Haleem!

so Hyderabad is famous for Haleem which you get during Ramzan which is now and we are here - I really wanted some and due to exhaustion and colds and the convenience of staying in the hotel we didn't make it out for haleem until our last night here, but we did it. Asked the driver of the auto to take us to Hyderabad House and ended up at Paradise, but what the heck. Paradise is HUGE, you can order to go haleem, stand up and eat haleem, sit down in non-AC haleem and top floor fancy restaurant haleem. we went for the fancy restaurant (cost total: 250 rps for haleem, naan, paratha, lime soda sweet) and the haleem was delicious - omg is it filling. goat that has been cooked for 8 hrs with wheat and spices, fried onions on top. it was a mild spicy level and glutinous. that makes the second new food I have had here that has the consistency of goo.

Hyderabad

Had a great adventure today - went with cyanblue by AUTO (and they mostly used the meter) from ITC Kakatiya to Charminar and watched the parade of trucks with Ganesh on them. We were the only foreigners down there (maybe due to the recent bomb blasts?) and people were very excited to shake our hands and talk to us and wave at us. Lots of roads were blocked off so it took three autos to get there and I think two to get back. We saw the Mecca Masjid and it was beautiful - actually saw several mosques all looked amazing to me.People were throwing the powder they throw during Holi and also throwing flowers, beating drums and dancing. It was very exciting and I think it is amazing we made it there and back. I am so happy we went. We saw lots of tiny roads off the beaten path in order to avoid the road blocks.

Dentist

I went to a fantastic dentist today. He is so great, the superstar of dentist. I had tried to get this problem fixed twice in the US and once at RV dental college and none of those worked. He said, ok let's try a crown instead. His name is Dr. Jagdish Rohira.

http://www.drjagdishrohira.com/

His phone number is 91 80 2361 3286

This morning I had a dentist name and no phone number and both Just Dial and the internet failed to come up with the number. Then I had six other numbers for different dentists and all the numbers said "call failed" over and over again. I feel like I can't dial a phone here. One number said, please try at another time. It was very frustrating. But then I called Dr. Rohira - he could see me right away, he was very easy to talk to, I felt safe, everything was SUPER clean. And he can get my permanent crown on the one day I have between Andamans and Hyderabad. I was SO thankful. And a crown here is about US $200, and in the US a crown will run around $800 _after insurance_. He was so gentle, and you can just tell he has heaps of experience, great touch, great bedside manner. Plus chatted about other things. so relieved.