Monday, May 17, 2010

India Part 13 - FOOD

India Part 13 - FOOD

Gourmet Tan has finally be able to appreciate the cliché that Singapore is actually a food haven. It has dawned on him that the most difficult thing for him to leave behind when he leave for India is actually Bearbear Tan the food. But it is such an irony when one of the reasons that attract him to India is its food and yet he misses the food back home.

There is not much variety of food to choose from with his small budget , and finding good food is even harder. The only sure-hit food in India is the typical fast food outlets from McDonalds and Subway, but they are hard to come by. Gourmet Tan estimated that the odds of seeing a fastfood outlet in India is as rare as seeing an upskirt moment.
McDonalds but no upskirt. Can't have best of both worlds.


KFC and Hot Male (on the right), Both of both worlds!


After eating the same food over and over again in India, Gourmet Tan is now confident enough to educate his readers on the traditional food of India.

First of all, we shall study a family of food known as Curry. In Singapore, if you order a bowl of Curry, it will always be a bowl of Curry. But in India the mention of curry is as complicated as trying to debate if the universe was truly created by the Big Bang or by God. Curry takes into a much more different array of flavors in India. Lets take a look at some of the curries.


Mughagal curry


Kadai curry


Hyderabadi curry


Butter chicken curry


The curries shown above are just the scratch of the surface. There are still 23094 different kind of curries that Gourmet Tan has yet to try.

Now we will look at another family of food known as the staple food. The main staple food in India is Chapatti. The Indians would prefer chapatti over rice, just like how Gourmet Tan Singaporean men would prefer love than sex. To the untrained eyes, Chapatti may look like the typical Prata of Singapore, but they are not the same. In fact, Gourmet Tan has discovered that there are 2 other food in India which look like Prata as well, called Naan and Roti.






If you think the above pictures all are the same food, you are not alone, but definately wrong. Don’t worry, cos’ even Gourmet Tan has difficulties identifying them when he first came to India.

What is the order of the food shown above, from top to bottom?
Naan, Chapatti, Roti, Roti prata
Roti, Roti prata, Chapatti, Naan
Chapatti, Roti, Naan, Roti prata
I dun care, can give me the name of the Mcdonald Girl?
I dun care, can give me the name of the Hot Male?
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If you wish to taste all the above mentioned food, now is your chance! Just guess the name of the food correctly and Gourmet Tan will send them to you from India! The Winners will be declared on the next update.

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