India
I went an Indian restaurant in Fujisawa with my old friends a week ago.
The first mouthful reminded me about the trip to India about 10 years ago. The taste of a tandoori chicken was almost the same as one I ate in India.
In the airplane of Air India, in the building of Deli Airport, in towns, the air is filled with a smell of spices like curry. It was dry, dusty, spicy smell.
At the top of the buildings, peacocks with their tail feathers spread in a fan looked down us. Monkeys were running on roofs. Sometimes crowds of cows got in our way. In that case, we had no choice but to stop our car and to wait until they passed by.
We must not move them out of the way. Because cow are divine messengers in India.
When we got on a train, our tour guide bought light lunches for us. It was a deep- fried bread in which it has curry. It was just like a Japanese curry pan.
He also bought cups of Chai ( Is this spelling correct?). Chai is a kind of milk tea in India.
I never forget about the cups. It was a beige, thin, unglazed, and reversed cone-shaped cup. It looked just like a Yayoi pottery.
From the bottom of the cup which it was the apex of the cone, the tea slowly leaked out. So we had to drink it quickly. I liked it. During I drank it, I was thinking about a way to bring back it home without breaking.
But the tour guide took the cups away from us and went the vestibule. Then he threw them away from the door to the ground along the railroad track. The doors of train were still opened even if the train was running!
The next moment, the cups were broken and returned to the dust, the earth of India.
Maybe, they will become other cups again someday.
What we need to dispose containers of that first food were only our own arms. We did't need to waste any fossil fuel. I think McDonald’s should learn this recycle system.
By the way, I often make Chai. It's really easy but the taste is real. We can get ingredients of Chai in grocery store.
Cardmon is a spice which I add to Chai. When I went for a walk around the hotel in India,an indian told us that Indian called Cardamon was "the tree of brushing teeth". Indian use its leaf to clean their teeth.
Ingredients
milk, grated ginger, sugar, tea(Darjeeling or Assam)
cardamon, cinnamon, clove
1. Put milk and tea into a milk pan
2. Extract the essence of tea on a low flame ( Never boil.)
3. Add sugar, grated ginger, and spices. Stir them.
4. Filter 3 through tea filter
The first mouthful will lead you to India.
The spices will work magic on you.
The first mouthful reminded me about the trip to India about 10 years ago. The taste of a tandoori chicken was almost the same as one I ate in India.
In the airplane of Air India, in the building of Deli Airport, in towns, the air is filled with a smell of spices like curry. It was dry, dusty, spicy smell.
At the top of the buildings, peacocks with their tail feathers spread in a fan looked down us. Monkeys were running on roofs. Sometimes crowds of cows got in our way. In that case, we had no choice but to stop our car and to wait until they passed by.
We must not move them out of the way. Because cow are divine messengers in India.
When we got on a train, our tour guide bought light lunches for us. It was a deep- fried bread in which it has curry. It was just like a Japanese curry pan.
He also bought cups of Chai ( Is this spelling correct?). Chai is a kind of milk tea in India.
I never forget about the cups. It was a beige, thin, unglazed, and reversed cone-shaped cup. It looked just like a Yayoi pottery.
From the bottom of the cup which it was the apex of the cone, the tea slowly leaked out. So we had to drink it quickly. I liked it. During I drank it, I was thinking about a way to bring back it home without breaking.
But the tour guide took the cups away from us and went the vestibule. Then he threw them away from the door to the ground along the railroad track. The doors of train were still opened even if the train was running!
The next moment, the cups were broken and returned to the dust, the earth of India.
Maybe, they will become other cups again someday.
What we need to dispose containers of that first food were only our own arms. We did't need to waste any fossil fuel. I think McDonald’s should learn this recycle system.
By the way, I often make Chai. It's really easy but the taste is real. We can get ingredients of Chai in grocery store.
Cardmon is a spice which I add to Chai. When I went for a walk around the hotel in India,an indian told us that Indian called Cardamon was "the tree of brushing teeth". Indian use its leaf to clean their teeth.
Ingredients
milk, grated ginger, sugar, tea(Darjeeling or Assam)
cardamon, cinnamon, clove
1. Put milk and tea into a milk pan
2. Extract the essence of tea on a low flame ( Never boil.)
3. Add sugar, grated ginger, and spices. Stir them.
4. Filter 3 through tea filter
The first mouthful will lead you to India.
The spices will work magic on you.
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