of customers even now when restrictions are relaxed,” said restaurant owner Anil Kumar.

This isn't the first time we have seen an Indian eatery use COVID-19 as inspiration. A restaurant in Madurai, South India offered a mask paratha which got people talking on social media.

In March, a fast food outlet in Hanoi, Vietnam cooked up a ‘coronaburger’, made up of green-tea stained burger buns and little “crowns” made of dough to look like this virus.