Travels, experiences and food

søndag den 28. marts 2010

23 March 2010 : Oye Amritsar

A Punjabi style restaurant with an authentic kinda feel to it. The place was designed with the intention of replicating a typical eating shop in punjab. I think they did a good job at doing so, especially with spelling errors and funny posters.. And if you liked their food youre supposed to shout 'Oye Amritsar'. It was unfortunate that we didnt exactly take too well to their food :( But it felt almost like punjab, minus the turbans... I have not been to punjab yet but i am saying it from all the pictures i have seen :))

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fredag den 26. marts 2010

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torsdag den 25. marts 2010

25 March 2010 : Overseas Womens Club Bangalore :)

Yesterday morning i went down to a really beautiful indian hotel called Leela Palace to join the Overseas Womens Club, Bangalore. It is a really good place to meet people from all over the world. There were about more than 250 ladies (and probably about 5 men). They meet there every thursday morning for coffee and tea.

I met about 5 ladies and it was quite fun talking to them. Two were indian ladies who have been all around the world - one of them actually was an english teacher in UK for 30 years :) She was really nice to talk to. I was also introduced to a really cool Japanese lady who is way more adventurous than i am :) And i was also introduced to a lady from Switerland. They were really fun to be with and i am looking forward to spending more time with them in the future.. :D

Overseas Womens Club

søndag den 21. marts 2010

21 March 2010 : Ulsoor lake - really?

For lunch we actually went to a really cool spanish restaurant called Zara The Tapas Bar. Their food was especially delicious and it is just like 3 minutes away from the place that we stay at. We had ordered about 6 tapas dishes, with two mocktails and 1 chocolate dessert. The bill came to about 1600 rupees - 160DKK - 50SGD. It actually is quite cheap in comparision to what we would have to pay in Denmark but for local standards it is considered quite expensive... But it was a good experience :)

Strawberry Pinacolada and Pinacolada mocktails

The best dish for me :) It is chicken with olives, white wine, garlic and some fresh herbs.

Chocolade mousse

After having our lunch at Zaras we took a walk to Ulsoor Lake. The walk there was quite unpleasent - especially the smell from all the sewage waste. We had to walk really fast to find the entrance of the lake. The water at the lake is really green, and i assume you would all know why it is so green. The lake is also filled with lots of trash, and there are some pictures on them. Yet, it was quite amazing to see the locals fishing at the lake and also taking a swim..... :O

One of the few locals fishing...

The guy in pink just got a small fish in his hands..

This little girl was looking at her father fishing. I hope that the catches wont be served for dinner..

Locals having a fun time swimming in the lake... umm

This is what you can see at the lake, it is full of trash and it has not been cleared

Some of the cleared trash that has been lying around for a loooong time. Flies were just savoring all the trash there. My hairs practically stood when i walked past this...

20 March 2010 : Commercial Street

A warm saturday with lots of sunshine, more than enough for the millions of people in Bangalore.. We started out with a nice pasta with meatballs (chicken) at Cafe Pascussi... We then walked down to MG Park, Cubbon Park, past the old and new governmental parliments, high court of Karnataka (Bangalore is in the state of Karnataka), went for virgin pinacoladas at The Capital (most sluggish environment for a so called 'perfect business manners' hotel. We were the only customers but they took 20mins to make 2 drinks, another 10 to bring a small piece of cake and 20 mins to bring our bill...)... Anyways after this exciting trip around the city on foot, we took an autorickshaw to the ever famous commercial street.

Commercial street is well known as the 'Shopping paradise'. It is a place where you can get really cheap tops which i like and i did get a kurti top which cost 150 Rupees-15DKK-5SGD. But, there always is a but. It is absolutely filled to the brim with people and at every single nook and corner there is a shop. Most of the shops sell almost about the same stuff just with different prices. And if you actually venture deeper into this district you would see many different kinds of things. We saw a little young cow - the thinnest cow ever, just wandering the streets mooing for some food or something like that. You can also see tonnes of people at the same shop bargaining like crazy, little food shops (which either of us would recommend to anyone) on the roads with their food out in the 30+degrees with flies constantly hovering over it and some little kid without any proper shoes-bottoms roaming around... Oh and the smog-traffik....

It is in all a very eye opening place. I am not sure if i can exactly describe the place accurately to you, but i hope that the pictures taken would help with that ;)