Curry for lunch, following curry for breakfast and curry for dinner last night. In fact, every single one of my 3 daily meals has been curry for the last 8 days, except for one day when I had omlette for brekky. Not that I'm complaining mind, as it is delicious, and much better than trhe worst food I've ever had, which is, in no particular order:
1. Refried beans in curry and chocolate (Mexican dish)
2. Nem - a Vietnamese "delicacy", fermented (ie rotting) raw pork
3. Thai fried locusts
4. Spam curry (a university staple)
5. Chicken spines on skewers (another Vietnamese special)
6. The alphabites Emma cooked me when we first met (black on one side, frozen on the other)
7. The steak and baked beans that DWiG (Dave with Glasses) cooked for me at university (steak grilled for 30 minutes till shrunk to pea size, then cut between the two of us. Beans boiled dry for 15 minutes on hob, then cup of water added to re-moisturise them)
I'm sure that some countries just invent spurious "delicious local specialities" to see how far they can push the credulity of dumb tourists. As for Emma, perhaps she was trying to discourage my advances by means of her cooking.
Anyway, just to re-emphasise, the curries are very nice. And I got a piece of cake thrown in today for some reason.
By the way, some of you have been asking what this India thing is all about - I'm doing a 1 month assignment sponsored by my firm with a charity called the Keystone Foundation http://keystone-foundation.net/web/ . They work with indigenous tribes and promote conservation. I'm helping them write a business plan for their Enterprise Development unit. It's certainly very different to accountancy (ie it's quite interesting).
On that note, best get back to work....
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