Waking up at 5am and braving the sweltering heat at 6m and a one hour rickety bus ride, having breakfast at a narrow old part of the town where "hygiene conditions" are so non-existent that someone who works in a government hospital wanted to throw-up, still bravely hogging the delicious warm dumplings and soup, then going straight to a pharmacy and downing de-worming, acidity and enzyme tablets.

Someone would ask why go all this length to upset your system and some others would say that we are perfect target customers for American advertisements: eat and then take meds to reverse the effects of eating (which include screwing with your digestive system and putting on pounds of unwanted weight).

We do funny things for the things we love. and food figures right up that list. Such is life, and what is life without its share of madness ? :)