street food

there being no nice looking bars in the immediate vicinity of my hotel, I sat with a bunch of Japanese and Koreans (teaching each other Korean and Japanese - turns out I still remember enough Japanese to know what they were teaching! hurrah! ich spreche kleine nihongo!) and ate a large plate of rice for Rs5/= - I intended to read my book (Eye of the World... seems to have rather similar story line to lord of the rings) but instead just talked to random people. Some street kid who had given up asking for Rupees instead played awhile with my camera; he had difficulty understanding that if he wanted to see someones face in the resulting picture, he should arrange for that face to appear in the view finder at the time of taking. Korean girl tried to help him out but he didn't really understand; nevertheless, he was quite delighted to take pictures of her backside and of my t-shirt and of the road.