I get asked a lot of questions about my India trip this past December. How was it, what did you do, where did you go?
They're all important questions, and I'll get to them, but none more important than, how was the food? Because oh man, the food is/was always amazzzzzing.
Taste is such a powerful mechanism for nostalgia and my taste buds have never failed me. Because every time I'd eat something there, I'd get powerful memories of the days I used to spend as a kid in India. I'd remember my dad treating us to guavas and other times when we used to pick up custard apples because that's all I wanted to eat one summer.
I personally like Thums Up better but to my disappointment, we had a hard time looking for it in glass bottles. There's a HUGE shift from glass to plastic bottles that is really messing with my nostalgia.
They're all important questions, and I'll get to them, but none more important than, how was the food? Because oh man, the food is/was always amazzzzzing.
Taste is such a powerful mechanism for nostalgia and my taste buds have never failed me. Because every time I'd eat something there, I'd get powerful memories of the days I used to spend as a kid in India. I'd remember my dad treating us to guavas and other times when we used to pick up custard apples because that's all I wanted to eat one summer.
I personally like Thums Up better but to my disappointment, we had a hard time looking for it in glass bottles. There's a HUGE shift from glass to plastic bottles that is really messing with my nostalgia.
Green Grape Juice being poured by this gentleman at a wedding reception
All photos above were taken with the Canon G15.
And finally, the iphone photo above is from a street vendor who made us the most amazing wada pao. No joke, it's exactly how I remembered it tasting like 3 years ago, 6 years before that, and as I was a kid.
What about you? Do you like Indian food?
Haha I recognized the word ANGOOR :D
ReplyDelete:P I think there's a lot of words that are similar in Hindi/Urdu/Farsi. My favorite is Zindagi! :)
DeleteI can totally relate to this. Wada pav, pani puri and so much more. I thought I'd devour them as soon as I reached Pune but when I actually did, I was scared out of my mind that I'd get sick so couldn't enjoy it as much. I hope you didn't face the same fears.
ReplyDeleteI think my stomach is immune to the food (not so much the water though!) so I don't have to worry too much about this. I've seen worse reactions on my friends though so it's definitely good to be careful!
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