Food, food and more food

I have quite a treat for you all today. The team that is doing some work for me here invited me to share their lunch with them. I've been told that Indians learn from a very young age at school to share most things, and at least when it comes to food I have found this to be true for sure.  I'm attaching a short video and snapshot of my lunch, which included paratha, and then various combinations of veggies and spices. The new thing for me was trying curd.  Not sure I'd choose it on my own but it wasn't as bad as I expected it to be :-)

And here's my plate.....

Then, not too long after that another co-worker stopped by to see what I was doing for lunch. After I told him I'd already eaten he said he was going out to the street vendor on the corner to get noodles. Well, I decided that I had to go with him to get a video of the vendor and the noodle (and paratha) making process. Turns out the noodles are just Ramen noodles (the brand is "Maggi" for those who know it) with an Indian spice packet. Then they throw in veggies or egg or both depending on what you order. I'll include a pic of the final product. Bon Appetit!

The video below is the guys cooking the parathas.  To his right is the guy boiling the ramen noodles and the stir-frying veggies for it with spices in a wok.  Unfortunately,  I didn't get a good shot of the noodle guy...

And here's the noodles that were end result of what we bought at the vendor...

Tomorrow I head to Agra, town of the Taj Mahal.  I'll visit the Taj early Saturday morning (I've heard it preferable since you have to take your shoes off and the marble gets quite hot as the day goes on) so hope to have a good update for you after that!