Tamer Hindi?
At the local hookah joint, smokediceman decides to try the exotic sounding "tamer hindi (sweet and sour fruit)". It's listed under "fruit juices and smoothies", so I ask the pitt-student-by-day waitress what it's made of. "Of tamer hindi!" she exclaims and then seeing the blank looks adds "it's a pulpy thing, comes in blocks ..".
After a few sips of the maroon colored drink, smokediceman pronounces it to be like lassi. I think it's more like kokum juice. He says it could very well be, with an east-asian name like that. Few more sips and it dawns on me: tamer hindi --> tamer-indi --> tamarind!!
So the exotic thing was just tamarind juice after all. Except it was v.delicious. Later I found out that it's a traditional Ramadan drink. And "tamer hindi" stands literally for "Indian date" .. makes sense, doesn't it? And it comes in blocks too ;-)
After a few sips of the maroon colored drink, smokediceman pronounces it to be like lassi. I think it's more like kokum juice. He says it could very well be, with an east-asian name like that. Few more sips and it dawns on me: tamer hindi --> tamer-indi --> tamarind!!
So the exotic thing was just tamarind juice after all. Except it was v.delicious. Later I found out that it's a traditional Ramadan drink. And "tamer hindi" stands literally for "Indian date" .. makes sense, doesn't it? And it comes in blocks too ;-)