Mithra

I've dropped a few dozen pics of the store that is on Levels 1 and 2 of the IdentityMine building. The store is called Mithra which means "friend". If you find something you like just ask the clerk staring very strangly at me in isle 3 to help check you out at the register.

http://www.therhogue.com/images/Pictures/India/Blog/Mithra

This is not a big store, but it does carry a wide variety of goods. I'm sure I could live in this building if it wasn't for that pesky security guard and his pet watch goat.

Here are a couple of pics from the link above: (you can click on the pictures to see the larger thumbnail pic)

 

You can "Scratch and Win" here...I'm not sure where you scratch or what you win for scratching, but that is what the sign says.

 

I like this pic because the colors came out great as the white florescent light bounced off the varied colors from the fruits and vegetables.

 

Also, on the second floor there is a Restaurant that serves India Chinese food. This is different than American Chinese food, and all of this is different than Chinese Chinese food.

 

There are a lot more pictures in the link I gave you above. For a small store there is a lot of stuff, kids toys and games, school supplies, clothes, appliances, kitchen goods etc... Jophie at IdentityMine showed me some cereal he likes called "Crunchy Muesli" which is a Swiss style cereal with oats and nuts. It's really good. I have it in the mornings from time to time with a banana and cold milk. Now that I think of it, perhaps I should not have mentioned this. If Jophie goes to buy the cereal, and there isn't any left, he is going to hunt me down with his semi-automatic spear gun.

By the way, the story around the abundant use of semi-automatic spear guns is due to the large fishing industry here. Most people found it difficult to catch a lot of fish using a single hand held spear, and with the invention of James Bond films, the adoption of automatic spear guns was an obvious choice. After a few years, there were numerous spearing accidents due to overly sensitive trigger mechanisms, and the local government now requires a person to have a license before they can own an automatic spear gun. Since most people here drive without a license, it makes sense they would own a spearing gun without a license, and thus the semi-automatic gun was created to work around the existing gun laws. If you are wondering why fishing nets are not used much here, it is because India is a very eco-friendly place, and nets have to made out of material that will decompose naturally within a week...which makes nets a lot more expensive that spear rod bullets.

Now let's get back to the regularly scheduled program. When you shop for banana's in India, you buy them green because they are ripe at that stage. A fully yellow banana is too ripe. In the U.S. a green banana is equivalent to a small stick you might beat your little brother up with until he starts crying. Another factoid is that I can put the bananas in the refrigerator for over a week, and they will not age. The same method of keeping bananas doesn't appear to work on ittle brothers unfortunately.

 

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