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WΏΏdy;3481887 said:
They guy who came to recieve me at the airport was so drunk off his ass (i later learned that he filled himself with 2 bottles of brandy while he was on his way to get me) that he fell asleep outside the airport waiting for me and only woke up when the cops took him in. I met him 4 days later in my university.
So here's a photo of my hotel's welcoming party at the airport when I landed in Bengaluru at 3:30am.

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Z9u7yKH5zkoHOBKOOqLp5dLnCR5_GEPNjhBt02hGt6I?feat=directlink

Ordering food in nice fancy restaurants or big cities in china is easy. But elsewhere it a fucking nightmare (at least in the first few weeks when eating a snake or half developed duck embryo was unimaginable for me)
I had a similar experience. Oddly, I liked the country food a little better -- even if the city folk downplayed it. At least around Beijing, they subscribe heavily to the "Land of 1000 Sauces" cuisine philosophy, and I just tire easily when always eating 6 courses each loaded with some sticky, strange sauce made of fish paste and animal bits that they won't tell you about while laughing amongst themselves. Having a whole, grilled fish in the countryside was an awesome break to that.
 

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So here's a photo of my hotel's welcoming party at the airport when I landed in Bengaluru at 3:30am.

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Z9u7yKH5zkoHOBKOOqLp5dLnCR5_GEPNjhBt02hGt6I?feat=directlink
Brilliant! :lol2: A 'Welcome to India' sign would have made that picture absolutely perfect :D

I had a similar experience. Oddly, I liked the country food a little better -- even if the city folk downplayed it. At least around Beijing, they subscribe heavily to the "Land of 1000 Sauces" cuisine philosophy, and I just tire easily when always eating 6 courses each loaded with some sticky, strange sauce made of fish paste and animal bits that they won't tell you about while laughing amongst themselves. Having a whole, grilled fish in the countryside was an awesome break to that.
I loved the country food! Totally agree with the bold part :lol2:

I finally got fed up and gave in. To break my no no food eating fast in style i took a road trip to Shaolin temple with some like minded locals for 4 days and it ended up being a fortnight long stay. There is a really small town keifeng which is on the way and famous among the chinese as the village of food. Each night this particular colony would get crowded with food stalls with the nastiest looking food. That was the day when i ate everything from roasted termites to live lizards. It was awesome.

Ah the grilled fish :touched: i assume you had the walking catfish too roasted barbeque style. That was one of the best things to eat along with 'yangro thang' (sheep soup) because all the 24 hour hotels in the villages would serve these two and nothing else all night.

The best cuisine would definitely be the traditional heibei dishes. Dipping those 200 gms live aggressive octopus babies in those anus burning sauces and trying to chew and kill them before they stick those tentacles :touched: Healthy,cheap and fucking delicious!
 

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I just tried to make some South Indian filter coffee at home for the first time using the $8 brewer I bought in a housewares shop on MG Road. Ugh. Dreadful. The coffee was all wrong (I'm using some single origin First World stuff lying around and not the stuff cut with chicory). The milk was all wrong (non-fat out of a carton, and not like the unrefrigerated pot of the stuff they have in family kitchens sealed by the cream on top). Blechhhh. This is going to require a lot of learning to do right.
 
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I just tried to make some South Indian filter coffee at home for the first time using the $8 brewer I bought in a housewares shop on MG Road. Ugh. Dreadful. The coffee was all wrong (I'm using some single origin First World stuff lying around and not the stuff cut with chicory). The milk was all wrong (non-fat out of a carton, and not like the unrefrigerated pot of the stuff they have in family kitchens sealed by the cream on top). Blechhhh. This is going to require a lot of learning to do right.
Nah, yo. You gotta use milk that's fresh out of a cow's nipples and diluted with some water. That processed milk is not the right one to use.

Perhaps, I could ask my mom for her recipe. :D
 

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I just tried to make some South Indian filter coffee at home for the first time using the $8 brewer I bought in a housewares shop on MG Road. Ugh. Dreadful. The coffee was all wrong (I'm using some single origin First World stuff lying around and not the stuff cut with chicory). The milk was all wrong (non-fat out of a carton, and not like the unrefrigerated pot of the stuff they have in family kitchens sealed by the cream on top). Blechhhh. This is going to require a lot of learning to do right.
Yuck
 

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Meanwhile, one of my favorite all-time annual guides to coffee arrived in the mail from Italy while I was away. I am going to be so primed for the three weeks I'll be spending around Napoli and the Amalfi Coast in May. :weee:
 

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