MTR Ready to Eat in Tampere, Finland

Different kind of a blog this time...am currently in Tampere, Finland, and since I knew no one here, as per advice, I was to carry MTR ready to eat packets. Normally, I would not even dream of eating such things, but I was scared into it with stories of how no vegetarian food is available etc. Firstly, vegetarian food is available and for people whose main motive of traveling is not 'saving', you can have more than a decent meal.

Coming back to MTRs, when I saw the varieties, I was confused. The first criteria was that it had to be a self sufficient item, so that ruled out palak paneer, channa masala, etc. I bought pongal, sambar rice, bisibelebaath and rajma chawal.
Of the four, first position goes to sambar rice hands down., it is potato and onions sambar, and when heated properly tastes just like sambar rice in Bangalore :-)
Second position goes to bisibelebaath, it is almost like sambar rice, a tad spicier. Pongal is wholesome and healthy, thanks to mix of pulses and rice. Rajma rice is also quite good.

The other alternative, in case you have brought non rice MTRs is to buy bread according to a colleague, though I must admit the idea of having channa masala with bread does not appeal to me in the least!!!

Cant wait to be back in Bengalooru, namma chandada ooru for more masala puri, bonda, bajji...