Adventures in India 6: New Dehli Tourism 5

On our last day in New Dehli we were also taking it a little easy, sleeping in and then going to visit with a childhood friend of our Hindi-speaking friend in the afternoon. More pictures of the day are on Flickr.

We did not have great directions and did some wandering around this shopping district looking for our destination

Next to a university we found a large fleet of Domino's delivery bikes - guess pizza is student-bait in India too

It turns out that the friend runs a restaurant, focused on chocolate, that has an eclectic menu.  Note the 'cornbread' and Doritos-based nachos

Desserts!

More desserts.

After getting fed until we were very full and having an extended time with both conversation and full-speed wifi, we went back to the hotel (took an Indian Uber-competitor that wasn't super convenient but did increase the forms of local transit we've used) and took a nap. Ana was feeling super cranky* and crappy after the nap and decided not to come out, but the rest of us went to dinner at an all-you-can-eat kabob place in the expensive/touristy Connaught Place center of the new city. We couldn't get seats right away and went to the rooftop bar next door which was an entirely acceptable place to hang out if you were willing to pay US prices for drinks. Pluses - all the meats were tasty and the prices were outrageous for India which is still fairly cheap for the US. Downside - there was a guy with a whistle going around trying to sell tequila shots and he'd sneak up behind you, whistle really loud, and then try to sell the liquor. That was seriously obnoxious and my eye-daggers were ineffective at killing him, though he did stop coming around. I tried to order Indian wine (pretty sure I've never had any from India, worth it for the novelty) but they were entirely out. Also obnoxious - the things on sticks shown on the plate. They're a sort of dairy product, but somehow I was talked into trying the green one by someone who knew more than me, which turned out to be green tobacco flavored which was DISGUSTING.  

After our last big-city dinner in New Dehli, headed back to the hotel and sleep in preparation of beginning the traveling portion of our India tour, starting bright and early the next morning.

*This turned out to be a cold or something - it went through every member of the group and for a day or two each, we were completely unwilling to deal with life and were unbearable to be around. For the first two people this was disturbing and then after that it was hysterically funny as we knew what was going on and could just humor the current victim.