Day 10: Visiting more family and Indo-Chinese!!!!

We visited my grandmother, aunt and cousin today. It was nice seeing them after such a long time.

Day 10 and I still hadn't had any Chinese food. Chinese food in India is very different from Chinese food anywhere else. It is more Cantonese than Szechuan and includes dishes like Gobi (cauliflower) Manchurian, Chilli Chicken and, of course, Fried Rice. I grew up on this food because my Dad had an Chinese restaurant in Malleswaram and it was the best food around. He had a small folding hot dog cart-like contraption and he cooked and sold Chinese food from it to mostly college students from nearby MES College. His cart was initially parked outside CV Raman's house and I used to pedal up every evening on my little bike and get a fried rice and chilli pork. Once, his cooks decided to strike and walked off the job so my Dad and I ran a two man operation for a few days. He would do the cooking and I would do the washing up. Seeing that is was still successful without them, the cooks came back on the job. That was probably my first experience with (dis)organized labor! Even to this day I absolutely hate it when people threaten to walk off the job or any kind of direct union action.

Well, we went to Mainland China on Church Street for some yummy Chinese food. Twiggy was appalled by the price of 200 rupees for a bowl of white rice and in a typical Auntyji tone said "200 rupees for a bowl of rice? At this rate I will bring my own bloody rice cooker and make my own rice!!!" The food was great and we had the pepper lamb, chilli chicken, fried rice and of course, Kingfisher beer. Yummy!