DAY 26

This is the top of a paan stall outside the south Indian restaurant I had lunch at today. This type of paan is usually chewed after a meal as a kind of digestif. It's mildly stimulating, or so they say. You wrap the betel leaf around the various bits in the middle (this is a sweet one so candied fruits and coconut and areca nut, maybe some tobacco) and pop it in your mouth and chew. And then spit. A lot.