Eating Out - Gujarati Style (Pictures added)

Daniel At the Agashiye, Ahmdabad's most exclusive restaurant, I tried the traditional Gujarati Thali. This experience was worth it's money.
280 Rupees (6 US$).

Thali is a plate of cooked vegetables, sauces and pickled fruit, eaten with naan (bread) and rice. You wash your right hand before you start eating, and eat with your right, while you drink and serve yourself from the community plates using our left hand.

The food was excellent. All vegetarian, and all you can eat.

Especially interesting are the mouth fresheners yo get after the meal. Some spices, sometimes sugar and/or sesame, to leave a fresh taste in your mouth.

Ahmedabad's streets are a combination of luxurious snack shops and cheap food on wooden carts next to each other. By now my stomach has adjusted well enough to allow me to eat most of the food on the streets, but I still prefer "real" restaurants.

But the really luxurious coffeshops are hard to get used to. I got myself an excellent chilled coffee with ice cream (RS 75, 1.25US$). Walking along the street with my coffe in my hand, some beggar\'s kids came asking for a few Rupees. The minimum daily wage around here is 55 RS (1 US$), so you feel pretty arrogant sending them away with the shake in your hand.

But should you encourage children begging?
To whom do you give and to whom do you not?
And how much?

Well the answer is part of the India experience, I guess...

May 31: I have to admit that after I finished writing the above text, I went back to the good coffeeshop to have another cup.

June 04: I added the pictures

Mouth Fresheners

Good Coffee

And cheap food on the street