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Okay so a little ease up off the serious stuff....

As a Native American, the foods we eat are a LOT different than Punjabi food...

We eat lots of corn and potatoes and ...yes...meat...and greens and breads and so on...but, as you may or may not be able to imagine, our food does not have NEARLY as many spices as Punjabi food

So before about 6 months ago, I never even had Punjabi food before....well now, in the last month I have eaten it everyday!

I miss my tasteless potatoes

I miss my neutral corn

My yummy cornbread

But I don't have a kitchen right now, so my friends cook for me and invite me to their house to eat. I am soooooooo appreciative!

But i have found lately that I cannot eat the food anymore!

No matter how hungry I get, as soon as I put the food in my mouth, I want to spit it out! And its not because it tastes bad, but I just think my body can't handle it anymore.

I have a feeling that the guy who does most of the cooking is starting to feel disrespected because I put VERY little on my plate and I can't even finish that!

He doesn't speak great English, and I don't speak any Punjabi and very little Arabic, so I cannot express to him that the food is good, I just can't handle it. and no one else will translate it for me, they just say don't worry about it, but I see the contempt on his face when I throw away the food on my plate....I'm sorry!

Any tips you guys might have for me on digesting the food? Oh and many times I have woken up in the morning after eating the food, puking my guts out....its not fun!

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First of all I don't know why you mentioned Arabic, because practically no Sikh speaks it.

Tell the guy to ease up on the spices and the oil/butter those are the two things that cause digestion problems.

It's the reason I don't like eating out at Indian restaurants. I always end up with a stomach ache the next day. But lot's of people eat similar style of food at home and consequently end up fat.

My mother's food is a lot more healthy because she doesn't load it with oil or chillies.

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The Panjabi word for chillis is 'mirch'

pronounced mir-ch with a lot of emphasis on the last 'ch' (pronounced like the 'ch' in church).

Just say to him 'no mirch for me!' and then point at your stomach and say 'hurt'.

That should do the job.

Or write a short sentence explaining yourself in English and post it here, then someone could translate it into Gurmukhi/Panjabi and you could print it out and give it to the brother?

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First of all I don't know why you mentioned Arabic, because practically no Sikh speaks it.

Tell the guy to ease up on the spices and the oil/butter those are the two things that cause digestion problems.

It's the reason I don't like eating out at Indian restaurants. I always end up with a stomach ache the next day. But lot's of people eat similar style of food at home and consequently end up fat.

My mother's food is a lot more healthy because she doesn't load it with oil or chillies.

he speaks arabic...

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Okay so a little ease up off the serious stuff....

As a Native American, the foods we eat are a LOT different than Punjabi food...

We eat lots of corn and potatoes and ...yes...meat...and greens and breads and so on...but, as you may or may not be able to imagine, our food does not have NEARLY as many spices as Punjabi food

So before about 6 months ago, I never even had Punjabi food before....well now, in the last month I have eaten it everyday!

I miss my tasteless potatoes

I miss my neutral corn

My yummy cornbread

But I don't have a kitchen right now, so my friends cook for me and invite me to their house to eat. I am soooooooo appreciative!

But i have found lately that I cannot eat the food anymore!

No matter how hungry I get, as soon as I put the food in my mouth, I want to spit it out! And its not because it tastes bad, but I just think my body can't handle it anymore.

I have a feeling that the guy who does most of the cooking is starting to feel disrespected because I put VERY little on my plate and I can't even finish that!

He doesn't speak great English, and I don't speak any Punjabi and very little Arabic, so I cannot express to him that the food is good, I just can't handle it. and no one else will translate it for me, they just say don't worry about it, but I see the contempt on his face when I throw away the food on my plate....I'm sorry!

Any tips you guys might have for me on digesting the food? Oh and many times I have woken up in the morning after eating the food, puking my guts out....its not fun!

WOW UR NATIVE!! I LOVE TRIBAL STUFF AND PEOPLE!!! ino that has nothing to do wiht the convo but wow!! lol

i love the arbaic language!!

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