Recent content by freddi

Hey Salman, do you mean dishes like desserts, or actual sweets that you would buy to take away (what Americans would call candy I guess)? I love sweets/candy, but I tried Japanese 'wagashi' once and wasn't a fan - although they're called 'sweets', I think they're made of bean curd paste and not...

This is so interesting - I never figured that there might be a 'sweet street' somewhere. I've seen documentaries about Tokyo in Japan where there's a bookshop street and even a street devoted to shops selling nothing but waxy plastic imitation food (which restaurants put in their windows as a...

I know that horrible things happen in every town and city around the world, but this news story really made me gasp when I read it. What kind of people take their rage out on innocent people who weren't even involved in the original incident, and take it to the extent that these did? Assault...

Ha ha - I just saw that thread too! I don't know why the forum software didn't suggest it when I put in my title for this one (it seems to work pretty well in terms of offering suggestions of similar threads usually). But anyway. Yeah, the dancing is my favourite part - I have a workout game...

I've got some chai tea bags that I really like, so I assumed when I went to Starbucks that I'd also enjoy their chai latte. UGH! How wrong I was! It was so strong, I only forced myself to finish it because of how much it had cost me!

I wonder what the Indian definition of 'cute' is? I'd imagine it differs from culture to culture...Japanese 'kawaii' cute is pretty intense compared to what we would consider to be cute in Britain, for example.

Oh cool - I'll definitely do some more digging into that, thanks! Benti - I can't give you a solid definition, but it's essentially the Indian version of Hollywood, i.e. the hub of their movie industry. I'm by no means an expert, but the films I've seen involve lots of dramatic acting and...

Ha ha, Shaka - I read all the way through this thread thinking "what about coffee?" and got to your post where you ask about it. I love coffee so I'd be interested to know if there are lots of varieties or whether tea is the norm. Also - is lassi basically the same thing as a smoothie? Or is...

Me neither - and goat's cheese? Ugh!! I have no idea why restaurants think it's such a fancy thing to put in a dish when it's such a revolting...I mean, acquired...taste. I just LOVE lamb though - slow roasted with mint sauce and gravy...YUM!

Totally random question - is Bollywood somewhere you can visit? Like, are there behind-the-scenes tours you can do? I don't know an awful lot about the films but whenever I see one on TV I love the amazing choreography and it would be awesome to see how they're created.

If a person is not religious, would they be allowed to join in a ceremony? Genuinely curious - I don't go to church or anything, and never have done, so I don't really know how it all works. Are tourists excluded from certain things?

I think that's what freaks me out the most. I love my life, but there isn't anything in it that I have such a passion for that I'd be willing to kill or be killed for it. I mean, obviously I love my family, but if it came down to it, I genuinely don't believe I could sacrifice my life even for...

I'll be honest with you, for me the only format of banana that I'd be happy to consume is when it comes in liqueur form...and even then I have to mix it with a hefty dose of something else to make it tolerable. ;)

It's basically a contactless way of paying for things with the technology inside your iPhone or Apple Watch. You tap the device on the payment reader (like where you would put in your number for 'chip and PIN') and the payment goes through instantly. I love it because it's so quick and you...

So I saw in the news that some gunmen have attacked an Indian air base near the border with Pakistan today. It saddens me so much that not a day goes by without some story of guns or bombs being used by terrorists. I mean - war is terrible, obviously, but at least war is generally soldiers...