You might be wondering what you have to eat, should you ever come to India. Well, inBangalore, you can get everything. There is, of course, the Indian food. North Indian and South Indian, but I don’t find a big difference between them. As far as I know, they use different spices, but I still think the food is very similar. Then, you get all the other Asian food, especially Chinese food is very often found in restaurants. And you can also get European and American food. However, I yet have to find a Schnitzel here :).
You can get food everywhere, starting at the stall or pushcart at the side of the road, where you can get your lunch for a few rupees, and going up to luscious 5-star hotel restaurants. Still, food is, by comparison to Germany, very cheap, even in the better restaurants. You can get a three-course (starters, main course, dessert) international meal, including non-alcoholic drinks, for less than 500 Rs at Sunny’s. Indian food is even cheaper, you usually wind up around 300 Rupees, maybe even less if you order by phone. But remeber: food will get much more expensive once you enter a club.
When you come here first, be careful: Indian food is usually very spicy. In most restaurants, you can ask the waiter to get it „less spicy“, and in many restaurants you are even asked if you want „less spicy“, „medium spicy“, or „spicy“. Be extra careful when something is marked as very spicy on the menue (usually by one or two chilis): They mean it! But you will get used to it soon. The contrast are the desserts: Indian desserts are called sweets for a reason: Their main ingredient seems to be sugar, closely followed by butter :). Don’t think about your diet while here, you’ll miss out on so much good stuff.
Oh, and a final warning: Indian restaurants like to serve their meat, especially mutton, with bones!
Most notably is one sweet, whose name I don’t know, which consists of some kind of bread (?) in sugar sauce. Sugar sauce to be taken literally. They produce it by putting sugar into water until it does not dissolve any more and then heat the water to be able to put even more sugar into it. This is then poured over the bread until the bread is soaked. This is then put into a cup, including the sauce, and served exactly this way.
The spicyness is not as much an issue as I had thought when coming here. There certainly is a lot of spicy food here, but also lots of non-spicy food. You shoudl just be *very* careful if you ask a waiter about the spicyness and they say that something is „medium spicy“..