Maria Fancies Herself a Foodie

Well, I guess I should welcome myself back to the blog after a lot of laziness. I'll try to make up for a week of no posting with a hugely long post that has lots of pictures in it. Hope that makes up for my absence...

People normally go one way or another when they come see us. Love the food or hate it. Nothing Western at all or nothing at all but Western food (that is what they call it here "Western food" its nothing from Tumbleweed, though).
This is our awesome breakfast. Its a flat bread that is generously dosed in ghee and cooked on a griddle. Its served with curry and is a family favorite around here. The first thing we normally give people.

Of course, we ate some ice cream while they were here. This is a Pakistani guy selling ice cream from his motorcycle. There is a picture on the "freezer" and when he stops he points at various things and says, "Don't have. Don't have. Don't have." for most things. Then he asks, "What do you want?"
The polar opposite of the motorcycle ice cream guy is Starbucks.

Maria got introduced to the Chocolate Cream Chip Frappucino. Its Angie's favorite thing there (has neither coffee nor fruit).

We ate some pizza from a new local joint. Our review: Don't Quit Your Day Job!
A waffle with some ice cream at A & W. Maybe the only thing worse than plain rootbeer is the rootbeer float. Why do that to ice cream?!?
Everyone diving into Ann's favorite ... something called "coffee bread" in the generic but Ann pronounced the brand name like "Papa Roady" which is just far enough from accurate that no local person would ever understand her!
McDonald's! You'll just have to take my word for it.

Subway is a treat for us since we don't actually have one in our town. Bethany and Hudson can each power through a 6 inch sub, even if sometimes they leave some of the bread.

This is a place we found that has great juice. These huge watermelon juices cost $1.75 each. This juice is ordered by asking for "the big one" because if you ask for a large, they'll just ask if you want "the big one." Its like taking a bite of fruit. Its wonderful to live somewhere that has watermelon all year long.
Just for scale, here is the juice with Bethany's head.
McDonald's again. Though this time we didn't buy anything we were jut sitting inside this one in a mall. Squatters, if you will.
Some wonderful Chinese food. On this table you can see the fish curry that didn't stay in my mom's mouth for one whole second and the awesome chap chai mixed vegetables that feature squid.
The very brave Todd hammering down some squid. His review: Not A Huge Fan.

The best? Seems their very favorite thing was mangoes. Not much to disagree with there, the fruit around here is pretty awesome.