The dim sum that reminded me of Yeerks. High-five if you know what Yeerks are. I’m not a fish person (or a vegetable person, but that’s another story), so it may come to a surprise to many that for the last few weeks I have been partaking of seafood, with no qualms whatsoever. For example,…
Category: UAE
Restaurant disappointment thwarted by Red Panda Brownies.
This post has no pictures. What this post does have is a massive rant. In a height of massive disappointment I have not felt since a restaurant on the JBR Walk lost my patronage forever by telling my dinner party that the meat in front of us always tasted like the bowels of a salt…
Three Vimtos and a Machboos – my Emirati food experience
I’d been to Al Fanar back in January this year. Not to eat, but to cover the interiors for the magazine I write for. I shall shamelessly plug the feature I wrote here, and ask that if you want to see more fantastic interior shots, to click on this link, and go to page 35….
Smiling BKK, you can Thai me any way you want
“We need to find the Mona Lisa!” I squealed. My partner in crime last night was @movie_mafia, who whipped her head back and forth to spot the elusive, smiling woman. Fear not…I was not luring the young MM into a world of crime amidst the cobbled streets of Paris, but cruising with her in Guido…
Taste of Dubai 2012
It’s hot. There’s loud music in the air, carrying over the still waters of the faux lakes of Dubai Media City, and across the buildings. There’s the smell, nay, the aroma of food permeating through everything. Your mouth starts watering because you can smell food. Glorious food. My schedule this year was such I could…
Can you eat more than 70 dosas? Take up the challenge!
[2017 EDIT: This branch of Sukh Sagar is now closed] I was out with a few Fooderati members at Venus restaurant for our South Indian 101 event, and when talking about dosas, I remembered a place I’d been to months back and kept its photographs and blog posts on the back burner: Sukh Sagar at…
A frankie-turned-kathi-roll challenge…how could I refuse?
I wanted to check out a frankie place in Dubai to blog about (post on that coming soon). When I mentioned it to Vineet ‘Potson’ Pabreja, he scoffed. Oh, how much this man can scoff. He started waxing eloquent about this place in Bur Dubai which has the best rolls “EVAAAAAR”. So off we went…
Pizza and tiramisu in a rustic setting at Red Tomato Pizza
After living in the UK and having excellent Italian food there, and going to the US and gorging on Giordano’s deep dish pizza, I’ve developed a hankering to find good pizza and Italian food in the UAE. One night I had plans for an evening out, which got cancelled (curse you, O ditcher!), and I…
The One Where Food Bloggers Descended on Global Village
A Global Village trip just to eat through the different countries’ pavilions? HECK YEAH, SIGN ME UP NOW!!! The pomegranate juice Didi got from Tunisia. So I did. Sign up, that is. Note the bold, red font is there to express the excitement that coursed through me at the thought of a night of pure…
Mexican nights with Maria Bonita
“I know this awesome little Mexican place in Jumeirah,” my friend said. I was beyond exhausted after spending an entire day at ARTE and needed a place to chill out. She bundled me off to Maria Bonita. I’d seen this place before, but only when I’d popped in to the café next door (Central Perk,…
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