[2017 EDIT: I’ve been given to understand this restuarant is now closed] Accepting invites to dine at restaurants has become a double-edged sword. It’s refreshing to see owners and PRs have realised the food blogging community is important and has its own following, but sometimes the obligation to blog, and not just blog, but…
An epic three-hour lunch at Sino Chai, Dubai
[EDIT: This restaurant is now open under the guise of ‘Taipei Dao’ in Downtown Dubai; a lot of the menu items are the same, and is of the same quality] A DM popped up in my Twitter client, asking if I’d like to visit Sino Chai for a blogger’s lunch. Does it rain in the…
Cupcakes worth their weight in gold at Bloomsbury’s
I found Shafeena through the wonderful group of food bloggers in the UAE – Fooderati Arabia. One day, over a year ago, I saw pictures of her cupcake store, Bloomsbury’s, based in Abu Dhabi. It intrigued me, and as a reporter on the B2B title, Commercial Interior Design, I saw potential for a feature. And…
I got drenched & nearly stood up…but the rogan gosht made up for it
Note: this post has been slowly marinating in the drafts section, waiting to see light of day, for two months. Yup, that’s how far behind my posts are. The memories might be sketchy, but my feelings for the place stay true. I met Rohit three days before this food jaunt. As I said in the…
Dim Sum-ing it at Da Shi Dai
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,…
Kati rolls so good I ate them for lunch. And dinner. On the same day.
“Do you like kati rolls?” asked my new-found foodie friend Rohit.“Yeah I recently discovered them in Dubai and really liked them!” I said, enthusiastically. And so he put me on a path that saw me scarfing down kati rolls for lunch, and dinner… on the same day. I met Rohit on Twitter, as one does….
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….
Autism and restaurants – my first experience with discrimination
I can’t remember how old I was. I think I was 13 or 14. So it wasn’t very long after Karan received his autism diagnosis. The semblance of “normal life” was slowly slipping away from our family. We’d stopped doing random things we used to do together. Gone were trips to the cinema, gone were…
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…
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