Haha pardon the pun... Tomorrow will be my last day in Bangalore and I'll be departing on a midnite flight back to M'sia. How time flies (I think I've been using this 3 words far too often :P ).
This surely has been an interesting trip for me, since I've never been to India. I'll list down some of my impressions:
1) Hygiene issues are not as bad as everyone says. Touch wood, but I've not had any problems with the foods here. Of course, I didn't dare to test my luck with the water served, though I believe it shouldn't be too much of a problem. Been living off Kinley (bottled by Coca Cola), but I do take chai and/or coffee every day.
2) As I mentioned in FB, I did not spot any Nissan cars, which I find kinda weird. There are a lot of Tata (not surprisingly), damn a lot of Maruti Suzuki, an influx of new Hyundai compacts, quite a lot of Innova (Toyota) and City (Honda). Fiat and Opels are also quite a handful. Even sighted a couple of Mercs, Beemer, an Audi A4 and Hummer H2. But no Nissan. Nil.
3) The people are out there to rip you off (since you're a foreigner). Most commonly the auto rickshaws, who demand for flat rate charges and refuses to run on meter. Kinda like M'sian taxi drivers. I've been to a restaurant that after I paid, the change was given with 10 rupees in coins hidden in the pocket of the bill holders.
4) The food portion are pretty huge. At least for the rice and noodles. The curries are very nice, and so are the hyderabadi biryanis (love the long grain basmathis). I finally get to differentiate my dosa(tosai) from my appams (I never really take note, only know my roti canai... which is supposed to be called parathas), and tasted a full set of Thali.
2 comments:
Great. At least u had your sweet time over there.. nice ya.
haha yeah i guess overall it's better than expected... coz i don't have much expectation in the first place :P
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