Nagaland Trip (Mawlynnong-The most cleanest village in Asia?)<br>インド北東ナガランドの旅(マウリンノング‐アジアで一番きれいな村?)

Nagaland Trip (Mawlynnong-The most cleanest village in Asia?)
インド北東ナガランドの旅(マウリンノング‐アジアで一番きれいな村?)

When we decided to go the Hornbill festival in Nagaland, we also made a plan to visit Cherrapunji in Megahalaya. Cherrapunji is well known for the wettest place in India and also for some beautiful living root bridges and waterfalls. When we were making a…

Have a look at the Naga Kitchen

Naga cuisine, of the Naga people, features meats and fish, which are often smoked, dried or fermented . The various Naga tribes have their own cooking varieties, but they often interchange recipes. A typical Naga table consists of a meat dish, a boiled vegetable dish…

Nagalnd Trip (Guwahati Part 3)
インド北東ナガランドの旅(ゴワティ パート3)

As we enjoyed both breakfast (plus some deserts!)and lunch so much, we could only see a bit of the famous Kamakhya temple before we leave Guwahati. The proverb “Bread is better than the songs of bird” is definitely for us:-) (Well, I love songs of…

Nagaland Trip (Guwahati Part 2)
インド北東ナガランドの旅(ゴワティ パート2)

There were many chai shops and chaat shops on the street in Guwahati. Cycle rickshaws were busy working from early morning…. 日本語文は英語文の後にあります。どうぞ読んでくださいね。

Nagaland Trip – Guwahati (Part 1), our first stop-
インド北東、ナガランドの旅 (ゴワティ パート1)

Me and Sunil went to the famous Hornbill festival in Nagaland, which is the north east part of India. We took a flight from Hyderabad to Guwahati in Assam. Guwahati is our first stop on the way to Nagaland. In our short stay in Guwahati,…

Raju the Watchman and his family Part I
番人のラジュとその家族パートI 

Our watchman Raju and his wife Tanya are a very sweet young couple. They are from Orissa. Raju speaks Hindi and Tanya speaks Hindi and Good English. They were expecting a baby when I arrived in Hyderabad so we took some family photos for their…

Chana masala & vegs lunch box
ひよこ豆と野菜弁当

As we normally have big lunch at home, I try to pack non carbohydrates dinner box for Sunil. But I won’t know if he eats something extra at work or not. 🙂 お昼にいつもかなり食べるので、夕飯はタンパク質をできるだけとらないお弁当にしてあげる。でも、ス二ルが仕事場で、ついつい何か買って食べてしまっているのかどうかは、私に分る術はないのであった。(笑

University Potatoes
大学芋

I love our local street market! I found sweet potatoes there the other day. Indian sweet potatoes are similar to Japanese ones unlike English ones. English sweet potatoes are very different from Japanese ones so I couldn’t make one of the traditional Japanese snack, “Daigaku…

Keralan style Pumpkin curry
ケララスタイルの南瓜カレー

I found a yellow pumpkin in our local street market. It reminded of me the delicious pumpkin curry which I learned from Sunil’s friend Prakash in Coorg last October. So I bought a pumpkin and went home. 日本語文は英語文の後にあります。どうぞ読んでくださいね。

My second Snake Gourd recipe
蛇瓢箪レシピパートII

We got lots of snake gourds in the market the other day. When I heard the name first time, I thought that people said “Snake God” and I really liked it. So I somehow disappointed it when I found out that it is actually called…