Monday, December 31, 2007

Vegetarian non-vegetarian meals

The title sounds confusing, doesn't it.

In year 2000 during my maiden trip to Nepal I was having dinner at a rooftop restaurant at the Thamel area, just a few shops away from KGH. As in all eateries in Kathmandu, one will have to wait a fair bit before the first dish sits on your table. When the soup arrived I was slurping on it and at the same time telling my mate how good it was. When I was almost half way thru the soup, I suddenly realised that I had so much to chew on a bowl of vegetarian soup. I spat out something and immediately got the waiter's attention. We checked with him if the soup is vegetarian soup. "Yes, Maam, it's vegetarian". Then I asked him what is this piece of chicken doing in my vegetarian soup. He left us very quickly and returned just as quickly announcing that the cook have made a mistake. "Today's soup is chicken soup, Maam".

On 8 December 2007 I ordered some take-away vegetarian momos in India. I was going to the airport at 5.30pm for my homeward bound flight. After checking in and going through immigration we settled down for some finger food. Wow! the momos tasted fantastic. First piece went in, followed by the second piece. No, I should not have so much to chew on. Yes, you have guessed it right. The delicious momos were chicken momos. ): See the grin hehehe

And of course I was third time lucky. This time was at MPH Cafe at 1 Utama. I ordered an Egg Mayo sandwich. Maybe I have some great affinity with chicken. It turned out to be Chicken Mayo sandwich but this time I discovered it with the second bite (the first bite was only the side of the bread without any fillings).

So far I have had 3 vegetarian non-vegetarian meals. I must admit it did not taste offensive. On the contrary it tasted pretty ......goooood. So much for being a vegetarian

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