For the love of food, friendship & wanderlust
As Indians who have always lived outside India, we’ve gotten an “OMG! You are Indian? I love Indian food!” more times than we can remember. Its the perfect ice-breaker because we can talk about food for days. “Yeah? What’s your favourite?”, we ask eagerly. Too many times, the response is “Butter chicken and garlic naan.”
When I started this series on the blog, asking friends to bring me back treats from either their home country or places they were visiting, I was genuinely looking forward to it being a more-or-less delicious affair. It would be eating treats after all! Enter Japan as a game changer, just to make it a tad more adventurous than that culinary
Chai. No matter what anyone has to say about all the fancy teas in the world, there’s nothing as comforting as a hot cup of chai. No fuss, no fancy cups required. We’ve spent many evenings in parking lots near chai shops around old Dubai, sipping on chai, laughing about something that happened over the
Well she got me the treats and a beautiful postcard. I feel like I need to mention that or I would be lying to you. Moving along. When the other she got back from Bali, she had so many amazing stories to share about that place. We always try to do this story share after
It’s been eons since we’ve told you about a favourite neighbourhood joint. Something old Dubai. Something familiar, easy and oh-so-reliable, especially when you’re craving wholesome Indian food. I may not be Parsi but every time I eat here, it feels like home food. For those of you who don’t know, Parsis are a community of
I got to spend a delightful couple of “summer” days in Wellington, New Zealand. I say “summer” because we didn’t really get the “summer” feels while we were there. The coldest day was 13′ C with winds for which this girl who loves the winter, was under prepared. I had one rain jacket and one sweatshirt and