Taste of India's market stall, Dublin

This was an attempt for a quick spot of lunch midst of a soggy day at the Bloom garden festival in Dublin's Phoenix Park. As a part of the festival, there was a small "food market", with a plethora of stalls, selling mostly artisan cheeses and bakery goods, but also hot and cold snack foods, like Cornish pasties and traditional-type savoury pies.

There was a reasonable variety of obviously vegetarian things, but, as usual, the vegan was a bit lost. In the rain, I gave in to the lure of a hot meal, and went for the vegetable curry - labelled vegetarian *and* vegan! - from the Taste of India stall. The curry was ladled on top of a nearly full plastic container (of the sort you get your take-outs in) of rice, so you didn't get all that much bang for your buck in the first place. And once I tucked in... Bland, except for the burn of too much chilli, the veg was mostly peas and sweetcorn, and there wasn't all that much of even that. Disappointed, I didn't finish, despite being hungry - this is very, very unusual of me.

In conclusion, I should've gone to the Itsa Bagel stall instead, and got myself a bagel with some hummus and other nice things, instead of the overpriced curry. On the Tiwinaku rain gauge, the Taste of India stall at the Bloom gets not a drop.

So there.