India Festival

One of my favorite things about summer is all the events that go on around town. I briefly dropped by the India Fest yesterday.

I mostly wanted to get food, so I got a masala dosa and split an order of samosas. I also finally tried a mango lassi, which I’ve often seen in Indian restaurants but have somehow never gotten. It was quite good, basically like a mango smoothie, a bit thicker than I’d imagined, but not overly sweet. I don’t generally drink anything other than water when I eat out (unless I’m at a bar), but I’ll have to keep mango lassi in mind next time I get Indian food.

I didn’t stay very long for the performances and such, but as you can tell from the picture, there were tons of people and it was all a very festive atmosphere. You can tell me if I’m being horribly stereotypical here, but I feel like Indian people have more fun compared to say, Japanese people, at least in their celebrations. Japan, particularly traditional Japan, seems to like things a bit more…restrained.

In my book at the very least, you can’t go wrong with a culture whose main contribution to world cinema is musicals!