This is a roadside restaurant for rickshaw drivers and others who are looking for the basics – bananas, bread, and a cigarette. (Others nearby offered slightly more filling options, including eggs and noodles.) Because of the food price increases, rice has become unaffordable for people at the lowest income levels – like rickshaw drivers. They might only eat bananas and biscuits after pedaling their rickshaw around all day in the sun.
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Rickshaw Rest Stop
Published October 13, 2008 Dhaka , Food , People , Transportation , Urban Scenes 1 Comment
And here’s a close-up of the crabs on sale at the same restaurant. I nearly ordered one before I realized that they were still very much alive, although they sat very still while I took this picture. Yes, they do cook them before they serve them to you, but I just can’t pick out a live animal and ask for that for dinner. I wouldn’t survive a day in the wild.
M playing with his food. We went to one of those seafood restaurants where you’re supposed to actually pick out the fish you want before they cook it up for you right there. This grosses me out, as I prefer my food a few steps removed from animal form before it lands on my plate. For example, I really, really prefer if it comes without the head. Anyways, this is what M had. He said it was good. I went with shrimp, which I did not have to select myself.
Fish – and some shrimp – on sale in the market downtown. Across the street, live crab was selling for 10 taka each, about 15 cents.
This is a mobile, hand-cranked sugarcane press, which squeezes the syrup out of the sugarcane - leaving you with essentially liquid sugar. We use the syrup here to sweeten drinks like lemonade and ice tea. It’s fantastic.
Another rural scene today – rice spread out to dry.
Goats waiting for slaughter. Also in the market downtown.
This explains why I sometimes have trouble with the food here. Another picture from the market downtown.
Veggies at a rural market. Prominently featured is eggplant, one of the main foods used for Iftar, the meal for breaking the Ramadan fast each day. Due to Ramadan, eggplant prices are up to 80 taka a kilo in the city (about $1.15), but it is fresher in the countryside and costs about half as much.
