My Indian culinary adventure begins. Eating was one of the things I was most nervous about ahead of my trip because I’ve never been a fan of Indian food. But I was willing to give it the old college try. And anyway, I had enjoyed some Indian food in Singapore. 
The adventure began with my hotel’s breakfast buffet. It was an extremely inauspicious start. I would have failed out of the Cornell Hotel School if I had presented the buffet the way the hotel did. Dirty dishes. Some food just sitting right on the table instead of in a serving tray or platter. This was certainly not a venue where I wanted to be adventurous. So I stuck to familiar items. I selected cold toast, a cold crepe, cold couscous, and fried puff bread (the sole exotic item I picked). Let’s move on, shall we?
Dinner was a big improvement. I had dinner at a casual counter-service place in Khan Market.
Looking at the menu, it was pretty clear what I was going to order. “Chicken spicy tikka kebab”. Tikka is just pieces of meat. It’s hard to get this wrong, and it tasted just fine. A quite satisfactory 1st dinner in India. But that’s not all. For dessert, I had kulfi. Kulfi is Indian ice cream. It comes on a stick and has the consistency of a fudgicle. Need I say more?
Crappy hotel breakfast buffet aside, I proclaim my 1st day of dining in India a success!
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