A slice of Vietnamese food in Dubai

This is another one of those short PSAs: if you’re craving affordable Vietnamese food, try Hanoi in JLT. Pictured above is one of my favourite dishes, the summer rolls. Other favourites in a gallery below: I truly love the food for being fresh, and absolutely delicious. Special shout out to the iced coffee: it’s perfection…

A stroll in Italy thanks to Náis Italian Kitchen

Náis Italian Kitchen in JLT is potentially a new favourite for Italian food. When it is so easy to get bored with Italian cuisine with its staple pizza, pasta and tiramisu, Náis is a breath of fresh air. We walked in late – nearly 9pm. Exhausted from a long day’s work, all we wanted was…

Can ‘fast food’ be healthy? kCal says yes.

Healthy fast food? Things like that automatically make me sceptical. Can that even be possible? When I got an invite to check out kCal’s new branch at TECOM, I decided to go and see for myself. The menu is extensive – it has soups, salads, mains which include chicken, beef, fish and veggies, wraps, sandwiches,…

A Turkish fast food named Tantuni

[2017 EDIT: This restaurant is now closed, but I’m leaving this post up.] Tantuni is “a traditional Southern Turkey street food cuisine”, which comprises of “thinly diced beef cooked in a special way in our special pans with Turkish spices”, according to Cem Sungar, owner of the two-week old restaurant of the same name, nestled…

Cantonese food at Homey Chinese restaurant, JLT

It’s taken a while, but I’ve come to learn the difference between real Chinese food and Indian Chinese food, and boy, is there a world of difference! A real Chinese food joint opened up in JLT just over two months back, and I found myself there one afternoon, wondering what my tastebuds would find there….