Traditional food is a favourite

Jul 31
12:42

2013

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One of the best experiences of life is savouring a dish which is melt in the mouth that you get transported to another world altogether. This phenomenon used to happen rarely before but in today’s’ gastronomically aware world, it is happening more often than ever before. Today we have a host of cuisines from all across the globe competing for our attention at the local mall’s food court. All the major cities of the world boast of being melting pot of many cultures and thus their gastronomic experiences are also a class apart.

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One of the best experiences of life is savouring a dish which is melt in the mouth that you get transported to another world altogether. This phenomenon used to happen rarely before but in today’s’ gastronomically aware world,Traditional food is a favourite Articles it is happening more often than ever before. Today we have a host of cuisines from all across the globe competing for our attention at the local mall’s food court. All the major cities of the world boast of being melting pot of many cultures and thus their gastronomic experiences are also a class apart. In the hurry to taste and experiment with modern cuisines and delicacies, one should not forget the recipes of one’s own motherland. Fortunately people are still hooked on to the traditional food of their regions and can’t have enough of that too.Thanks to innovative chefs who have started to dominate the food scene, the conventional cuisine of yore has got a modern twist and various fusions such as Japanese-American food including Teriyaki subway sandwiches, Indo-Chinese cuisine such as vegetarian fried rice and such others have emerged. If you really want to taste the traditional food of the huge subcontinent of India, then go in for a thali system of eating.This is an age old system of serving dishes to guests and is still used in many homes, restaurants and functions across the country. It is different from a buffet style of eating as in the buffet style you have to keep getting up to get whatever you want although the quantity is unlimited. In Indian restaurants serving thali style dishes, the waiters come to you with tubs and buckets full of the choicest dishes to pick from. Thus it is more convenient than the buffet system of eating. One of the best things about going to an eatery like this is that you get great hospitality. The staff members are instructed to treat patrons no less than Gods and follow the age old phrase of the country, ‘Aitithi Devo Bhav’ which translates to ‘Guests are akin to God’.These joints are mostly pure vegetarian in nature as that is the way of life followed by most Indians who are peace loving and against animal killing. Anyone who has ever been to Indian restaurants will vouch for the fact about how great the service is. It is our culture to not let any guest leave our house without making sure that their stomachs are filled with good stuff and their hearts are filled with love.It is difficult to compartmentalise the cuisines of India as any one set of dishes because this is such a vast and varied country that there is an exhaustive list of cultures and thus a long list of the cuisines of their regions. But suffice to say that the traditional food of the subcontinent is among the tastiest in the world and anyone who has not tried it out yet ought to do so as a once in a lifetime experience.