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Khaan - Paan

There are people who eat to live and then there are people who live to eat. I would fall in the category more weighted towards the latter. Food and I feel good. Food and life looks beautiful. By mere smell which is caught by our air cooler, I can tell you what is cooking. I even start dreaming of food. Gluttony is my trait. They would say I follow what I am. A Maithil. My partner's family had got a crash course before the marriage on the expectations of food habits of Maithils. I have heard and seen people eating and competing to eat .One of my cousin had a bet of eating maximum rasgullas without taking the ras out of it. And jolly he, he ended up eating 70 rasgullas. Not that he was full but the restaurant had no more stock left. There are infamous tail of Maithils and their food habits. And quotations. Even a bland khichdi has its proverbs... "Khichdi ke chaar yaar, dahi, papad, ghee achaar. Then another one says "Aadi ghee aur anta dahi, ohi bhojan ke bhojan kahi&quo