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Back in the day, chow mein was as far as most households ventured. And besides a few indo-chinese staples in restaurants (with no unusual ingredients like tofu), there was no foreign food around. Iirc I don't think I ate pizza or pasta before getting to the US in 1997.
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Might look for those break-off-and-bake cookies. Doubt I'll find it though. Much as I like the Indian-style biscuits with chai, It'd be fun to try to bake a soft fresh-baked chocolate chip cookie. Not gonna try from scratch though.
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Damn. An entire pasta section. The Chinese noodle section is still all Hakka chow mein though. Hasn’t expanded except in number of brands.
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One thing that's still not mainstream I think is protein powder. I meant to bring some but forgot. I'm sure you can get it online or specialty stores, but the closest thing I found in local grocery story is this diabetes control protein mix that's more of a full meal replacement.
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Parents' flat complex has a sad little gym with limited weight equipment (non-standard light barbell, and weights that get up to maybe 90lbs at most) so I am kinda letting it go. And I'm pre-diabetic anyway, so might as well cop to it and drink the diabetes drink.
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South india in particular is extreme carb country. Everybody is noticing and commenting this trip how little white rice I'm eating :D Back in college in the 90s, I knew of a guy in Bangalore who got his protein from like 20 idlis. Idlis are like 15% protein at best.
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In the north, trad pehelwani wrestlers (who've been winning olympic medals lately) basically do the gallon-of-milk-a-day approach, supplemented with nuts. But basically, in the tropics, a high protein diet is basically unpleasant to maintain. It's just too heavy.
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High-carb/low protein didn't matter in the past when everybody had high-cardio lifestyles, even if they didn't literally work in the fields. Now the Indian diet (both north and south) is a recipe for a diabetes/CVD pandemic in which I'm on the cusp of becoming a data point.
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I'd guess my family here, who eat the trad south indian diet 90% of the time (and with white rice >>> roti) probably gets <15g protein/day, most of it from milk (~1 cup in coffee) and yogurt (maybe 1 cup of thin yogurt, not the strained greek kind).
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I can relate to this thread completely. I changed my dosa/ idli breakfast to 5 Boiled eggs ( 1 whole egg and 4 egg whites) few moths before. I made few other adjustments to increase protein intake. It changed my body for better.
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