Food I

I was thinking today about how my life differs in India from LA and one of the major differences is food. Food in general. What I eat here. How I eat here. What I can eat here. Etcetera, etcetera...

First and foremost, its really hard to eat Indian food for multiple days a week, much less multiple times a day. Here's why...SAUCE. While most Indian sauces are incredibly delicious, they are also very heavy, which make you feel like you've swallowed a fairly large Ganesh statue afterwards. So, while I would love to be truly authentic while I'm here, I also need to function. So, I have to come up with alternative meals - which presents more issues...

Protein is really difficult to get in your diet out here. First, fish. Usually, in LA, you insist on your fish being "fresh." Well here, if you're told that your fish was freshly caught, you look out to the Arabian Sea...and pass. Seriously, it's gross. Second, chicken. One of the guys here from Disney only eats white meat chicken. It's pretty entertaining to watch him try to communicate this to every single restaurant we go to. Basically, white meat is hard to find, bones are easy to find, and I guess as long as I don't get the bird flu, I'll be happy.

Due to the aforementioned issues, I've had to get sort of creative with my protein intake. I eat a lot of peanut butter, lentils, paneer, etc. Also, the hotel food is pretty fantastic and very comparable to what you'd have in the States. My favorite is the Cider Seared Chicken. It's one of their "healthy" dishes and while they technically only serve it on the room service menu, I can usually get them to serve it to me in the restaurant too.

Finally, vanilla ice cream. I'm not sure what it is about their vanilla ice cream here, but it is good to the point of unbelievability. I'm serious. It's amazing.

Well, that's it for now. Please do me a favor...go have sushi tonight and toast a glass of sake to me. What I wouldn't give for a spicy tuna roll right now... :)