Food

       So the food here is delicious! Shati (our cook) does an amazing job! We really didn’t realize how lucky we were to have her until we spent time in Dhaka and only had rice and watery dhal for every meal. For those of you who don’t know dhal is a bean type of plant. It looks similar to a lentil, but is yellow; the Bengali’s love to use turmeric so that is the main seasoning in it I think. Traditionally, dhal is very watery like we had in Dhaka, but Shati has learned that the Waids don’t enjoy that so her dhal is much thicker, it almost reminds me the Wat of Ethiopian food, a thick stew. We got back and told Shati we would like to not have rice and dhal for a couple meals. She is very sweet and accommodated us, even though she only serves it for breakfast typically. Instead of rice and dhal in the morning we got Sugi, which is like a cream-of-wheat but made with rice. It is delicious. For dinners we get a variety of food, much of it is American based because the Waids don’t particularly like Bengali food. Shati has made us a Bengali meal and it was very good, but I have found Shati doesn’t make much that that is not delicious, even with how picky I am. Yesterday she made a pumpkin pie with the leftover pumpkin she had from making a sweet pumpkin soup. It wasn’t quite as sweet as I like pumpkin pie, but it was still good. Something they have here that I really enjoy are Chapatis, they are similar to tortillas, but made out of rice I think. Shati has made us some chips out of them, they are good, although a few are soft, almost doughy, which is a bit strange, but still delicious!