September 10

Little India!
Syd and I went on a self-guided food walk today. But we do that unofficially everyday if we are honest. First we went to this Chinese coffeeshop with famous hot cross buns with kaya (egg) jelly (tastes like custard). We also watched and sampled these rice dumplings being made in bamboo leaves (at another place down the street). Then we walked to the MRT and went to Little India. We walked around that area and tried Lassi (a yogurt drink) and then went to an Indian restaurant. Everyone ate on banana leaves and with their hands. I tried to eat with my hands, but rice and various curries are hard to eat by hand! And you can only use your right hand because the left hand is considered unclean. Their is definitely some skill involved to eating with your hand. I like Chinese food better with chopsticks, but I will stick to some sort of utensil if possible, food all in your nails gets gross (I think). Also at that Indian restaurant we got to try this "pulled tea" that has sweetened condensed milk and is airated by hand (hard to describe). It was good, but we were so full, so we are going to get some tomorrow to enjoy. We rolled ourselves back to the MRT and walked off our food by shopping at some Asian department store that is in New York that I had never heard of before, but Syd had.