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For familiar Indian cuisine with a spark of the exotic. – – The Food – Simpler than the cuisine of the north, with fewer foreign influences, Southern Indian cuisine is vegetable-heavy, relying largely on rice and pulsing along with lots of highly seasoned veggies. Aside from the standard appetizers, there are delicately flavored vadai (fried lentil donuts) and strange rice and lentil balls called pulugulus (say that three times fast.) Huge vegetable-filled rice and lentil crepes, called dosai, enfold mellow potato-onion curry, among other things. Our visit's only…