Travel
31 countries & counting
0Sunday, 28th September, 2008
by Pushkar Sane
in Travel
We love traveling, meeting new people, appreciating different cultures, enjoying different cuisines and learning something new from every country that we visit. My work as well as personal travel has taken me to 31 countries & over 230 cities/towns/villages (many in India). And many of the small places are not yet there on TripAdvisor mapping tool. 
My goal is to visit over 100 countries – I don’t know how long its going to take but I’m for sure looking forward to reaching that number in next 8-10 years. Lets see how that goes.
Peking Duck in Beijing v/s Hong Kong
0Thursday, 25th September, 2008
This is my successive week in Beijing. We had a management meeting today and post that we went for Chinese Dinner. Being a vegetarian I always get limited choice but its fun to watch different dishes landing on the table. A chinese dinner in Beijing is not complete without a Peking Duck – so it arrived on our table too and Ann Chan made a hilarious comment: “Peking Duck in Hong Kong is better than the one in Beijing – its bigger & more suitable for my palate”.
It kinda made me laugh and I remembered Vatsa who had the guts to order Chole/Bhatura at a South Indian joint saying it is better than the North Indian restaurants. I always laughed at him but I guess some things don’t change across cultures. You always try to justify ‘Food being Better’ based on your own palate & past habits.