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My life in
I thought I’d write a bit
about the food here in
First of all, people in
Karnataka eat South Indian
food, which is very different from the type of food I’m used to eating in
Indian restaurants back in the
As one could imagine, the food here is very spicy.
I had heard that the South had the hottest food in the subcontinent. Of course
I haven’t been to any place in this country but
There is practically no meat in the South Indian diet, which is frustrating for me. I’m not that big a carnivore, but vegetarianism just isn’t for me at this point in my life. So, considering that Bangaloreans don’t eat much meat, they must eat a lot of vegetables, right? Not really. That’s been disappointing, because I like vegetables. The diet is basically starch and oil with some green stuff thrown in, and of course milk products. And everything is fried, it seems, and a lot of stuff is breaded and fried, which makes me wonder how in hell I am going to avoid becoming a big fatass before coming back home.
Almost everything is accompanied by rice or has rice in it. Today my host family’s mother made dosa in the morning, which I only today learned was made with ground up lentils and, of course, rice. Then she served rice for lunch. For dinner I just ate some leftover rice with some cheese and cabbage. I mean, I’m an Iranian, and I’m getting sick of rice. Think about that for a second.
But generally, the food here is tasty. The sweets are very nice, and so
is the coffee (I’m not a coffee drinker, but I may return as one). And I
haven’t even tried any of the other types of restaurants in this city.
Luckily, fruits here are cheap and sold everywhere. Right now I’m eating a pretty good orange, which I got for about 75 cents/kilo. Because my stomach is sensitive to a lot of stuff here, I have to stay away from anything that isn’t peeled, which is too bad. But the cheapness and deliciousness of pomegranates more than makes up for that – they’re about $1 per kilo.