Indian experience.....

I've tried their cuisine, at least the curry style, twice and the CB ate it once. She is through with it, as am I when out and about with her as orders are orders.

I'll give it another shot as the first curry I found very good and the second dung. Chalk that up to the restaurant, not the style.

You get the "look" in lots of places. Even from fellow Americans who may be different from you in some manner, and not just color. Most folk around the current residence would greet us with the following first two sentences for the first couple of years, "Hello," followed by the look and "You all not from around here, are you?"

The worst was in Belle Glades, Florida. A true dung heap and very, very scary. It is better now than the first time we went down that way, but still uncomfortable to the extreme.