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| Hotel Meghniwas
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| The main entrance to our hotel.
| The hotel's courtyard pool. The dining room, where we ate dinner the
previous night, is just off the left side of this picture.
| The stately marble staircase that leads up to our room.
| The previous day has pictures of our room.
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| Late Breakfast at Jai Shankar Pavitra Bhojnalaya
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| The place where we had breakfast. The name transliterated to Jai
Shankar Pavitra Bhojnalaya.
| My gobi parantha was thin, like an understuffed quesadilla. It tasted
baked, not fried. We'd certainly have better parantha during our trip.
| J's alu pyaz parantha was similar.
| Shahi raita, mixed with tomatoes.
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| A vegetable dish recommended by the waiter. It was like the pasaand
from last night but better.
| We ate the vegetable dish with roti. The waiter brought our roti order
in batches, thus ensuring we always had fresh, hot roti with which to
eat: the sign of a good restaurant.
| A lassi.
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| Jaipur: Outside the Walls
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| A surprisingly high-end pedestrianized electronics shopping street.
| McDonald's has a different menu in India. Sadly, they wouldn't allow me
to take a picture inside the restaurant, but this sign on the outside
lists at least one of the many truly Indian items.
Despite the
novelty, I declined to try anything.
| The shopping mall near the coffee shop we stopped in. We ventured here
to try the bathrooms. It turned out they were part of a nearby hotel
and thus were first-rate.
| The mall's domed skylight.
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| Jaipur: Old Town (Inside the Walls)
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| A random street in Old Town.
| One of the large central circles in Old Town.
Later, we'd climb
the minaret visible in the distance.
| A man on the street who we watched making rings. It sounded like he
sold them to the shopkeepers who, in turn, marked them up substantially
and sold them to customers.
| Lots of marigolds sale.
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| One of the forts overlooking Jaipur, as seen from the top of the minaret.
| A different fort, on a different hill.
| Rooftops in Old Town Jaipur.
| A video panorama of Jaipur, also as seen from the top of the minaret.
Since I moved the camera quickly, you'd get a better impression of
the town if you pause the video repeatedly.
In the last third of the video, I dip the camera to better document
the appearance of the buildings in Jaipur.
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| A view down to one of Old Town's main throughways. The video shows the
prevalence of different vehicles.
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| Late Lunch at Laxmi Mishthan Bhandar (LMB)
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| Laxmi Mishthan Bhandar's (LMB's) sign condemns "unwholesome" food.
| LBM, in addition to having a restaurant, has a huge sweet shop.
| We bought a huge box of assorted goodies. These would last
for many days.
At some point, after processing my notes from each item we
tried as we ate it, I may return and label every item in this picture.
The chhum chum is the silver and green sweet in the left half.
The kesari dudh mathai is the yellow square.
The khala khan is the metallic-looking, yellow square. Cakey. It's very good.
The cashew barfi is the white diamond. It's okay/decent.
| J was recovering from a cold and so ordered tomato soup
to start her meal.
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| Kadi chhokomwali: soft balls of fried gram flour with a thick gravy made
from Rajasthani herbs and yogurt.
| Bela rajasthani: "spicy and steamed thick gram
flour dumplings with spices in a Jaipur gravy." Spicy.
| Dal makhani. We all agreed this was very good, probably the best
version of this dish we had on this trip. (Since J is a fan,
we tried it at a few different places.) I liked it, and I don't
usually like dals.
| Roti, including ajwain roti. Ajwain roti, which is hard to find,
is the one dotted with that appear to be fennel seeds (but
are not fennel seeds). I liked it. Also, it was certainly more
crispy/toasted than regular roti.
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| The food also came with tiny vinegared red onions, a common extra.
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