[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…
Tag: Dubai
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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