Needless to say I have been absent. Â And no good excuses here – just summer and traveling and sister’s wedding and school and just life. Â You know how sometimes life takes over and you just don’t have time for stuff? Â That long list of to-do’s? Those appointments you need to make and that desk you need to clear off? Â And last year’s art projects that need to be saved forever or discreetly made to disappear? Â And suddenly it’s almost November and your kid’s are still wearing sandals and shorts?? Â Yeah – that’s the life stuff I’m talking about.
So now it’s fall and we are back in school and back in NYC and back to life. Â I was just daydreaming today about all the yummy food we had in the nice warm places we visited this summer (while I pulled on my Uggs, mind you) and thought I might share some pictures. Â I should have taken so many more but most times I am just too excited to dig in and think of pictures until there is really not much left to take pictures of.
And about that fresh lime soda. Â Everywhere you go in India you can get a fresh lime soda which consists of freshly squeezed lime juice, a little tumbler of simple syrup and a bottle of bubbly soda water. Â You get to make it your way. Â You can have it sweet or salty. Â You can have it sweet AND salty. Â And you can have it with vodka if that is what you are needing that day. Â It is the first thing I order when I land in India and the last thing I have before I leave. Â Just can’t get it here. Â Plus the limes are different. Â And the air. Â And the bubbly water in the cute glass bottle. Â Fresh lime soda is India. Â I miss you!
Here are a few of the memorable meals.
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- Leela Palace pizza – best in b’lore
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- magic masala! our fav
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- grilled corn
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- cotton candy – universal!
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- custard apple
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- Aunty Saroj’s high tea
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- fresh lime soda
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- welcome coconut drink
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- grilled tandoori shrimp
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- chili cheese toast
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- Houseboat chicken noodle soup
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- house boat lunch!
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- warm uppams
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- cute little puffy bread basket
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- kerela fish curry w/ string hoppers
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- airport breakfast – iddlis and samosa
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- laddu!
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- other commercial st yummies
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- cool HK truck
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- cutest dim sum ever!
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- HK grocery
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- Hong Kong macroons
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- tea house
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- peanut dumplings
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- flowering tea
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- condensed milk toast and tea
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- egg sandwich Hong Kong style
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- can’t resist butter
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- Macau portuguese meal
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- bananas flambe
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- Victoria’s Peak breakfast menu
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- macau ferry meal
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- not sure…meat?
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- chinese noodle soup
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- 100 year olds eggs
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- preserved lime soda
and of course don’t forget to
