Needless to say I have been absent. Â And no good excuses here – just summer and traveling and sister’s wedding and school and just life. Â You know how sometimes life takes over and you just don’t have time for stuff? Â That long list of to-do’s? Those appointments you need to make and that desk you need to clear off? Â And last year’s art projects that need to be saved forever or discreetly made to disappear? Â And suddenly it’s almost November and your kid’s are still wearing sandals and shorts?? Â Yeah – that’s the life stuff I’m talking about.
So now it’s fall and we are back in school and back in NYC and back to life. Â I was just daydreaming today about all the yummy food we had in the nice warm places we visited this summer (while I pulled on my Uggs, mind you) and thought I might share some pictures. Â I should have taken so many more but most times I am just too excited to dig in and think of pictures until there is really not much left to take pictures of.
And about that fresh lime soda. Â Everywhere you go in India you can get a fresh lime soda which consists of freshly squeezed lime juice, a little tumbler of simple syrup and a bottle of bubbly soda water. Â You get to make it your way. Â You can have it sweet or salty. Â You can have it sweet AND salty. Â And you can have it with vodka if that is what you are needing that day. Â It is the first thing I order when I land in India and the last thing I have before I leave. Â Just can’t get it here. Â Plus the limes are different. Â And the air. Â And the bubbly water in the cute glass bottle. Â Fresh lime soda is India. Â I miss you!
Here are a few of the memorable meals.
- Leela Palace pizza – best in b’lore
- magic masala! our fav
- grilled corn
- cotton candy – universal!
- custard apple
- Aunty Saroj’s high tea
- fresh lime soda
- welcome coconut drink
- grilled tandoori shrimp
- chili cheese toast
- Houseboat chicken noodle soup
- house boat lunch!
- warm uppams
- cute little puffy bread basket
- kerela fish curry w/ string hoppers
- airport breakfast – iddlis and samosa
- laddu!
- other commercial st yummies
- cool HK truck
- cutest dim sum ever!
- HK grocery
- Hong Kong macroons
- tea house
- peanut dumplings
- flowering tea
- condensed milk toast and tea
- egg sandwich Hong Kong style
- can’t resist butter
- Macau portuguese meal
- bananas flambe
- Victoria’s Peak breakfast menu
- macau ferry meal
- not sure…meat?
- chinese noodle soup
- 100 year olds eggs
- preserved lime soda
and of course don’t forget to