Lately i have realized that i am addicted to tea! YES ! I am a tea person! I am deeply, madly, truly in love with tea! I have no hatred for other beverages, but given a chance, I am even ready to give up a can of beer for a cup of garma garam adrak wali chai! :D
My day starts with a huge mug full of extra milky tea with a tinge of Cinnamon and ginger; and it ends with the same. Hell don't even ask how many cups of tea i drink per day when I am working on a really stressed out project! :D
So you get the point how much I love tea? Good!
Now what i have discovered during the past few weeks, that the restaurants of this country are possibly conspiring against me!!! :O :O They are trying to serve me fucked up versions of things i love the most!! Last week I ordered "Parantha" in a pseudo Indian kind of restaurant, and they served me a dried and over-baked papad kind of a thing! And now this happened yesterday ! :(
Yesterday evening, I was having a slight headache, partially because of the cold (Its march and it hasn't stopped snowing!! ) and partially because i was glued to my monitor, whole day, working on a very high-priority ultra-top-secret project since 8.30 in the morning!
As they say, nothing cures a headache better than a strong adrak wali chai! So I entered a roadside cafe and ordered a "ceai", yeah thats how they spell chai here, pronunciation being the same. I asked the waitress to add a bit of extra milk, as i like my tea to be a bit extra milky.
In a very strange and satirical tone she asked me "You want MILK! with the tea?" I was already in a grumpy mood and snapped back "Yes! Do you mind?" Two minutes later i realized my mistake! :(
Apparently, the thing we call chai in India is not same as the chai we get here. In this part of the world, chai comes in the exact same tea bags, but instead of the usual black tea, those bags have dried fruits and fruit extracts!! So what she served me was hot red strawberry flavored water, with milk added to it! Needless to say, the citric acid in strawberry reacted with the milk, and what i had was hot red strawberry flavored water with fucking paneer floating on the top!! GRRRR
Like you have to order "plain water" to get the normal water, you got to say "black tea" to get the normal tea! Huh! The chick even refused to give my money back!! :(
Double nuksaan! :(
And yeah, they did not have black tea in there! Fir saala kappu-cheeno se hi kam chalana pada! :(
5 comments:
Poor you
I sooooooooooooooooooo understand your pain. Even I like my tea a bit extra milky, boiled nicely, and adrak ho to jannat naseeb ho jaata hai! Talking about all this makes me feel like having a cup now. Waise, Hyd ki Irani chai try ki hai? Its simply amazing! To die for. Chote chote cups main jo dete hain, with some buns. Soch ke abhi hyd bhaag jaane ka man kar raha hai!
Aur serli the way good ol tea is blasphemised here! Chai ki pattiyon ki atma s ko kitni takleef hoti hogi. Imagine, they gave up their life in some lush green valley to be mocked at in these stupid tea bags. :( Anyways, you have to endure it.Get a thermos if possible and make a biiiiiiiig saucepan in the morn and stuff it. That might work.
I feel very strongly about this topic. See such a long comment :)
When i was in France, I used to make Indian chai to my frnds out there... even now they long for it!!! They used to call it golden-majestic-Indian-Chai!
lol.....
bhai yeh kais duvidha hai chai ki tere jeevan mein :D
Awwwwwwww :(
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