Indian food
I would like to write about my experience, sightings and feelings on the three trips to India I have been to in October 2004, December 2004 and March 2005.
The first article cannot be about anything else than Indian food. It is so different; its tastes are so exotic that it becomes one of the best and at the same time one of the worst thing about whole trip.
I had three types of food in India - breakfast in hotel, lunch in canteen and dinner in a restaurant. Breakfast was "European", I was really looking forward to it at the end of my stay, because it was not Indian :-)
Lunch in canteen was the most Indian food I tasted during whole stay in India. Its contents never changed - it was always yellow pea soup, rice, two types of Indian nuns (mostly flour and water) and some very spicy sauce.
Actually, everything from Indian cuisine was spicy. And when they say about a food it is spicy - it means it is so spicy, that you won't be able to eat it.
Dinners were good on average. After some time, we found out in which shop is the best pizza and in which restaurant is the best combination of cleanliness, tasty food and good price.
The average price for common dinner (chicken, sauce, rice or cheese-nuns, after-meal) was about Rs. 250, i.e. $6.
We drank originally Australian beer (Foster's), which price was about Rs. 80, i.e. $2. It was good, almost as good as Czech beer :-)
Many Indians are vegetarians and in each restaurant the menu is divided into veg and non-veg. If it is not, than everything is veg. It is not common to eat pork as it is unclean; consummation of beef is very rare as cows are sacred in India. So if they eat meat, it is usually chicken. I don't understand why pig is dirty and chicken is not, but it is India - do not try to understand it.
I have to admit that I liked Indian food... for the first two weeks... afterthat, I was looking forward to our Czech cuisine so much... hmmm...
If you eat with Indian people, don't let your left hand on the table and if you want to do it their way - don't use your left hand at all. There is one simple reason - left hand is unclean, because they don't use paper on their lavatories... and that is the reason for not using left hand :-)
I hope I don't have to explain it further as it is really disgusting. :-)
To summarize, Indian cuisine is good to taste, good for experimenting, but not for normal use. Our Euro-American stomachs are really not used to digest it for longer time.
The next article will be about Indian transportation.
Enjoy your meal!
The first article cannot be about anything else than Indian food. It is so different; its tastes are so exotic that it becomes one of the best and at the same time one of the worst thing about whole trip.
I had three types of food in India - breakfast in hotel, lunch in canteen and dinner in a restaurant. Breakfast was "European", I was really looking forward to it at the end of my stay, because it was not Indian :-)
Lunch in canteen was the most Indian food I tasted during whole stay in India. Its contents never changed - it was always yellow pea soup, rice, two types of Indian nuns (mostly flour and water) and some very spicy sauce.
Actually, everything from Indian cuisine was spicy. And when they say about a food it is spicy - it means it is so spicy, that you won't be able to eat it.
Dinners were good on average. After some time, we found out in which shop is the best pizza and in which restaurant is the best combination of cleanliness, tasty food and good price.
The average price for common dinner (chicken, sauce, rice or cheese-nuns, after-meal) was about Rs. 250, i.e. $6.
We drank originally Australian beer (Foster's), which price was about Rs. 80, i.e. $2. It was good, almost as good as Czech beer :-)
Many Indians are vegetarians and in each restaurant the menu is divided into veg and non-veg. If it is not, than everything is veg. It is not common to eat pork as it is unclean; consummation of beef is very rare as cows are sacred in India. So if they eat meat, it is usually chicken. I don't understand why pig is dirty and chicken is not, but it is India - do not try to understand it.
I have to admit that I liked Indian food... for the first two weeks... afterthat, I was looking forward to our Czech cuisine so much... hmmm...
If you eat with Indian people, don't let your left hand on the table and if you want to do it their way - don't use your left hand at all. There is one simple reason - left hand is unclean, because they don't use paper on their lavatories... and that is the reason for not using left hand :-)
I hope I don't have to explain it further as it is really disgusting. :-)
To summarize, Indian cuisine is good to taste, good for experimenting, but not for normal use. Our Euro-American stomachs are really not used to digest it for longer time.
The next article will be about Indian transportation.
Enjoy your meal!
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