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hey guys Sam here with another India travel video this time trying a South
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Indian Thali for the first time this was our final meal in Hyderabad before
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flying onwards to our next destination of what a way to say goodbye once again
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we had our two friends Silas and Rakesh showing us around and they were kind
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enough to teach us how to eat a South Indian Thali the proper way using our
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hands use your thumb ok the food into your mouth
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my technique is not so good but I have to say it was easier said than done and
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I'm probably going to need a lot more practice but that didn't stop me from
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enjoying the food now let's go enjoy that Thali set good afternoon good
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afternoon guys from Hyderabad India and we have a special episode for you today
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because we are gonna be trying South Indian thali and I've tried North Indian
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thali but never South Indian Thali so I have my good friend Sailesh and you can
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explain the difference between the two yes alright now we are in the hotel
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called Taj Mahal so this is almost a 63 year old hotel and the main difference
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between the North Indian thali in the south thali in North India
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people prefer bread and in South India we like rice so you find a lot of rice
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variety over here and all the curries in sambar and Russian which go well with
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rice wonderful so exciting and you're gonna teach us how to eat it
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authentically which is what way yes we are gonna eat it with our hands so
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unlike the North Indian Thali yeah we actually got our use our hands to eat it
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it sounds like a lot of fun yeah let's go do it
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okay guys we're now on the restaurant and I'm joining us my good friend Rakesh
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who's going to teach me how to eat a South Indian Thali so the South
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Indian Thali has a different kind of curries altogether from the North Indian parts
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okay North Indian Thalis have more of butter and on but South Indian Thali
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have a lot of ghee so this is the dahle lnd curry and this
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is a sneak guard this is the portalguard curry this is carried along with beans
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and this one is flavored rice this is the raita it's diluted curd with some
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veggies and this is yogurt and this is a sweet here we have small curries to
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accompany our dish rice is the most centric part in a South Indian thali
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along with some powders that we can mix along in the rice so one of the most
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exciting aspects about this meal for me is that I'm gonna get to use my hands to
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try eating the calories a real authentic way that you guys do it yeah so why do
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you guys use your hands and how can they do it so this form of eating field is
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way before there was any crockery and cutlery out there so the primary purpose
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of eating food with hand is to give you a whole sensory exploration of the food
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that you eat you can feel the food the texture you can also know how much
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amount of food you are having in your hand so you can smell the food you can
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see the food you can hear the food actually snapping through and also you
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can feel the food so we'll start with the Puri first okay with the Puri oh
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this is a flatbread fried in oil okay so you snap open the Puri
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okay you have three careers here with you yes you can choose whatever you like
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okay put the pudding inside put the put in sides pinch it pinch it
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grab some courier with it okay it looks somehow like this and then there you go
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you first bite good night sweet dreams crispy and all it's better you keep your
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size and the number of servings of food a less because you have a lot of place
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here we have so much rice yeah do I will try one more with this yeah definitely
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okay but some other curry maybe sure which one would be good I think we'll go
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with the carrot and the pains okay carried in the be included again
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and
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Wow this is usually dry it has no baby right but the old other 335i and this is
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a driest one yes that one was really good I had up you know nice spices and
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it really nice to get some vegetables them so should we try some rice now yeah
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so the next thing is we need to clean up our plate was okay so unclutter them by
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putting up dishes that you would end up eating in the last right so these are
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more the dessert ones so the desert and the cards go okay so I'm gonna put my
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Puri aside as well meet Jim I like it but it's time for us we take rice first
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interview some rice thank you several scoops I suppose so once we put the rice
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in okay we usually separate the amount of rice that we would like to have with
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the powder right now oh okay so just put it over to the side like this put it
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over on the side okay just take the amount of price that you would like to
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have with the powder is that this a lock about right yes okay so here we have two
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powders made out of lentils different spices crushed together in the pestle
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and mortar okay so you can choose whatever you would like
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I'll try this one first which is this one this this is a little Milo more okay
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no that's okay just like that now I go with this one okay
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now using your four fingers four fingers
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with your thumb okay you're gonna mix it first okay and you can also press the
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rice okay that the powder actually indulges with the rice all right
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so you actually use the flavoured with it I use the flavor so the more you mix
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it the better basically yes Oh wonderful you should find a uniform color all
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across the food I could tell that it's becoming like mine's yellow I can tell
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mine's becoming more yellow the more I mix it around with my fingers and thumbs
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after you mix it this is how it's gonna do okay and then you take a scoop of
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rice a scoop and mold it like this about this much yes
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okay little more maybe maybe a little more molded together move it together
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using all your fingers all the way fingers okay within this region
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okay the scoop and go for it and whenever you like all that's good so
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that is how you start your main course with yeah and when you're actually
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having a food with hands right use your thumb
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okay the food into your mouth also it's kind of like it just pushes it in like
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that it's like wow if you can see this action weird lashing the food into your
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mouth like this so that's how you need to run your practice my technique is not
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so good try another bite good for the first time though
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so you I remember you were mentioning off-camera that if you're eating it
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correctly it should only come about here within these spoons yeah
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if you have food all of your hand that's not properly repeating of something
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yummy then you're eating it like me the next thing is just a little more ice
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into your okay we are going for the doll okay with the doll doll is nothing but
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protein yup so you can directly go so you mix it mix it and all your
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fingers at me again fingers and thumb technique friends device press the rice
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so that it absorbs all the big grip okay oh that's looking good it's uh with this
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one it's a little bit soupy isn't it yes it is I probably probably put a little
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bit too much of it but it looks good though you'll put the roll
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take a spoon take this go okay you have to push your thumb inward to your goal
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so that the food gets in your mouth gets into the mouth if you like them I feel
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like the food tastes more delicious when you're using your hands exactly up the
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face to the pit yeah I like this Oh like this okay I see
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much easier oh my god by putting in the wrong gate with the Racal now I think I
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got it that's a little bit better oh it's so tasty so usually after the
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age of seven to eight a PRT I mean our parents teachers how to eat food by
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hands yeah so that is how we struggle to this pill
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so that's how you master and out of all the meals you eat in a typical day how
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many of them would you have with your hands all of them including the booty
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okay suddenly you spoons yeah you be usually
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your spoons to serve food that's all so we add a little more rice yeah it sounds
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great so there is a systematic way of eating a South Indian thoroughly so be
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there first started off by using the powder right and then we went on to the
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dal okay then we go for a curry right now curry we have three curry okay you
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can choose any one that you like that's a bodyguard train I'm not gonna
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make the same mistake twice I put too much last time mix it in and you know
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you know it's done mixing when it's an even consistency even color all even
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totally makes sense good to go I'm going to try again
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tastes so good with the curry Wow try again
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so the courage that we have for this meal are they very typical of what you
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have yourself a South Indian Telly yes the 4000 minute there are lot of
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vegetables that are not available in the best okay I saw something Lily in
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indigenized 4nf bread so just like the portalguard and the snake garden all
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yeah so these pearls are made of cocoa yeah
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and then not to forget we have play with rice here as well yeah so this is so
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this is moving out of tamarind paste okay and rice together oh wow
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so yeah we can take some serving of the spice okay you can find chilies oh I
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found a cashew as well - ooh and then Phoenix as well move the Chili's around
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yep you're gonna actually put them of it or put them away
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otherwise it's too spicy right yeah okay transport in words here I love the front
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of the car - let's write down a lot of flavor - delicious go into some more
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somebody found all of the pork oh it's absolutely delicious I love the variety
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it's great that it's a vegetarian meal - no it's my first time to try a lot of
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these different okay so we can do another one I suppose
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we have someone here let's do a Samba so once the Cuddy's over B go to the samba
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okay you take the song but pour it in just a little bit just a little bit this
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time I'm watching you partner is to smash the rice so that it soaks in all
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the liquid okay so you actually put pressure on it this time yes by the
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thumb while thumb okay so I'm actually smooshing as it's kind of hard as I can
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so if you see it smooth liquidy and brawny nature
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yeah it's all in the same state okay I like I'm having so much fun doing it you
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need to go get all the rice in between okay mix it evenly mix it evenly yes
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pull the rice in between and I have a very so much spam I'm still I'm still
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trying to remember the technique whenever I do it properly it goes a lot
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better so now that we've finished that we have a couple other options as well
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one of them that they brought to the table is actually North Indian because
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they weren't sure that we'd have enough of the blurry but we have this one over
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here so this is a popper puppet yep this is crispy and
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this week yep so you can snap it example I love I love the crunchies down so this
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is a basic condiment for your awesome or somewhere okay so after you mix in the
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rasa massamba yeah you can have a small bite have a
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bite and then carry on eating with the sambar awesome I have a bite of this
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curry and rice okay in the rice
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so this adds a little texture and crunch to the god statue at once and a little
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bit of saltiness still here you know what
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so for I think I'm doing okay look my hand is only only covered on the fingers
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I haven't got on my palms yeah good performance so just make sure that
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you're cleaning off your plate first no they're the rice from the previous
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serving right and once you are done with that we are going for the next one okay
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so we have the hibbe-dah wigger you know this is a confectionery savory toner
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okay so that is put up in a diluted top okay so this card is flavored with
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ginger ginger and coriander and a few more spices oh wow
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coriander lots of places look so you can see you have that paprika we're the
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Freaker yeah the red powder okay oh do I use this with the spoons you're right
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it's ready with the spoon okay cut it in half just make sure you have little
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liquid on it okay and then once you're done here you can never buy awesome
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oh I mean the word abortion really labor really absorbs them
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please didn't need and buy a liquid for a long time before I deserved it reminds
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me a bit of a sponge just soaked with everything up yeah
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so you take the dry curry okay put it in your side put a bit on the side here a
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little bit you take small serving of the rice mix it up mix it up and then
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we've been eating the meal for a bit and we trying something a little bit
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different we're putting the curd on the right at the end of the column you saw
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some rice and then add some yogurt to it mix it up and then take any curry as a
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condiment and then serve it along with your eyes okay and why is it done at the
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end of the meal so you know I mean you are having a lot of different curries we
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have different masala different spice levels you're trying to soothe and
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comfort your stomach by having occurred in the stoolie logic loss the atole
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makes it neutralizes the acidic influence in your stomach all right all
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right either
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that's good because it a bit of sourness yeah this solid Kirk you know this is
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amazing while southern Indian thali is so different from other Natale and we
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have to just jump into the foody Coody get after it guys get after it dip it
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into this one this one was the vegetable curry yeah
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vegetable curry yeah so you guys have been having it for a while do you have
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any particular favorite so far I think this one's my favorite
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yeah maybe the mango but it was a little spicy this is awesome amazing huh
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nothing like southern India nothing so we are moving on to dessert this is an
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exciting moment what do we have here we have a rice pudding rice pudding with
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cold pie isn't okay so it has a few dry dried fruits and what gives it the brown
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colors they use jaggery okay it's a source Raj dose of sugar okay so when
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you are jaggery becomes little brown in color okay so we are
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oh that's so sweet slick Pig oh I love this mmm my taste ah
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yeah damn you should remove the spoon and
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just drink it I'm gonna drink that that's so good that okay you got allowed
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absolutely delicious I love that dessert what a great sweet way to end things off
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that was an absolutely wonderful authentic South Indian thali thank you
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so much for explaining everything was my question
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it was an absolute amazing meal if you come here you definitely have to try it
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channels which I'll link in the description box below that's it for now
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we'll see you with more food and travel videos in India very soon bye bye
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that's a wrap from Hyderabad we hope you enjoy that delicious South Indian Thali
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set then the next episode will be hopping on a plane and traveling on
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words to our next destination and we start so join us for that adventure