Food:
Both vegetarian and non-vegetarian food is available at stores in Socorro. For vegetarian
(or 'Vegan' as mentioned in America) they will find hard time to find food outside.
Every student generally cook at their apartment. So it is advisable to bring utensils
from home. It is also advisable to bring spices etc. from home as they are not available
in Socorro and one need to go to Indian stores at Albquerque(78 miles) for getting them.
Most of the vegetables, fruits, breads,oil, milk etc are available at following
superstores in Socorro.
I hope that some of you might have not visited or rarely visiting the so called
space in your home i.e. Kitchen. If this true for you then do one thing before
coming to US. Take a tour of your kitchen. Just try to learn how to cook. As you
have to cook. Just consult your mother, sister to learn cooking and also for
important vessels required to cook food.We are herewith providing brief list of
vessels generally required. You can add/subtract as per your own food eating/cooking
habbits. Here is list of items to be brought from home.
Cooking Hardware
| Item |
Quantity |
| Pressure Cooker 3 litre |
1 |
| Spare cooker valve, gasket, accessories |
2 or 3 |
| Non-stick frying pan |
1 |
| Kadhai/Big utensil |
1 |
| Big Spoons/Spatula |
2 |
| Steel Plates/Dishes |
2 |
| Utensils /Patelis |
1-2 |
| Steel Glasses |
3-4 |
| Pakkad/Tong |
1 |
| Tea Making utensil |
1 |
| Tea filter/Galane |
2 |
| Knife - Good quality |
2 (Do not put in cabin baggage!) |
| Cutting board - To cut vegetables on it |
1 |
| Spoons small size |
3-4 |
| Peeler (To peel off fruits, etc) |
1 |
| Cooking Receipe |
Recomended if you are going to cook first time |
Cooking Groceries - Items mentioned below depends on your food habbits. So
bring the quantity based on your daily use.
| Tea Powder |
2 kg |
| Instant Cofee |
Cheaply available |
| Turmeric Powder/Haldi |
250 gms |
| Red chilly powder |
250 gms* |
| Garam Masala |
250 gms* |
| Dhania Powder |
250 gms* |
| Jeera Powder |
250 gms* |
| Mustard Seeds/Mouri/Mohari/Rai |
250 gms* |
| Cumins Seed/Jeera |
250 gms* |
| Sambhar Masala |
4 pkt (bring in good quantity) |
| Cholle Masala, Chana Masala |
2-3 pkt |
| Dals (which you like) |
0.5 - 1.0 kgs |
| Tamrind powder/Paste |
3-4 |
| Hing |
2 packets |
| Rava/Suji |
1 kg (helpful in begining) |
| Elaichi and Clove(laung) |
100 gms each (Optional) |
| Rice/Sugar/Salt |
Please do not bring this |
| Maggi |
Bring as much as you can, helpful in begining |
| Biscuits/Pickel(well packed)/Papad |
Bring as much as you like* |
* Note
1.0 Remember you baggage limitations
2.0 Learn cooking at home before coming here
3.0 Indian grocery is available at Albquerque, so don't think that you reached
to dead end of the world where no indian grocery will be available
Restaurants:
Socorro is a small town, so do not expect much variety in food. We do not have
any indian restaurant here at Socorro. You can enjoy Mexican food at lot of
restaurants here like El Sombero, El Camino, etc. You can even enjoy Chinese food
at China Best Buffet. If you do like pizzas, burgesrs and you are non-veg then
you will not find any difficulty in finding food. We do have McDonanls, Denny,
Pizza Hut, Subway, Tac Bell, etc etc.
If you are vegetarian than you need to learn some things while ordering at
restaurants i.e. either you can say strict vegan dish or you can specify things
like that no beef, no fish, no meat, no chicken, no egg, no pork like that.
Disclaimer:1.0 Above mentioned logo belongs to Wallmart Stores and Smith Foods and Drug
Stores. INSA does not have any connection with them and do not intend to endorse them or
defame them. This image is just for information purpose. We are courteous to
them, as we are using there logo.
2.0 We are also courteous to Socorro Springs and El Camino Restaurant as we are
using their restaurant picture also. These pictures were just intended to provide
information and not sought for endorsing them or harming them.
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