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Indian tourists are surprised as well as delighted by having such a huge variety of delicious food and those food items also have very little similarities to the food items available outside India. Also this country has an unstoppable list of tasty snacks with varieties of sweets added.
One has to take care of only one main thing while travelling across India is drinking water as sometime it may cause the biggest hazards to the tourists. All over the country mainly tea and coffee are available and safe. Also you are relaxed by knowing that a large range of soft drinks bottled in India as well as of International brands are available and you can have them without a worry.
India has verity of the tropical and semi tropical delicious fruits and some of these are seasonally available only. Indian eating is safe as well as quite cheaper as compare to the outside India food. This country has an extremely rich and varied culture.
As the style of cooking varies from each state as different cooking medium used and the regional flavours added to them. Groundnut oil is the commonly used in Maharashtra and Gujarat states and mustard oil along with eastcoast used in West Bengal and Bihar as well as Jammu and Kashmir mainly. Sesame oil is comamon in use in the south and coconut oil in the south as well as west specifically in Kerala.
The thali is dish named after a traditionally served plate, with the bowl-shaped indentations called katories. Thsi is the wonderful way to explore the specific regional variations in it and have dry and wet vegetables in it. In this way one can seperate out the choices as veg or non-veg easily by having seperate types of thalis for each.
But it is true that Indian meal is incomplete without pickles, chutneys or other relishes. Meals are polished off with 'Paan', spicy, sweet and fragrant mixture of betel nut. It has two types in it called mitha, a sweet paan and saadha paan.
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West Indian Cuisine, East Indian Cuisine, North Indian Cuisine
Rice and Bread, Dal, Pickles and Chutneys, Milk and milk products
Alcohol, Fruits and Vegetables, Fish and Meat
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