India Food Tour

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When it comes to food and tasty delights India is a blend of tradition and modernism. You’ll find doughnuts and burgers side by side traditional Mughlai or south India cuisine.

In any types of Indian food the most striking similarity you’ll find is spices. You cannot escape spices in any of the various cuisines in India. Be it the North Indian Mughlai, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kashmiri cuisine or the coastal kitchen or traditional South Indian variety spices rule everywhere.

Other staples of Indian food are rice, potatoes, and varieties of flour to make rotis (Indian bread). They form the backbone of the foods eaten in India.

One of the best ways to sample authentic Indian food is at an Indian home, rather than at a restaurant. Indian food is not just unique to a particular state, but also to different communities within the same state. Dining at an affluent and educated Indian's home is not very different from the western way.

However, in a traditional middle-class home, one may be expected to sit in a cross-legged, yogic position on the floor and eat with the right hand from a banana leaf. It is customary to leave one's footwear outside the door to the house. Other rules of home-dining that have to be followed include:

• do not eat with you left-hand, even if you are naturally left handed
• never help yourself, wait until you're served
• never offer food from your plate, even if it's a bowl and untouched

Whatever the case, food in India is something every foreigner will look forward to, but be cautious as too much of spice at a single time might not go well with your tummy initially.

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