New Culture Passion

After my passion for Germany football and Cantonese, my latest random habit is Indian culture! Well...more precisely Indian food :P

It all started from the night I took him to see the dark comedy called The Lesson written by his favourite absurdist play writer - Eugene Ionesco. Before the play, he took me to this southern Indian restaurant and I instantly fell in love with the food there!!!

Forget those boring butter chicken curries, southern Indian food are the best! I had Dahi Puri, which were crispy shells with potato and creamy yoghurt. They were as cool as what the menu said it is - A must try!! Then I stole some of his Rava Dosa and had my Utthapam, which was described as Indian Pizza, but it's nothing like a pizza except it was round :P Both were some sort of onion, tomato and cheese mixed pancake with potato onion curry... It tasted so goooooood especially with hands :) Oh...I also tried Mango Lassi which was mango with yoghurt. Mmmmmm.....So Yummmmmm......

Then, today, we went to see the India film Water. I just love culture diversity because it always gives me different perspectives to see things. That's why I am such a film festival freak! This film we watched was very depressing. It is about India widows (such as the main character, Chuyia who was only 8 years old), who must be forcibly separated from their families and sent to an ashram in 1930s. They had to shave their hairs off and can only wear white sari for the rest of their lives without any jewelry. In short, all they were doing was waiting to die. It's visually appearing, culturally enriching and emotionally touching.

One of the quote I really like from this film is

Narayana: All the old traditions are dying out.

Kalyani: But what is good should not die out.

Narayana: And who will decide what is good and what is not?

Kalyani: You!