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Ludhiana Opens 'Hawai Adda' Restaurant In An Actual Aircraft That Once Flew For Air India!

IANS, 11 Feb, 2017 03:01 PM
    Hawai Adda, ‘airport’, is the name of the complex where four cousins have opened a restaurant inside a plane in Ludhiana, a city known for its opulence. Here, more than the opulence, it’s the innovation that hits you.
     
    The location is the Verka Milk Bar premises on Ferozepur Road, where Milkfed, the staterun corporation that owns Verka brand, has reportedly leased out the land to Kulwant Singh for Rs 1 lakh a month. Jaswinder Singh, Kulwant’s cousin and the managing partner, does not give out a figure as to how much it cost and what’s the rent. But he is happy to describe how he did it: “I acquire scrapped planes and turn them into themed entertainment venues. In Punjab, it’s the first such project, and the first such restaurant in India.”
     
    While the plane is originally a 180-seater Airbus A320, the seating capacity of the restaurant, to make it airier, has been reduced to 65. It was brought in parts from Delhi in four trucks. “Specialised engineers put it together, and then the interiors were done in about four months.” Besides the plane parked in the front lawn, the complex has a bakery, cafe and a small banquet hall. “But people mostly prefer to sit inside the plane,” Jaswinder smiles.
     
    But rules dictate that apart from opulence, it cannot cater to the other love of Punjabis — non-vegetarian food. “It’s a pure-veg, multi-cuisine restaurant,” says Jaswinder, one of the four cousins — based in Ludhiana and Delhi — who are partners in the project.
     
    Ravinder Singh Jassal, kabaddi player from Sierra Leone in Africa who trades in gold, is among those waiting for tables along with his wife Amandeep Kaur when we visit.
     
     
     

    Drop by!! We are #NowOpen #AirplaneRestaurant #FirstTimeInPunjab ✈️ HAWAI ADDA 😍

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    “Our relatives were visiting from Jalandhar and Mohali. And they wanted to see something extraordinary. Here we are.” Jaswinder says he got the brainwave on his own “around three-four years ago”, and later found that there are other such projects abroad. How did he zero in on Ludhiana? “It’s a city that likes things that are different.”
     
    Where next? “We are still planning,” he says, “But Punjab’s other cities are surely on our mind.”
     
     
     
     

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