Similarly in our office in Pune, we have a Rasam-Rice day @TravellerG
A co-worker from Bengaluru who could cook very good and tasty Rasam would bring a huge steel box full of Rasam at lunchtime.
Everyone else would bring their own white rice to office.
Then we would sit around the Rasam pot and pour it into our rice bowl.
We enjoyed the lunch together.
The secret to his tasty Rasam, as he told, was to cook each ingredient separately and not together, so as to bring it to the same softness level.
Then mix them into the Rasam masala.
Normally people would mix all vegetables together for cooking, due to which each one gets cooked unevenly.
Just some tips and memories 