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Kuwait (Arabic Restaurant for Breakfast)
- Long tables, community style, sit where you like. Do NOT sit at a table with Kuwait women unless you are family! This is disrespectful and rude in their culture and will probably get you escorted out.
- Small plates with one item on them (no piling food on like Americans would). Waiters were more than happy to come make their own personal favorites for you.
Kuwait (Dinner)
- Not until 10:00 pm does a restaurant get packed. Nice for an American keeping a low profile. I am able to eat without a crowded restaurant and enjoy people-watching after I am full instead of having to wait for my food. Dinner is a very social activity.
India - Himilayas (Breakfast)
- Chai, best Chai ever! Even the taxi driver taking me to a town 40 kms away stopped at a random roadside home to have some chai with the family there (If I were in a hurry I would have been angry, and I know he did it just to bring some money into that family's home, but it was great Chai)!
- In the smaller towns I was often invited in for Chai and homemade bread (great bread) and when I offered to pay some families would accept others would refuse and I would still slip a few rupees under my plate (they may have found it rude, but they were living in a sheet metal shanty!).
India - Himilayas (Curry)
- Dinner and lunch were best enjoyed with groups of people (ordering a single dish for one person just feels awkward). Instead, with a group of people, order a bowl or two of rice, and a variety of curries and some dhal (flat bread), and everyone digs in.
Uruguay - (Dinner)
- Asado, meat, meat and more meat. Oh, and bread, and cheese. It is no wonder most of my relatives have nice round bellies. Best BBQ ever!
Uruguay - (Mate)
- Thermos of hot water, check, mate leaves, check, gourd, check; cheese and crackers optional. Anytime is an appropriate time to sit down and enjoy mate with whomever. When you wake up, mid morning, mid afternoon, whenever.
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