Cultural Stew

Just back from dinner in Bangalore.  It was fine, but it was a truly bizarre cross cultural experience.  My main course dish was described as:

Creole spiced roast chicken served with stir fried vegetables and tumeric tempered spagetti.

Desert was:

Nutty pistachio mouse flavored with tequilla.

The red wine was from a Shiraz grape but grown and fermented by the Sula wineries in Maharashtra, India.

The restaurant was on the 10th (the top) floor of a hotel in one of the taller buildings in Bangalore.  It emphasised Cajun food, however the waiters and waitresses were all wearing cowboy hats mimicking a Texan tourist restaurant.

This was a far contrast to my first trip to Bangalore (2003?) when we traveled down a dirt alley to a local restaurant serving south Indian cuisine and then went to a different local restaurant for specialty deserts.

The biggest change in the past year is the opening of a new airport, some 35 km away from central Bangalore.  The new airport is nice, the highway is plausible, but traffic remains a problem.  Too bad they didn't contract for a high speed rail link at the same time.

Off to Hyderabad in the morning...

Comments

[Landin]

Thanks for sharing your experience :)

[Brough Turner]

Thanks Landin. Subsequently I've had two more traditional Indian meals, one at the Hyderabad House, a Biryani restaurant in Hyderabad, and the other for lunch today at the Great Kabab House in Noida, a suburb of Delhi. So perhaps the, admittedly very interesting, experience in Bangalore is the anomaly.