It's May again in Chennai, and that means it's going to get into the high 30s Celsius (that's in the 100s for my Fahrenheit using friends). Which means that unless you were born here, you have your A/C blasting and are finding ways to pass the time indoors. It's also summer holidays for the schools here so all the malls and other few indoor gathering places are fairly packed.
So what can you do?
Here are a few tips for coping with the heat:
1. Drinking some sweet lime juice or sweet lime soda help take a little of the edge off. Other drinks that help are aam panna (you can get a good one made by Paperboat in most stores, I get mine at Wait Rose) or Nimbooz (by the makers of 7UP, also in most stores). Some people say the tender coconut water helps, for that you have to find a street vendor.
2. Go to the beach. If you don't like how crowded Marina and Elliot's beach are then drive a little further down the ECR a little till you get to Ideal Beach Resort. There is a fee to use the beach, but it's clean.
3. Load up on cucumbers or even try freezing some fruit such as : grapes, cut up mango, apple, etc, etc.
4. Go for ice cream/frozen yogurt. Ice cream shops have been popping up a lot in the last year. People here will say you have to drink some warm water after having ice cream or you'll get sick, but I have yet to have any kind of issue with that. There's Cream & Fudge,Ibaco, Baskin Robbins, Amadora (they are a local homemade place, so good), and for frozen yogurt there is Menchie's. If you go to Khader Nawaz Khan Road you will find a Cream & Fudge, Amadora and Menchie's.
5. People here say that you should eat thayir saadam aka curd rice, (plain yogurt mixed with plain rice with a touch of salt, and sometimes a few spices) after eating a meal to cool you down, but it tastes so bad I just can't do it. But if you want to try it out, please do.
Hope you make it to the other side of the summer heat wave.
Good luck!
So what can you do?
Here are a few tips for coping with the heat:
1. Drinking some sweet lime juice or sweet lime soda help take a little of the edge off. Other drinks that help are aam panna (you can get a good one made by Paperboat in most stores, I get mine at Wait Rose) or Nimbooz (by the makers of 7UP, also in most stores). Some people say the tender coconut water helps, for that you have to find a street vendor.
2. Go to the beach. If you don't like how crowded Marina and Elliot's beach are then drive a little further down the ECR a little till you get to Ideal Beach Resort. There is a fee to use the beach, but it's clean.
3. Load up on cucumbers or even try freezing some fruit such as : grapes, cut up mango, apple, etc, etc.
4. Go for ice cream/frozen yogurt. Ice cream shops have been popping up a lot in the last year. People here will say you have to drink some warm water after having ice cream or you'll get sick, but I have yet to have any kind of issue with that. There's Cream & Fudge,Ibaco, Baskin Robbins, Amadora (they are a local homemade place, so good), and for frozen yogurt there is Menchie's. If you go to Khader Nawaz Khan Road you will find a Cream & Fudge, Amadora and Menchie's.
5. People here say that you should eat thayir saadam aka curd rice, (plain yogurt mixed with plain rice with a touch of salt, and sometimes a few spices) after eating a meal to cool you down, but it tastes so bad I just can't do it. But if you want to try it out, please do.
Hope you make it to the other side of the summer heat wave.
Good luck!
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