As in food love. I am in love with the food here. I am not exadgerating when i say that i have loved every meal and every snack i have had since setting foot on the plane (air india). I have loved every single bite. I have not had one single mediocre meal. Everything is delicious! I sometimes wonder if i will find the food bland when back in the states! So, I could talk about every dish in great detail, but I will tell you about just one particularly memorable meal we had.
The other night we were at the dingy hotel in our neighborhood which has our favorite restaurant on its rooftop. We go here regularly because it is really convenient, has a great atmosphere, and as in every other restaurant i have been to - the food is excellent. Like in every other restaurant there is always a gaggle of waitors doing pretty much nothing but serving our every need. Honestly there are always at least 10 or more waitors at each restaurant and usually like 3 tables of people. At this restuarant they are awkwardly formal and so sweet to us. They notice when our straw drops on the table and give us a new one, they serve each of the dishes on to our plates... They are used to us here, and we are used to them.
This night we tried an appetizer - a tandoori gobi dish. This means that it is cauliflower in a great spice, grilled up. Being the dairy fanatic that i am I was hoping we would order the cheese one, but was happy to have the cauliflower as well.
I HAVE NEVER HAD ANYTHING SO YUMMY IN MY WHOLE LIFE.
We were practically rolling on the floor it was so good. I cannot explain and I do not understand how cauliflower could ever taste this good. And I like cauliflower.
So while we are eating our gobi in awe one of our ten waitors stops by and asks if we like it. I said, as enthusiastically as i have ever said anything in my entire life, "I LOVE IT!!"
The waitor began to smile and then giggle and was then giggling uncontrollably. He left our table laughing the whole way.
Which is when i remembered that the word "love" is not necessarily used in this sense in different parts of the world. I realized that I think I basically just said that I would like to have sex with the cauliflower.
I think this is the first I have made an Indian really laugh. They find us very amusing just by existing and asking the dumb questions we ask, but this is the first that one has really really laughed at us .
It was all together an incredible dining experience. One among many.
