In Singapore, I live to eat. In Hyderabad, I eat to live.
So far, that is how I am feeling about food though we are discovering more interesting places to eat. Many thanks to our new friend - Vidul who has brought us to excellent places.
Last night, we went to Little Italy, tucked somewhere in the corner of Jubilee Hills. It is a chain of Italian vegetarian restaurants over India. The place was done up very chic, just like any place you would see in Singapore or Hong Kong. Too bad that my iphone could not take proper night shots. :( That's why I need my new camera soon! LX-5, when are you going on retail in Singapore?
Today, she introduced us to Naturals - a chain of ice cream parlours where no preservatives are used. They mainly have lots of fruit flavours (watermelon, custard apple, mango, jackfruit, etc). I had the chiku ice cream and it was so so so good! The place is walking distance from the service apartment, so I am definitely going back. Oops forgot to also mention that it had cost only about SGD$1 per scoop. :p
On our own, we have been less adventurous - eating at known places like MacDonald's, Thai Express, Subway, KFC. We had passed this restaurant the other day which I had read about before online and went in for lunch. Ohris - where we had the very yummy fruit naan (its better than garlic naan!), Paneer Tikka Lababdar (Cottage cheese with honey and mirch) and chicken briyani. The basmatic rice grain as compared to our normal rice grain is at least like twice as long! The portions here are huge so we cant order too much. Well, when and if I DO have visitors, I will bring you guys here.
Breakfast is the interesting bit. This is provided by the service apartment so being very safe for the first 2 days - we had opted for the international b'fast (fried eggs, toast, warm milk, jam, butter, "lao hong" cornflakes/ cornflakes that had gone soft, tea). And we didn't drink the milk. It was a miserable affair until the hubby decided it was enough and opted for Indian b'fast the next day. Since then, it is interesting cos everyday is a different menu! We have had so far: Thosai, Idli, Aloo Pratha so far. Let's see what's for tomorow.
Btw, I must make mention that at MacDonald's today, they are giving 2 free nuggets for every value meal and the hubby who is missing comfort food so much, ate my 1 nugget and there was only 1 for me! :(
This is it so far. We think there are nice chic restaurants around but we just need to know where! Hopefully, by the time we leave here, I can say again that I live to eat!
About Me
- Grace
- Hyderabad, India
- Moving into a new place where many have not been to before, me and the hubby truely did not know what to expect. As we find out for ourselves what kind of hole we have thrown ourselves into living in Hyderabad, here's a peek for all into this new world of ours.
2 comments:
I eric wee the hubby of grace who is intruding into this blog would like to add.... that the last few days in hyderabad are reminiscent of life during in camp training.
The cleanliness here is just never clean. on log scale of 0-10, where 0 is a rubbish dump and 10 is a hospital in singapore, i would rate my cleanliness as 5/10. for your info the appartments which we have been seeing are somewhere between 2-4/10.
i actually 'liked' an appartment which grace said "our parents would feel very sad for us if they saw us staying in this"...guess after seeing all the 3/10 appartments, today's 4/10 actually looked good.
another thing to add...we sat in this autocab, 3 wheeler which drove in the classic hyderabad way. crossing the road with full traffic coming head on, stopping vehicles in the way and then driving directly against the direction of traffic on the road. The traffic here is heavy and vehicles weave around each other instinctively. Unlike singapore, there is never a jam. it is just a mess.
MacDonalds! It's a great comfort food wherever we are! It's the world's local food. :)
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