As I understand it, Indians, similar to Chinese (my ethnicity), try to balance their food so that if there's "heating" food, there's "cooling" food to balance it out. (This is not referring to temperature, but rather to a food property... For example, in the novel "The Death of Vishnu", someone says a mango is "heating" while a banana is "cooling" ... But it's not like a mango's temperature is hot and a banana is cold like ice cream.)

Is that right?

So anyway, a problem I have that I hope you guys can help me with is, what foods do you consider "cooling"? What could I order in an Indian restaurant that would be "cooling"? For Chinese, all spicy food is "heating" ... Is that also what Indians think? So what is "cooling"? I neeeeed Indian food, but can't eat it that much if I only eat "heating" stuff.

Okay, does that make sense? LOL.

Thanks for your help to let me know what are "cooling" foods that I can order at a restaurant.

Hmm okay... Yeah i guess heating food would also be spicey
food. Cooling food would be sweet food to neutralize the spiceyness.

And if your mouth is really on fire i recommend a good ole glass of milk
Seriously, that helps the best

Thanks! Any particular sweet foods you know that could be part of a meal at a restaurant?

Yeah but not milk after chicken/lamb or fish, or you will not exactly feel on top

Yeah plus its not kosjer Okay sorry, lame joke =p

2 jfung29: Well i know some desserts, but to be honest i dont know the traditional
dishes that well. You see, my parents are from Surinam. So the food that my mom
cooks have different names although they could be similar to the traditional Indian dishes

Me have 'Sickhan' at weddings it's real nice, or 'kerry ne rus' ? I dunno if I got them write lol I barely know any of my own language!

Never heard of those two So what is you own language
exactly? (btw yur avi is sick hahaaha)

what about 'Falooda' or 'kearn' or 'keer', 2 sweet dishes

Guji lol - I can garuntee I ain't spelt it right, cause I just spelt it on how I said it, and I can't exactly speak it these days lol

Tried Falooda when I was in India, was real nice, probably one of the only things that digested in me

Sickhan - Youghurt & Milk & Sugar and prob other stuff - Sweet served cold, looks whitey yellow with bits in

r 'kerry ne rus' Mango juicy thing? Crazy $hit taste real nice!

Thanks jacked it myself (Thanks whoever made it )

Nice to know a next indian person listens to something other than Hip-Hop/RnB/Bhangra lol

Almonds are supposed be cooling. I don't know of any other.

Hahaa =p
Oh believe me I aint that much of a bhangra fan...
Oh so you are gujurati, cool =)

Ya but you still like Indian movehs from the looks of your sig + avi, so you just as bad

Ya I am

Ya thats true, i love B-wood man
But i associate bhangra with lame-@$$ parties with my stupid relatives
Hahahaha...

try

Seekhand, is like indian pudding with variety of fruit flavors.
Jalebi = fried sugar rings covered with honey
Gulab Jambu = reddish sweet puffs in a sugar sauce

i dont really eat too many sweets though i love Mango Juice or Pulp.

there are too many sweets to name i dont even know half of their names. just pick a variety pack of sweets at your local indian/paki grocery store.

Thanks for all your help, folks! We'll see if I can put any of this into practice ...

Don't worry, I only eat veg food anyway, so that won't come up. Thanks for the tip though.

holy $hit i'm glad i'm filipino we don't need to worry about cooling and heating foods, that are not cold nor hot. hehe.

Finally remember my AF password!!!!!!!!!!!!

Its been a while

Jalebi = OMG too sweet!!!!!!!!!1
Gulab Jambu = ewwwwwwwww
Seekhand = This is the $hit I was talking about earlier on



Love the stuff

Welcome back ey =)