A bite of Colombia, in INDIA

Thanks to a colombian friend that came to visit Mumbai last week, we had the blessing to get some very very very colombian bites ... check this out:

Subhi "drinking" PONY MALTA (she finds it a bit weird!) - one of the most traditional colombia drinks, it is basically made from teh sama de beer, but without alcohol and much sweeter. You drink this a lot when you're a kid, well ... and I guess in general. When I tasted it simply reminded my school, since that is the drink I used to bring in my lunch pack ("lonchera", as we cal it!).

Now, just check out this other beauty:

Yes, it's a pork face on the can ;-) This is canned LECHONA! Lechona is in its natural presentation is a full pork stuffed with rice, corn, peas and spices. Honestly speaking Lechona is not at all from the part of Colombia I am from, but after the year I lived in the capital Bogota (center of the country) I love it. And this canned one, was good. I ate pork after 2 1/2 months! It was very funny the comment that we made when we were warming up the lechona can ... "It smells like meat!" - even if I have been in India just 2 1/2 months, I certainly just got used to be just surrounded by veg food (or max. chicken/mutton) and the intensity of the smell beef or pork ones is something that you completely forget about, or better said, that you never were aware of. I won't say that it was difficult for me to "eat again" pork meat, that would be an exageration beacuse I certainly enjoyed it! but I could really notice how you in a way are not kind of used anymore to CHEW food, but just eating rather soft stuff as of course vegetables or white meat are.

There so many more things to miss, specially food from my own region (Barranquilla and caribbean coast!), but the learning for those who are thinking to come to India and are scared about really missing food, is that you certainly can survive without colombian food and with out meat. I guess honestly speaking, this is one of the less difficult stuff to adapt to ;-)