Food here is fantastic, especially for vegetarians. I was sitting around a dinner table the other day, and it came to light that I was vegetarian. I then found out that the other 11/12 people at the table were also vegetarian. What's even more funny were the questions everyone at the table asked the non vegetarian: "how do you stand the smell of meat?" "what do you eat?" "why aren't you a vegetarian?" Usually, the vegetarian is under the spotlight!
Anything that is vegetarian has a green dot or is in green packaging, and if it isn't vegetarian, it's cooked separately, packaged in red, and clearly marked "NON-VEG."
I think my favorite kind of Indian food is Chaat - likely because a lot of it is fried!
More Chaat!
The McAloo Tikki (Aloo is Potato)... and it's Vegetarian! This needs to go International.
Ironically, KFC also has Veg food - here's their Veg Zinger!
Then there's the grilled panners, curries, daals, puris, rotis, chapatis, dosas, idlys, utapams, etc... Look out for a 200lb version of me when I'm done eating my way through India.
Spotted the toy train on the way up, and it took us about 5 seconds to wiz right past it.
I made the mistake of eating some momos (dumplings) on the ride up. BAD idea! Spent the evening in bed with a bucket and bottle of water. Luckily, I was pretty much recovered 2 days later when I arrived in Kolkata! The Darjeeling tea was nice though!
I was told that most of January was pretty cloudy, so I lucked out with the clear weather! Here's Kangchenjunga in left and Darjeeling on the right.
Unfortunately, Darjeeling, like all places in India, is not impervious to litter!
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