Tel Aviv and Israeli Food - I

Ok, the place where I am staying is the heart and centre of the city.
A 5-10 minutes walk from the beach.
My apartment is a single room studio apartment with a bathroom, kitchenette, and a balcony that opens towards the main street.
Things are pretty expensive here if you convert your expenses to INR. :)
Coke is much cheaper than water.

a 250 ml of water bottle that costs Rs 9 in India now costs something around Rs 70 here!
Coke cans are Rs 45-50 or something.
Most shops keep open till 0300 hrs in the night!
Its all safe as you can see girls who by the Indian standards are almost always scantily clad, move around all night and I see them walking alone.

No signs of Army in the city except for the one off soldier waiting for a vehicle or something....probably they go to Jerusalem as I see them on the road to Jerusalem.
Traffic is superfast here. (120 kmph is normal speed)
Taxis are anything between a Skoda Octavia and a Mercedez Benz.
It takes just 40 minutes from here to Jerusalem which is 60 kms away!

Food!
At office, my peers take me to a different restaurant everyday so that I get to taste as much Israeli food as possible.

At night, the first night here I just played safe and took a burger from McDonalds and yesterday I had a Shavarma Roll which is actually Arab food and I have had it in Bangalore.
But in Bangalore it is Chicken and here it is Turkey.
Not much beef is eaten here. they say it is 99% Chicken/Turkey.

I had "Chicken Breast with some kinda sauce yesterday" (I dont exactly remember the name) and I had "Shikar kua" or something like that and tasted a little bit of "Homos"
The first one is a dish made of eggs and tomato sauce with lots of other stuff in it and the other one was I dont know what. It was supposed to be taken with Peter bread which looks similar to the buns we have in India, just a little more flat and the speciality is that it has a pouch in it!

People eat rather early here, Lunch is at 1100 hrs!
The office is good, you have 5 different types of coffee and 2 types of Tea to choose from.

fortunately there is water too! yes I have been craving for it...they dont drink water at all...

Beer, Milk, Fruits anything you want and as much as you want...I take only the fruits.
People are friendly.
I will explore the city more once I have a little more time after tomorrow and will send you updates. :)

By the way the beaches are beautiful and the babes are hot! ;)

Dream on!

Sing with me,
Sing for the year,
Sing for the laughter,
Sing for the tear,
Sing with me,
Just for today,
May be tomorrow the Good Lord will take you away.
Dream on, Dream on,
Dream on till your dream comes true....

These are lines from one of the most inspirational rock songs ever (personal view)
and these lines are so true...
We Indians are now making our dreams come true...
The dream of seeing every child getting proper education, the dream of healthy food and shelter for every single citizen of the country, the dream of being a pioneer of innovation, the dream of being a world leader, the dream of being among the uniformly prosperous countries of the world.
And we're doing it, slowly and steadily but we're making progress.
Though the boom in the economy cannot be deemed slow but at the grass root level, the progress is still slow but not absent.
Its because we're working our asses off to make our dreams come true.
And the magnitude of our dreams knows no bounds...
Here goes to show the world, that we Indians are not hesitant about dreaming!
I found a live example last month while I was traveling from Chennai to Mahabalipuram on my friend's scooter!


Have a look...

No offense intended, but....
aargh, I'll be a nice man and say I wish and pray that his dreams come true one day!
Amen...