I noticed this link was in a reply under a different topic: http://www.nandyala.org/mahanandi/archives/2006/03/21/masala-dosa/
Scroll down and see how they make the dosa!

These are interesting pics and a good attempt!  But a dosa is supposed to be lace-like - very very thin and crispy - thinner than a crepe perhaps.  There is a technique in which you place a ladle of the batter on the hot tawa and then use the ladle to quickly start making circles in the center of the batter moving outward to spread the batter!  it is hard to describe.  This way you get the proper dosa with a net or lace like effect.  These are very popular in Singapore as the indian community is mostly south indian.  The ones I have had in India and in indian restaurants in the states are like 2 feet across!!!  They are great!!!

I use a Baba's meat masala for basic chicken curry dishes..wonder if its the same.  But i get it from Malaysia whenever I go as I dont know anyplace else that has it.  It has a huge range of spices in it.

Ashes, it came out really well yesterday!!!!  So good my husband was saying he was going to eat it again today but I had to tell him we finished it all!!  I only made a little bit of base sauce and used 2 chicken breasts.  I dont have room to store base sauce, not in my little fridge, nor in my freezer - so I have to make it fresh each time.  I am making this for company on wednesday!!!
I think someone was looking for a base sauce that wasnt brown in color, but more pale - so this one would work for them.  If only I could remember where that was.
Thanks for the great recipe.  Oh, the only change i made to the final step was that I didnt add any coconut to the finished product.

you are right in that authentic can be south and north indian both...but there is such differences between the cultures, languages, and food between the north and south that mostly up north we dont know anything about the south besides the basic popular south indian dishes.  it really is a different culture in the south.  It is different in the south as most people in the south know hindi and eat lots of north indian dishes and cook them a lot.  My family has always had many south indian friends but even they never made tea that way - perhaps if they normally do, they made it the north indian way for us!
Your experiment proved my point that maybe in southern parts of India they drink tea differently.
But it is not possible to generalize about indians if you are only talking of south indian customs.  yes, I know pulled tea is the transation of teh tarik, thats why i said that!
authentic or not, i dont like generalizations because statements made by some people are misleading and thats why there are issues between the british and indians in the UK.  But i am NOT going into that topic.  I am going to bother "defending" indians anymore as I think in the UK, indians means pakistanis, bangladeshis, nepalis and whoever else.  The misconceptions are too many and anyways, I am not from the UK so I dont understand the british way of thinking!!!  sorry to have bothered to try to explain the British misconceptions about indians.