One interesting observation I made while walking around in Bangalore is how common and easily available "Chinese" food is in typical Indian restaurants. In quotes because it actually meant Indianised Chinese dishes or Chinese food altered to suit the local taste. There will always be a section in the menu termed as "Chinese"; fried rice, chow mien (a.k.a. fried noodles) and "Manchurian" (probably it is a name for a sauce that taste like the Chinese sweet and sour sauce) dishes. For a while, I almost thought I wouldn't be missing food from home too much!

As I had mentioned before, authentic Chinese food is still available in downtown Bangalore; especially in the vicinity the Mahatma Gandhi (or MG) Road. A typical Sunday would be to go there via Autos or public buses (I will go into that later). Walk my legs silly while hunting around for good photographic opportunities. End the day in MG Road with a Kingfisher (a Lager brewed in India) and some Chinese food (it helps in reducing all those homesickness in me).

Maybe I dress too shabbily when I go out, or I pull a long face naturally. But if I don't pull out my camera or I keep my mouth shut, most locals cannot tell the difference between me and the people from Nepal, Assam or Manipur (i.e. northeast India, along the borders between India, China and Myanmar). Thus, when people realised that I am not local (i.e. not from South India), they will ask me which state (rather than which country) I am from! Perhaps just like the "Chinese" food in the local Indian restaurants, I am being Indianised as well.