Indian Thali for the first time this was our final meal in Hyderabad before

flying onwards to our next destination of what a way to say goodbye once again

we had our two friends Silas and Rakesh showing us around and they were kind

enough to teach us how to eat a South Indian Thali the proper way using our

hands use your thumb ok the food into your mouth

my technique is not so good but I have to say it was easier said than done and

I'm probably going to need a lot more practice but that didn't stop me from

enjoying the food now let's go enjoy that Thali set good afternoon good

afternoon guys from Hyderabad India and we have a special episode for you today

because we are gonna be trying South Indian thali and I've tried North Indian

thali but never South Indian Thali so I have my good friend Sailesh and you can

explain the difference between the two yes alright now we are in the hotel

called Taj Mahal so this is almost a 63 year old hotel and the main difference

between the North Indian thali in the south thali in North India

people prefer bread and in South India we like rice so you find a lot of rice

variety over here and all the curries in sambar and Russian which go well with

rice wonderful so exciting and you're gonna teach us how to eat it

authentically which is what way yes we are gonna eat it with our hands so

unlike the North Indian Thali yeah we actually got our use our hands to eat it

it sounds like a lot of fun yeah let's go do it

okay guys we're now on the restaurant and I'm joining us my good friend Rakesh

who's going to teach me how to eat a South Indian Thali so the South

Indian Thali has a different kind of curries altogether from the North Indian parts

okay North Indian Thalis have more of butter and on but South Indian Thali

have a lot of ghee so this is the dahle lnd curry and this

is a sneak guard this is the portalguard curry this is carried along with beans

and this one is flavored rice this is the raita it's diluted curd with some

veggies and this is yogurt and this is a sweet here we have small curries to

accompany our dish rice is the most centric part in a South Indian thali

along with some powders that we can mix along in the rice so one of the most

exciting aspects about this meal for me is that I'm gonna get to use my hands to

try eating the calories a real authentic way that you guys do it yeah so why do

you guys use your hands and how can they do it so this form of eating field is

way before there was any crockery and cutlery out there so the primary purpose

of eating food with hand is to give you a whole sensory exploration of the food

that you eat you can feel the food the texture you can also know how much

amount of food you are having in your hand so you can smell the food you can

see the food you can hear the food actually snapping through and also you

can feel the food so we'll start with the Puri first okay with the Puri oh

this is a flatbread fried in oil okay so you snap open the Puri

okay you have three careers here with you yes you can choose whatever you like

okay put the pudding inside put the put in sides pinch it pinch it

grab some courier with it okay it looks somehow like this and then there you go

you first bite good night sweet dreams crispy and all it's better you keep your

size and the number of servings of food a less because you have a lot of place

here we have so much rice yeah do I will try one more with this yeah definitely

okay but some other curry maybe sure which one would be good I think we'll go

with the carrot and the pains okay carried in the be included again

and

Wow this is usually dry it has no baby right but the old other 335i and this is

a driest one yes that one was really good I had up you know nice spices and

it really nice to get some vegetables them so should we try some rice now yeah

so the next thing is we need to clean up our plate was okay so unclutter them by

putting up dishes that you would end up eating in the last right so these are

more the dessert ones so the desert and the cards go okay so I'm gonna put my

Puri aside as well meet Jim I like it but it's time for us we take rice first

interview some rice thank you several scoops I suppose so once we put the rice

in okay we usually separate the amount of rice that we would like to have with

the powder right now oh okay so just put it over to the side like this put it

over on the side okay just take the amount of price that you would like to

have with the powder is that this a lock about right yes okay so here we have two

powders made out of lentils different spices crushed together in the pestle

and mortar okay so you can choose whatever you would like

I'll try this one first which is this one this this is a little Milo more okay

no that's okay just like that now I go with this one okay

now using your four fingers four fingers

with your thumb okay you're gonna mix it first okay and you can also press the

rice okay that the powder actually indulges with the rice all right

so you actually use the flavoured with it I use the flavor so the more you mix

it the better basically yes Oh wonderful you should find a uniform color all

across the food I could tell that it's becoming like mine's yellow I can tell

mine's becoming more yellow the more I mix it around with my fingers and thumbs

after you mix it this is how it's gonna do okay and then you take a scoop of

rice a scoop and mold it like this about this much yes

okay little more maybe maybe a little more molded together move it together

using all your fingers all the way fingers okay within this region

okay the scoop and go for it and whenever you like all that's good so

that is how you start your main course with yeah and when you're actually

having a food with hands right use your thumb

okay the food into your mouth also it's kind of like it just pushes it in like

that it's like wow if you can see this action weird lashing the food into your

mouth like this so that's how you need to run your practice my technique is not

so good try another bite good for the first time though

so you I remember you were mentioning off-camera that if you're eating it

correctly it should only come about here within these spoons yeah

if you have food all of your hand that's not properly repeating of something

yummy then you're eating it like me the next thing is just a little more ice

into your okay we are going for the doll okay with the doll doll is nothing but

protein yup so you can directly go so you mix it mix it and all your

fingers at me again fingers and thumb technique friends device press the rice

so that it absorbs all the big grip okay oh that's looking good it's uh with this

one it's a little bit soupy isn't it yes it is I probably probably put a little

bit too much of it but it looks good though you'll put the roll

take a spoon take this go okay you have to push your thumb inward to your goal

so that the food gets in your mouth gets into the mouth if you like them I feel

like the food tastes more delicious when you're using your hands exactly up the

face to the pit yeah I like this Oh like this okay I see

much easier oh my god by putting in the wrong gate with the Racal now I think I

got it that's a little bit better oh it's so tasty so usually after the

age of seven to eight a PRT I mean our parents teachers how to eat food by

hands yeah so that is how we struggle to this pill

so that's how you master and out of all the meals you eat in a typical day how

many of them would you have with your hands all of them including the booty

okay suddenly you spoons yeah you be usually

your spoons to serve food that's all so we add a little more rice yeah it sounds

great so there is a systematic way of eating a South Indian thoroughly so be

there first started off by using the powder right and then we went on to the

dal okay then we go for a curry right now curry we have three curry okay you

can choose any one that you like that's a bodyguard train I'm not gonna

make the same mistake twice I put too much last time mix it in and you know

you know it's done mixing when it's an even consistency even color all even

totally makes sense good to go I'm going to try again

tastes so good with the curry Wow try again

so the courage that we have for this meal are they very typical of what you

have yourself a South Indian Telly yes the 4000 minute there are lot of

vegetables that are not available in the best okay I saw something Lily in

indigenized 4nf bread so just like the portalguard and the snake garden all

yeah so these pearls are made of cocoa yeah

and then not to forget we have play with rice here as well yeah so this is so

this is moving out of tamarind paste okay and rice together oh wow

so yeah we can take some serving of the spice okay you can find chilies oh I

found a cashew as well - ooh and then Phoenix as well move the Chili's around

yep you're gonna actually put them of it or put them away

otherwise it's too spicy right yeah okay transport in words here I love the front

of the car - let's write down a lot of flavor - delicious go into some more

somebody found all of the pork oh it's absolutely delicious I love the variety

it's great that it's a vegetarian meal - no it's my first time to try a lot of

these different okay so we can do another one I suppose

we have someone here let's do a Samba so once the Cuddy's over B go to the samba

okay you take the song but pour it in just a little bit just a little bit this

time I'm watching you partner is to smash the rice so that it soaks in all

the liquid okay so you actually put pressure on it this time yes by the

thumb while thumb okay so I'm actually smooshing as it's kind of hard as I can

so if you see it smooth liquidy and brawny nature

yeah it's all in the same state okay I like I'm having so much fun doing it you

need to go get all the rice in between okay mix it evenly mix it evenly yes

pull the rice in between and I have a very so much spam I'm still I'm still

trying to remember the technique whenever I do it properly it goes a lot

better so now that we've finished that we have a couple other options as well

one of them that they brought to the table is actually North Indian because

they weren't sure that we'd have enough of the blurry but we have this one over

here so this is a popper puppet yep this is crispy and

this week yep so you can snap it example I love I love the crunchies down so this

is a basic condiment for your awesome or somewhere okay so after you mix in the

rasa massamba yeah you can have a small bite have a

bite and then carry on eating with the sambar awesome I have a bite of this

curry and rice okay in the rice

so this adds a little texture and crunch to the god statue at once and a little

bit of saltiness still here you know what

so for I think I'm doing okay look my hand is only only covered on the fingers

I haven't got on my palms yeah good performance so just make sure that

you're cleaning off your plate first no they're the rice from the previous

serving right and once you are done with that we are going for the next one okay

so we have the hibbe-dah wigger you know this is a confectionery savory toner

okay so that is put up in a diluted top okay so this card is flavored with

ginger ginger and coriander and a few more spices oh wow

coriander lots of places look so you can see you have that paprika we're the

Freaker yeah the red powder okay oh do I use this with the spoons you're right

it's ready with the spoon okay cut it in half just make sure you have little

liquid on it okay and then once you're done here you can never buy awesome

oh I mean the word abortion really labor really absorbs them

please didn't need and buy a liquid for a long time before I deserved it reminds

me a bit of a sponge just soaked with everything up yeah

so you take the dry curry okay put it in your side put a bit on the side here a

little bit you take small serving of the rice mix it up mix it up and then

we've been eating the meal for a bit and we trying something a little bit

different we're putting the curd on the right at the end of the column you saw

some rice and then add some yogurt to it mix it up and then take any curry as a

condiment and then serve it along with your eyes okay and why is it done at the

end of the meal so you know I mean you are having a lot of different curries we

have different masala different spice levels you're trying to soothe and

comfort your stomach by having occurred in the stoolie logic loss the atole

makes it neutralizes the acidic influence in your stomach all right all

right either

that's good because it a bit of sourness yeah this solid Kirk you know this is

amazing while southern Indian thali is so different from other Natale and we

have to just jump into the foody Coody get after it guys get after it dip it

into this one this one was the vegetable curry yeah

vegetable curry yeah so you guys have been having it for a while do you have

any particular favorite so far I think this one's my favorite

yeah maybe the mango but it was a little spicy this is awesome amazing huh

nothing like southern India nothing so we are moving on to dessert this is an

exciting moment what do we have here we have a rice pudding rice pudding with

cold pie isn't okay so it has a few dry dried fruits and what gives it the brown

colors they use jaggery okay it's a source Raj dose of sugar okay so when

you are jaggery becomes little brown in color okay so we are

oh that's so sweet slick Pig oh I love this mmm my taste ah

yeah damn you should remove the spoon and

just drink it I'm gonna drink that that's so good that okay you got allowed

absolutely delicious I love that dessert what a great sweet way to end things off

that was an absolutely wonderful authentic South Indian thali thank you

so much for explaining everything was my question

it was an absolute amazing meal if you come here you definitely have to try it