My journey to banglore: A good experience

Couple of months ago I had the opportunity to visit Bangalore for a training program in the ICICI bank. I was in my last year of Bachelor of Engineering. It was then first I attempt to eat egetarian food because there was no other choice. In the restaurant, they serve only non vegetarian food, which was mainly fish and meat with other vegetable dishes,however try to find a good vegetarian restaurant but didn't find any. In the first two or three days, I tried to fill my hunger but eventually gave up and literally starve. As soon as the sessions were over we hit the road and curse the heavy traffic and nonstop horning until we reach a restaurant or a fast food that would serve some ROTI or vegetarian dishes in the flavor i like, would make us feel ‘normal.’ However, it was not practical to do so during the week. Therefore, we suffered immensely during the first week. Nevertheless, we were lucky as we had some vegetarian in our program who used to bring home cook food for them. They felt pity for us struggling with the food every day and brought extra food so they can share with us. They used to joke saying that nortindian would not survive there long and we would look like skeletons when we return home. The experience from those days made me think that I would never be able to enjoy vegetarian northindian dishes ever.

However three months ago I had the opportunity to savor pure vegetarian food that was home made by a great cook. To my surprise, I enjoyed the food immensely even though there was nothing that i like. The meal included rice, sambhar, chapatti and some mixed vegetable dishes. Since then I had the opportunity to savor North Indian salsa, vegetable rice, pulaw, chutney and matha (made by curd) osay. I even tried some of the recipes and it turned out delicious to my family. My favourites include Idali, Sambhar, Chutney of coconut which is extremely good to eat with ‘roshi’ (chapati) and the vegetable fried rice mixed with pineapple. Unripe mango chutney and capsicum chutney is mouthwatering and one not to be missed. I must admit that I love all vegetarian food now and it is delicious unlike the canteen food I ate and despised few years ago. I guess it has something to do with the way food is cooked or wonder if my taste buds have changed with age.