Real India curry. Greasy as anything.

We were definitely ready to leave India now, and were getting really excited about Japan: after picking up our passports complete with Chinese visas, we bought a Japan Lonely Planet for a very reasonable price and that night decided to treat ourselves to a relatively expensive meal out in Parikrama, a rotating restaurant I had eaten at during my last trip to India. I remembered the food was OK, nothing special, but the view was great and the whole thing was quite fun. Since it was nearly our last evening in India we decided to go for the full dish each and what a place to do it!

My food was shiny with fat. It seems in India the more you pay for your food the more fat is in it. Obviously they still associate fat with prosperity and wealth instead of the other way around like we now do in Scotland. And middle-class Indians certainly are fat, on the whole. I'm sure they must at least rival Glaswegians for the higher heart attack rate. The meal came to Rs1600 for the two of us, which is not expensive by Glasgow standards but it's probably more than ten times what we had normally been paying. A young Indian couple came in and sat at the next table while we were eating and the girl looked really shocked when she opened the menu and pointed out the Rs40 rotis to her blanching boyfriend; they are usually no more than Rs4.

Sinister-looking building on way back from Parikrama

written by  The Happy Couple on July 1, 2009 from Delhi, India
from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon
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Gambatte kudasai. Nihon wa subarashi desu yo. Nikko, Kyoto to Osaka ni ikimasho.

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Alisdair, Helen and Hamsih

written by  Alisdair on July 22, 2009

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