Fooding

Soh-e (I don't know how to spell it, but that's how you pronouce it) eating at Triupati a street vendor that everyone eats at on Sudder street (I only eat there once in a while).

so today I had a really really good ice cream... it was mango ice cream served inside a mango... delicious!!!! The mango had been pitted and then apparently the icecream was put inside, and then it was frozen... and it was served quartered. When it was served I was expecting mango slices with a cone of icecream (the ice cream in the picture was a white cone shaped serving of ice cream with fruit slices beside it)... so I waited a bit to eat it wondering if they had served me the whole thing or if they were going into the back to get me a scoop of icecream... then I took the spoon and started to eat realising that what looked like all mango was acutally mango ice cream with chunks of mango YUMMY!

Also, I'm getting a taste for the Anise that everyone serves with your bill... I sorrta like it a lot... I hate licorice but I love the anise! (supposedly it reduces gas, but I suspect that it causes more than it removes...)

Also I've been eating at the street vendors and local places... yes yes I know you arent supposed to do that, and to a mild degree my stomach agrees, but you can't live in the culture and meet the people when you're living in the travel bubble of westernized areas.

Plus the benefit is that you get MUCH cheaper food when you go somewhere... maybe not always as good, but heck you're actually eating with people who could care less that you're a bag of money, but are instead honored by your presence and give you their best service, and largest smiles when you try to speak their toungue.