Every time I visit Goa, I come back home with more than just memories of blurry nights fueled with a lot of alcohol and dancing or long days spent lounging on the beach stuffing my face at a shack. I come back with treasures like Goan sausage, Bebinca which...
In any Parsi household you can find a cauldron of dhansak boiling, marinated fish resting before they're fried or even cutlets and kebabs waiting to be devoured. Parsis tend to be extremely loyal to the food they eat. That means they don't step out on Parsi food and cook...
I'm writing this blog post as my official entry for a 16 day food tour around Portugal conducted by APTECE Portugal which I came across while reading Nelson Carvalheiro's blog. For the contest I'm asked to write what food means to me, why it's my main reason for travelling and what...
It isn't everyday that you get to meet famous chefs who's cook books you've salivated over or who's tv shows you've watched eagerly or who's recipes you constantly source on youtube. So when the effervescent Rachel Allen popped into town for a charity dinner, I jumped at the chance...
Trying to decide where we should eat is possibly one of the biggest challenges my family faces. Everyone wants something different or is not in the ' mood ' to eat at a particular place. We want something new, somewhere we've not been before, some place which isn't far...
The one place in Singapore I absolutely loved was Chinatown. Truth be told I'd be comfortable in a Chinatown in any city. I'm already involved in a mad passionate love affair with their food, but I'm starting to fall in love with all things Chinese. I spent half a...
While a lot of travelers are happy to rough it out and make the most of cheap accommodations,( I do it as often as I can as well my bank balance doesn't always allow for extravagance) I wait for the time when I get to spoil myself and check...
Forget the coconut in everything, the gorgeous luxury hotels and the kick ass food, one of the coolest things in Kerala is their very own Martial Arts form called Kalaripayattu. Whenever I think martial arts I think of Chinese or Japanese men prancing around skillfully with crazy acrobatics and jumps...
This is where the Kerala Blog Express starts to get really interesting. Alleppey a region in Kerala that's famous for its massive backwater channel is flooded with luxury house boats. I use the term luxury loosely because some might think it's not fancy enough but I think it's pretty...
I think my introduction to Italian cuisine was Spaghetti and meatballs. It's the first time I ate pasta in any form and for years I thought spaghetti is just spaghetti and pasta is some new concoction. My granny use to make me spaghetti and tomato sauce and load it...