I pride myself on being a very adventurous eater. I often make the claim that I will eat just about anything, and I usually prove myself right. However, I have been much more timid as a result of strict warnings from the travel medicine nurse at Penn Medical who gave me my pre-trip vaccines. She told me not to eat any fruit that you can’t peel and to avoid vegetables. I think she said something about yogurt or eggs (or maybe it was yogurt and eggs), but since I can’t remember I’ve also been avoiding those.
However, when we stayed in the dorms with the students at the Asian University for Women, I tried to strike a balance between following the guidelines and being polite. I generally tried everything that they served, and really enjoyed most of it. My dad is a pretty well-travelled individual having been to over 70 countries (though, he has never been to Bangladesh so I am proud to say that I have traveled somewhere he has not) and he has all sorts of stories of the wild things he has eaten. He’s had goat eyes, warm sour yogurts, armadillos, you name it. I once asked if he ever got sick from eating such crazy things. He told me that he would eat whatever was put in front of him and then say a little prayer that he would not get sick. He did, however, get sick once in all his travels. He ate a Michael Jordan special at some deli in New York City and then thought he was going to die! With this in mind (the fact that the most dangerous food may actually be in NYC and not in Dhaka), I’ve tried to approach everything with a discerning open mind.
In general, I have REALLY enjoyed the food here! My favorite is daal. It is a spicy lentil stew usually served over rice or naan (a flat bread). However, leave it to me to travel all the way across the world to eat a hot dog!
My new dream is to have a travel channel show in which I travel all over the world taste-testing hotdogs everywhere I go! This one was pretty good. It was a pretty standard hotdog, but the bun was perfectly toasted and it had some interesting onion mayonaise sause.
However, when we stayed in the dorms with the students at the Asian University for Women, I tried to strike a balance between following the guidelines and being polite. I generally tried everything that they served, and really enjoyed most of it. My dad is a pretty well-travelled individual having been to over 70 countries (though, he has never been to Bangladesh so I am proud to say that I have traveled somewhere he has not) and he has all sorts of stories of the wild things he has eaten. He’s had goat eyes, warm sour yogurts, armadillos, you name it. I once asked if he ever got sick from eating such crazy things. He told me that he would eat whatever was put in front of him and then say a little prayer that he would not get sick. He did, however, get sick once in all his travels. He ate a Michael Jordan special at some deli in New York City and then thought he was going to die! With this in mind (the fact that the most dangerous food may actually be in NYC and not in Dhaka), I’ve tried to approach everything with a discerning open mind.
In general, I have REALLY enjoyed the food here! My favorite is daal. It is a spicy lentil stew usually served over rice or naan (a flat bread). However, leave it to me to travel all the way across the world to eat a hot dog!
My new dream is to have a travel channel show in which I travel all over the world taste-testing hotdogs everywhere I go! This one was pretty good. It was a pretty standard hotdog, but the bun was perfectly toasted and it had some interesting onion mayonaise sause.
PS: I realize that mayonnaise is spelled wrong.
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ReplyDeleteElectrical Engineer's nightmare? I never have nightmares about that! It's the ones that are buried and hidden that are a nightmare.
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