Mild, Hot and very hot spices in India test the same
By jmafofo
@jmafofo (359)
South Africa
August 27, 2007 11:53am CST
I was in the Southern part of India (Tamilnadu) recently and although I enjoyed the hospitality I had a terrible time adjusting to the food. First it seems more than 90% of the people are vegetarian (meat is scarce on the menu - cows are holy) and second the food is just too hot (spicy). Any comments coz I will be going back there soon.
2 responses
@pearloyster (717)
• India
8 Sep 07
Maybe true that most of those who were present were vegetarians but 90% of Indians including me are non-vegetarians.
@jmafofo (359)
• South Africa
8 Sep 07
I think that might be true, see I was in the Southern tip of India and I was told it is very different from the Northen parts such as Trivandrum going up Mumbai, Delhi etc or even the closest Chennai. However, we were told that cattle are holy so are gots and sheep. Pigs are just not seen as food so that leaves chicken and fish. Snakes are holy, so is the tiger, elephant etc. As a visitor the take home message is that meat in general is not encouraged.
But, but I have never seen people who are so nice, helpful, friendly and generally very hospitable compared to what Indian people in the Southern tip of India are. But may be that culture too is unique to Southern India.
@pearloyster (717)
• India
8 Sep 07
Hi, I'm from Karnataka and if you are comming to India again you are most welcome. You say that 90% of Indians are vegges but i dissagree with you becoz it is the other way round. I agree that beef is scarcely available becoz people treat cow as God here and so it is holy for us. But we do eat chicken, mutton and all types of sea food.
@jmafofo (359)
• South Africa
8 Sep 07
I stayed at Hotel Singaar in Kanyakumari and they do this buffet type dinners where you serve yourself. Of all the dishes they had only one was meat (chicken). Meat orders took 45 minutes to prepare and vegetarian was 5 minutes (as indicated in the menu). Of course (naturally) I enquired from the head chef who told me that up to 90% of the people who dined there were vegetarian.
