the weather has cooled in the last week, otherwise it was record high heat... actually it is not the heat but heat plus high humidity.
in the main south indian city of bangalore, the month of may i think had the highest temperature for may in many decades... hyderabad too quite hot and some people died of heat stroke in hyderabad's enclosing states of andhra and telangana.
i am not a person to complain about heat generally but this year was indeed hot hot.
iftaar... i know about two south indian regions, andhra and karnataka ( and not about kerala and tamil nadu )... there is a special preparation called "aash" ( maybe you have it ), which is a rice gruel with tomato, some leaves and little meat pieces ( chicken, i think )... it is to be consumed hot and is supplied at mosques... then sellers near mosques also sell onion/chicken samosas... other than these are the normal house food preparations... some make meat saalans ( like koftas ) and some are vegetable preparations.
mango milkshake... yum yum.