I've been told countless times not to go to India cause th food will make you sick. Although, I did get food poisoning for my first time while being here, people need to understand that it's not just "India" foreigners like myself aren't used to the different bacteria, viruses and climates that are native here. Which make our chances of getting sick significantly higher. Everything was amazing, the people here are great, and I cant wait to share more with you all ♥
Nah man it makes you sick cause you aren't used to it is all . After you adapt you're good to go , it usually takes about a week or so but after that I'd say you could eat anything Indian and be completely fine
Lol the white sauce with the dosa is a coconut chutney. It can get sour because if you blitz/blend a huge amount of coconut and keep it, the small amount of coconut milk present in the coconut can start to go sour. It's actually very normal and absolutely fine to consume.
I believe the third/soup that came with the dosa was sambar (lentil stew). My local South Indian spot in Nashville serves it with their dosas. Delicious.
Trust me, you are the most honest guy I've ever seen visiting India! As i am working for an American company (although i am in India) i definitely know how most of the guys feel about visiting india, and trust me. You are one of those who i respect because you know what you are saying and doing !
@@KFergy some other Kerala food recommendations, kappa, kerala style briyani, pazhampori, unniyappam, sadhya meals, kalamakaai, toddy etc also try kothu parotta if you can find any
As a person whose name is Avi, I endorse the first restaurant Aavi’s 😅… also having a dad whose name is Ashok, I endorse the second restaurant as well 😂😂
Gods own country ?before that it was devils own country swami vivakananda once told that Kerala is a mental asylum because nambuthari’s( Brahmins) behaviour
As an Indian, I feel so bad that most foods are spicy and oily, but trust me dude, it's quite opposite when people cook inside the house. Few times when we went to tour, we gathered cooking stove and all that stuff so we can avoid the food outside. If you could then try indoor food, they are awesome and much better❤
I don't really want to eat american Or australian food in any Indian restaurant. As the saying goes.... When in Rome do as the Romans do. When in India do as the Indians do.
I am an Indian woman living in America. Every time I eat out at an American restaurant, I get diarheaa. Pizza, burgers, sandwichestc etc... - all of these upset my stomach.It is not that the food is not hygenic, its just that my stomach is not used to the American type food. When I eat Indian restaurant food here in the U.S. I do not get diarheaa, but when I go to India and eat Indian food there, I still get diarheaa for several days. Even though I was born and raised in India, my body has become used to the ingredients, the water and oil used in America to cook Indian food. It is not until my body gets acclimated to the food in India after several days, can I eat food there without upsetting my stomach. Even with a familiar dish, the water is different, the oil is different, the ingredients grown in a different place, all these factors come into play- so please don't generalise that all food in India is bad.
PSA To everyone that wants to try food in India: You're very likely to fall sick owing to the difference in microbiome. Please try to avoid eating it on your first few days here especially liquids. If you find yourself with no options (for the first few days ie.,) : Try to Eat food with lots of dietary fibres, Cereals can help. Have a great stay! Good health to you!
brah, you actually tried kerala food.. but theres still many things to try there. Like the chicken curries. Also Appam goes with the veg stew, but you can also have it with meat curries... It also goes with chicken stew for the non-veg eaters, also it goes with chicken curry.
@@KFergy k, so try: beef fry/roast and parotta, Thattakada chicken, nadan chicken curry, chicken 65. Kanthari shrimp, chili beef and parotta (its long strips of chili, capsicum, large onions), kalappam and duck curry, squid fry and rice, potichoru, puri and potato curry (breakfast food), el sadhya (do it while doing houseboating), vegetarian meal at mothers veg restaurant, lamb fry and parotta, Thalasseri biryani, Kerala Fish Curry and rice spicy, its dark red in color and sour in taste), oyster fry, fish cutlets, kutu parotta, chicken peralan, the many chicken curry, pork curry, fish/shrip/meat pickle (super spicy, if done right, its the best dish ever), Keralan Lamb Curry, Mutton Varutharacha Curry, palappam (like the one in this video) and chicken curry (the veg is mild meant for noob outside folk's, but it goes better with the chicken curries), Erissery , Nadan Kozhi Varuthathu, fish fry, But yah, you did pretty well considering your not even from there.. Like you tried what most foreigners would not have. Excellent work my friend. Check out jatayu and kovalum beach and varakala.
@@KFergy ha yah, the honking... that drives me nuts, but after a while... you get used to it, also the crazy traffic, trying to get to the other side of the road can be quite the challenge... In the west, the horn is used seldom... in India... its like a navigational essential (hopefully it will not be a thing... cause its just pure annoyance).
@KFergy also visit thalassery city and kozhiode(calicut ) town Food hotspots Try falooda from both And biryani And other ice-cream from thalassery It's my city so that's why I want you to visit it
thank you So much for visiting our country and trying our food I recommend you to try North Indian food it is way to delicious you will find a lot of vegetarian options in North India
Every kind of meat is normal in India bc 60% of the population eats different kinds of meat . And In North East side starting from West Bengal and in south including Goa you can get beef, pork etc .. all you have to know that the place, where you can find it. Even when we Indians goes in different states sometimes we gets food poisoning or lose motion 😅, India is so diverse that we don't even know sometimes. Wait 😭 RU-vid is not recommending your channel. It's sad😢.
No worries it will one day 😂 And I agree India is massive and probably the most diverse country I’ve ever been too! It’s crazy all the different foods and dialects within India 🇮🇳
Thousands of foods & flavors tbh if you roam whole India,food & language both changes in very city,the best vegetarian cousin found here,If you like non veg try Hyderabad chicken biryani,if you want to enjoy sweet & desserts then go to Kolkata,if you wanna enjoy street food go to Delhi,Authentic south Indian food is also great & healthy.
God I was getting nervous of the fish bones watching him take that big scooped bite of Karmeen. I visited Kerala last year I had karmeen it was super tasty but bones are very tricky for people who are not use to eating fish. I also tried beef for the first time I totally understand by Beef and Parotta is called one of the emotions of Kerala.
I was kinda nervous too! Im not used to eating whole fish like this, so it was definitely tricky. It awesome that you tried beef for your first time here too!!
Which hindu tf eats beef bro and you being a hindu eating beef is a shame ...and beef is sold in kerala???? It's illegal in india . You know we consider cow as our mother. Shame on you bro
To really enjoy Indian food, watch how Indians eat each item. For example, the Puttu and kadala (chickpeas curry) has to be mashed together, and then eaten.
@@supersaiyangoku7547 In some states cow slaughter is fully banned. But most states allow slaughter of older bulls (male cows). Some states disallow consumption of beef. Some states disallow slaughter but not necessarily consumption.
I think the way to start is to try Tasty Bites shelf stable meal pouches. Most grocery stores have them, they are vegetarian (some are vegan) and include lots of India staples like chic peas (garbanzo beans), lentils, paneer cheese cubes, spinach, cashews and tomato based sauces. You usually serve them over white rice you make yourself, but you could serve them over pasta/noodles, or even serve as a side with chicken, beef, etc. Most are not really spicy, although they sometimes have spiced like coriander that Americans aren’t used to.
I didn’t get sick last year in Southern India. But I only ate home cooking or restaurant cooking. Only once I ate street food because my friends wouldn’t let me. But when I go back I’m experimenting more.
It is not food poisoning. It is your gut bacteria not being used to digesting Indian food. This happens to Indians as well when we travel abroad to any Western country. The gut takes 3-4 weeks to get adjusted to a new diet. This is how human biology works.
@@KFergy Well traditionally, before soap was invented, Indians practiced a strict separation of hands to avoid spreading germs.. so the right hand was preserved for eating and handing & recieving things while the left hand was for handling any germy stuff. But after the invention of soap, both hands are disinfected on washing with soap before eating so it doesn’t really matter but the tradition carries on just as etiquette. Like how people still use spoons & cutlery which were invented for the same reason, coz it was impossible to wash your hands in freezing climes back then.
With dosa they give you some side dishes like white coconut chutney, sambar that's dark brown colour, and onion chutney that's reddish brown colour. You take some dosa pieces and dip it into sambar and chutney and eat it. There's also the masala dosa with some potato stuffing inside. Hope you liked the indian food.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍.
I believe it was beef, definitely not mutton! But I did hear a rumors from someone in Kerala the other day say sometimes if it’s not beef it can be buffalo. 😂
Idli &dosa, chicken biryani (pulao) in Tamil Nadu state, Meals & Biryani In Andhrapradesh & Telangana state.. curries in Rayalaseema.. Parota in Kerala..were the best 👏..
Hey, here is a tip that I follow eating such long dosas. Always fold the ends the moment the waiter arrives. You can see it touching the table when you keep on it. I avoid that due to hygenie purpose
About the dosa, when people make it at home it is usually smaller like you were expecting, but most restaurants I have seen make these big ones because they have larger grills.
I will give you a tip.... Whenever you fill like it's over spicy ..and need simple food....go for... Idli .Dosa like South Indian food.....you can literally have Idli and Dosa without any curry and relax your stomach...South Indian foods are easy to digest especially Idli Dosa..you can find them each and every corner of the country...
Pro tip on Indian food-: Eat where there is a heavy crowd. That ensures you won't get food poisoning. Because these joints are tried and tested by the locals.
@@KFergyEvery restaurant (and household) has their own variation of the recipe so it will taste different and vary in consistency place to place. Same thing with Sambhar.
If you again had to face food poisoning problem just have a idiyappam and idli for a day that'll keep you good and prepare you for the next days experience
You should try payasam which is a kerala dessert which is served hot it can be made in different varieties but the most favourite one for everyone is the pal payasam. Pal means milk in Malayalam so u can say it's a milk payasam it's really good
I’ve been travelling to india every year for 10 years and never had Delhi belly. I take a probiotic every morning and colostrum morning and night. They other thing is to never eat off the street carts in india and only eat at very busy Restaurant where the turnover is high and the oil is clean. You can ask to see the kitchen and oil there. The other suggestions is to travel with an experienced Indian driver who knows where to eat and what to look for to keep you safe. Shakir sheikh picks me up at Delhi airport and stays and supervises me the whole month I’m in india each year been all over india North, South, East, West and golden triangle 🙏 if he’s busy on tour he knows lots of other reliable drivers to go with in good clean cars and they know the accommodation contacts to get the best prices, currency exchange rates etc. knowledge is the key to survival in India ❤
The reason foreigners are victims of food poisoning is they have had the cleanest and A grade food throughout from the place they come, however Indian foods always have some amount of dirt, chemical, and all possible impurities, we have had this impurities in very small amount everyday since we started eating solid food when we were babies and our body is immune, No matter you shell out good money it's still difficult to find good quality food or raw materials in India.
