Lazy Sunday Photo- The Chang Story
Chang- The Local Home Brewed Beer from SpitiOnce again, I decided to write about food or rather drinks, this time. I generally do not like alcoholic drinks and stay away from them. Given a choice I like soup over alcohol any day. And both tend to cost a ton in restaurants! I know it is strange comparison but that is how it is.
This changed a little when I discovered chang in Spiti. The locally brewed beer tastes nothing like a Foster brewed in Aurangabad or some such place. I mean I can't stand Foster or Kingfisher. They have such a nasty stink (or so I feel and I know I am alone in this) that after one sip I do not try another. Chang has no nasty sting about it and I liked both the barley and the rice versions.
Then on the trip to Oxford last year we had a dinner hosted by the university (no and this is not the Oxford I am referring to) at a Thai restaurant called Chiang Mai. There were four of us, my colleague from India and two of my colleagues from UK. So when we started ordering soon the question came, "What would you like to drink?" I gave the default option, "Nothing." Then I browsed the beer list anyway and discovered Chang on the list. Not thinking too much, I changed my mind and decided to order Chang. It of course turned out to be a popular beer from Thailand but minus the stink. It was not the Chang I wanted but it was quite OK. The end result was that I ended up trying a lot of beers in UK and now I have to say, once in a blue moon I may pick them up over soup.
This changed a little when I discovered chang in Spiti. The locally brewed beer tastes nothing like a Foster brewed in Aurangabad or some such place. I mean I can't stand Foster or Kingfisher. They have such a nasty stink (or so I feel and I know I am alone in this) that after one sip I do not try another. Chang has no nasty sting about it and I liked both the barley and the rice versions.
Then on the trip to Oxford last year we had a dinner hosted by the university (no and this is not the Oxford I am referring to) at a Thai restaurant called Chiang Mai. There were four of us, my colleague from India and two of my colleagues from UK. So when we started ordering soon the question came, "What would you like to drink?" I gave the default option, "Nothing." Then I browsed the beer list anyway and discovered Chang on the list. Not thinking too much, I changed my mind and decided to order Chang. It of course turned out to be a popular beer from Thailand but minus the stink. It was not the Chang I wanted but it was quite OK. The end result was that I ended up trying a lot of beers in UK and now I have to say, once in a blue moon I may pick them up over soup.
Labels: Food, Lazy Sunday Photo, Oxford, Spiti, UK
posted by Mridula at 6:43 PM
7 Comments:
Are you planning to turn this travel blog into food blog? :-)Just pulling your leg.
Na re, see the next post and I running in completely opposite direction.
The only form of alchohol I ever ingest is as an ingredient of a homeopathic medine or in a cough syrup.
:D
so how much cough syrup do you drink Sidhu :D
My first encounter with "Chilled Beer, Sold Here" was many many years back in Kalyanpur (near Kanpur) and my immediate reaction was – How the heck people enjoy this nasty stuff? I gave beer another try after a long gap of 5-6 years; and believe me I still do not cherish it the way Kiwis, Germans and Americans do. However, I recently tried Miller Chill (low alcohol) and really enjoyed it. My favorite drinks are Thai iced tea/ coffee, Mango Shake and Panaa (sour drink made of green mango pulp).
Dear Mridula,
What a coincidence! After all these years (we won't say how many), I'm actually losing my taste for beer.
Now I'm partial to chilled red wine.
Steve H
Atul, Kalyanpur brings back memories! Fond or not I am not sure.
Thanks for sharing Steve, it is always good to hear from you.
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