Indian food is famous and there are many Indian restaurants in the world. Lot of people enjoy the variety of Indian dishes they can eat in these restaurants, but the truth is that when western people travel to India, to eat is not easy. The food in India is actually much hotter/spicy than the one we know in our countries (see here) , it is served in a different way and they don´t use cutlery/silverware for eating it. They use their hands.
A menos que se vaya a un lugar destinado a los turistas extranjeros, el cual podríamos encontrar cerca de algún punto muy visitado por occidentales (aunque no siempre hay) o en el propio hotel donde nos alojamos, en los cuales se sirve comida occidental, como pastas por ejemplo, con el fin de facilitarnos la vida, en los establecimientos tradicionales los tenedores brillaran por su ausencia y solicitarlos puede ser un problema ya que por lo general no cuentan con ellos, te sacarán del apuro ofreciéndote una cuchara de la cocina. Ellos comen con las manos aún los alimentos con caldo (sí, soy testigo)
Unless you go to a restaurant for foreign tourists, which you could find near some tourist point visited a lot by foreigners (only in some places) or maybe you eat in the restaurant of the hotel where you spend the night, where Western food is served, as pasta for example, in order to make our life easier they give fork, spoon, etc, but, in traditional establishments the plate of food is served without any fork or spoon and to request any can be a problem for them because they usually do not have cutlery for the public, they will help you giving you a spoon from the kitchen tools. They eat with their hands even foods with broth (yes, I am a witness of this)
Un pequeño establecimiento cerca de alguna atracción turística donde sirvan una mezcla de arroz con pequeños trozos de pollo y refrescos/gaseosas para beber, donde la mayoría de los comensales son extranjeros y el menú esta en inglés tanto como en hindi, se vería así:
A small restaurant near a tourist attraction where we can get a mix of rice with small pieces of chicken and soft drinks for drinking, where most of the guests are foreigners and the menu is in English as well as in Hindi, would look like this:
A more traditional place where the menu usually consists of a single dish, very cheap, and we only can get for drinking water from the tap served in a steel jar (they don´t mind if you buy a bottle of water in another shop and drink here inside with your food) Probably no one will speaks English but is not necessary and the clients will be exclusively local people (when we eat in these small restaurants we cause some smiles and curious looks from the diners and passersby who have the joy of seeing us through the door :) it will look like this:
Muy importante: al comer con las manos sólo debe usarse la MANO DERECHA. Utilizar la mano izquierda para esto es de muy mala educación, lo mejor es dejarla reposando en la falda para no olvidarlo. Y siempre, aunque se utilicen cubiertos, debemos lavarnos las manos en la canilla o recipiente con agua que habrá a disposición en algún rincón, no hacerlo deja una mala imagen de nosotros.
Very important: if you eat with your hands you can only use your RIGHT HAND. To use your left hand for eating is very impolite, it is best to leave the left hand lying on your lap for not forgeting this. And always, although you can use cutlery for eating your food, you must wash your hands in the sink or water container that will be available somewhere at any corner, not to do this leave a bad image of us.
That's good description of the Indian restaurants and eating habits.....
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