As most of you may know that cows in India are sacred. They keep them walking in streets very normally with the people and cars. It's very normal to walk and beside by like 1 feet is a cow walking with you. Of course you can't bother it or harm it in anyway. They usually eat from the garbage from the streets or basically anything they find eatable.
The point of all this is that if you want to buy beef you won't find it!! In a normal restaurant you'll find a Veg menu and Non-Veg. The Non-Veg is either eggs, chicken, fish, or mutton (lamp meat). NO BEEF!! Coming from a country that is very normal to eat beef almost daily was quite hard at the beginning accepting this harsh reality!
We were invited to a girls birthday in a restaurant called RedBox while I still was in Mumbai. I went with another Egyptian guy and a Moroccan and 3 guys from Brazil. All beef eating countries. So I was going through the menu normally looking for something to eat expecting at least a new way to make chicken till I heard one of the guys saying "They have beef!!". We were all like "WHAT?!". That came after being 3 weeks in India eating chicken. It was like a shock for all of us. We all had the same page of the menu choosing beef dishes!! They even had a couple of Lebanese dishes :D It was an amazing night for us all.
Coming to Bangalore I expected the same. All restaurants were the same style. Till a Brazilian colleague of ours invited us to a restaurant that serves beef in Bangalore. When I heard the invitation I was like "REALLY?!". The restaurant is called "The Only Place". I'm sure you might figure out by now from where they came out with the name! They have some amaaaazing steaks there!! I've been there 3 times so far. Every time I tried something new and I wasn't disappointed. When I start eating I feel like out of India for a while.
It is really ironic that going out to eat beef is by itself an event here. It's something we wait for from time to time!! Like we can say in Arabic "Ana raye7 2akol la7ma ya ged3aaaaaaan!!!". I might go next week and I'm going to try a new type of steak!! La7maaaaaaaa!!! :D
Stay tuned for my journey last weekend!!
Till next time ;)
2 comments:
oh my godddddddd... no no no ..
this is impossible ,, well i wonder now where they got kelmet " howa enta ma7room " ...
well i would like to see this stick really ??? like Egyptian or different ??? hehehehehe ...
the beef event ..
me3o and the beef event in India ....
hahahaa
i wish really u r enjoying it there ya me3oo .. ita great reading ur blog .
Looool, and I thought finding good food in Germany was a challenge, at least we could run off to Mac or Burger King when needed. Thank God you found this restaurant, we Egyptians can't live without beef (la7ma), you should try to convince them sometime "yetbo7'o hobar la7ma".
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