Asian Treat(Retreat)!!!

Recently I went for an official team lunch to a South Asian cuisine specialist restaurant in Pune - Malaka Spice and was spell bound by the options of food available. The menu had an universal appeal to me from the time GO.From very fine noodles to sweet potatoes' mash as a starter to intriguely cooked prawns with great combination of salt and fine pepper and other spices to some funky shapes of chapattis like Coiled Chapattis to an entire diaspora of European Drinks - both cocktails and mocktails, the Place had it All!!! How I forget the presence of "Great American Deserts".

Sometimes I get intrigued by the universal character of Asia and its countries and cities.

Consider China, you will notice an enormous spell of number 1 over it."1 is power"- Chinese never forget to repeat and repeat over.1 is the most universal number I guess.

Consider India, the world's largest democracy, constitutionally does not distinguish among its widely diverse ethnic,regional,religious groups.

Consider Japan, the collection of about 7000 islands, its capital city Tokyo is the largest metropolitan region in the world. Now what more can explain the universal character of Japan than the literary translation of its name - Japanese name for Japan is Nippon - Land of Rising Sun.

Consider Malaysia, one of the most bio-diverse nations of the world, considering its size it can be said as the most densely bio-diverse nation of the world.

Consider Indonesia - nation with highest Muslim population is greatly diverse as regards to its ethnicity and race.It is known that Indonesian archipelago has been inhabited since not less than 2 million years!!

Consider Russia - the largest nation of the nation, the country where you need to change your

watch 11 times when traversing fully from East to West.Russia almost tops the list in almost all natural resources' chart.

Consider Arabian Peninsula - the largest reserve of Oil, Natural Gas and most prominent land form of lifeless Desert!

Consider Iran/Iraq - world's most turbulent international relation of late.

And last of all(I want to end it quickly because I guess my thoughts will go on!), Consider Afghanistan/Pakistan - source of world's most radical religious fundamentalism.

Universalism never ceases in Asia.