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Although I'm not a tea lover, I can't help but share this with the local junkies tea-addicts :)

Masala tea is an Indian tea with milk, sugar, and spices

And what spices do you use, if it's not a secret? )

I was writing and writing, but it all got lost :( "Masala" translates to "spices," so they add everything they have on hand, I think. In reality, each family has its own recipe and its own set of spices. Our hostess, without much fuss, makes it from a store-bought mix "for masala-tea": small cardamom, large cardamom, green cardamom, cinnamon, ground black pepper, cloves, nutmeg, coriander, dill, anise, bay leaf. Plus, she separately adds cardamom, cinnamon, pepper, and star anise. And in the one they make and sell on the street, they also add ground ginger (at least, I could taste ginger in it).

Wow, what a rich selection! I probably won’t mix all of this together, but I need to try some of it in tea.
I mean, dill in tea would be too specific for me. But mixing several types of cardamom + cinnamon and coriander with pepper... I wonder what would happen.
P.S. And we have a crisis in our country. It’s just a bit specific: usually, during a crisis, everyone buys up all the buckwheat, while in the local supermarket... they’ve run out of all types of oolong! They’ve all been bought up. I’m sitting here, suffering without my favorite type of tea.

I made a mistake: I left my post here, and then got involved in politics. I should have done it the other way around... Like now.

My point is, dill in tea would be too specific for me.

I think if you drank that kind of tea for years, even generations, you'd end up adding dill to it :D Actually, I only learned about the dill, coriander, and bay leaf, as well as the three types of cardamom, when I read the ingredients on the package. Apparently, the amount of dill and bay leaf is negligible. But the coriander, cinnamon, cloves, star anise, and pepper are definitely noticeable.

And what about mixing several types of cardamom + cinnamon and coriander with pepper... I wonder what would happen.

I sometimes brew such a mixture with coffee. Tell me later how it goes with regular tea.

P.S. And we have a crisis in our country. It's just a bit specific: usually, during a crisis, everyone sweeps buckwheat off the shelves.

Now it's clear why there are no crises in India - they don't have buckwheat.

HA! WE, TRUE NORSEMEN AND NECROMANCERS, EAT VENISON AND SNACK ON BEAR MEAT! AND YOU, EAT YOUR PANDAREAN DELICACIES, AZAZAZAZAZA!!!!11

What other venison are you talking about? Here, 50-70% of the population are vegetarians. The only meat available at the market is chicken. :)
But they have this:

Locals call it shrimp. Well, let's call it shrimp.

Yes, I should try spiced tea. I once randomly added anise, and it was quite interesting.
Sesam, keep writing; I'm terribly envious, but it's very interesting to read about what people eat in other countries.
And I've completely let myself go on vacation, eating all sorts of unhealthy but delicious things. I'm so ashamed.

His Highness Mortulus deigned to have a slice of cake this morning. Applause!

Sesam, keep writing, I'm terribly envious, but it's very interesting to read what people eat in other countries.

Don't be envious :) Of course, it's great to see the world, but I would prefer to do it in less dramatic circumstances.
And in India and Nepal, they eat a lot of different things. For example, here is one of the main dishes

Usually, we have this for lunch.
It's called thali (in Nepal it's also called dal-bat and something else, in general, it's easier to find it in the menu by the picture)
The basis is a _large_ pile of rice, and they can add more if the person eating the rice wants it. ))
other components: pea soup (dal), flatbreads like lavash (roti, chapati), several different types of fresh vegetables sliced and stewed, pickles - something very salty and spicy in the form of a vegetable sauce or separate pieces of an unidentified vegetable (for those who don't have enough salt and pepper in the dish). In the case of a non-vegetarian thali, there is also meat curry, fish curry, or egg curry.
You eat all this with your hands, mixing all the components with rice. However, when people who clearly look like... well, Europeans, order it, the waiters ask if we need spoons :D
I should mention that we mostly eat in restaurants for locals, not in tourist places - it's cheaper and closer to the local specifics.

And I've completely let myself go on vacation, eating all sorts of unhealthy but delicious things, it's terrible.

and me! and me! In India, I ate all sorts of unhealthy but delicious things, and at the same time, my belt kept getting tighter and tighter - the climate is very hot. And in Nepal, there are not many sweets. There are no local ones. Or Indian or European. How can I live like this? :smile05:
For now, I'm continuing to eat Indian and pan-Asian sweets made locally.
For example, kulfi - an Asian analogue of ice cream
saffron. IMHO, it's the most delicious. The rest are too sweet for me.

I learned a new word in Nepali – म:म: (mo-mo).
It’s either dumplings or pelmeni with different fillings (beef, chicken, vegetable, cheese), which are steamed.
Just to avoid the wrong impression that everyone in Asia eats with their hands, I'll clarify – this dish is served with both a spoon and a fork.


We also ordered Russian salad.
It’s expensive; it costs as much as two portions of mo-mo.
I haven’t learned the name in Nepali yet. Photo from my phone:

They eat it with disposable skewers.
On the left, you can still see the favorite seasoning for Indians and Nepalese for vegetable and fruit salads and smoothies – black salt. It’s an awful beige-pink seasoning with the taste of rotten eggs. Usually, when I order a smoothie, I try to say that I don’t want any salt in it.

black salt. A disgusting spice with a beige-pink color and the taste of rotten eggs.

Something like licorice? ) That's the association I had.

Nope. As far as I remember, licorice doesn't smell like hydrogen sulfide.
By the way, Indian black salt is sold in Moscow. It is considered very healthy. So, if you want, you can try to find it and add it to your fruit salad :) But I didn't like it at all.

So, if you have the desire, you can try to find it and add it to the fruit salad.

After such praise? ) Nope, I don't feel like it.