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Dhaba in Bangkok

By debasishroy • Aug 25th, 2008 • Category: Reviews

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The tourist district in Bangkok is well removed from the residential district. In fact, the residential area is just like any other deserted street in New Delhi [...]



Simple, Sweet, Scrumptious – The Coconut Panna Cotta!

By kishi • Jul 28th, 2008 • Category: Recipes

Every so often I wonder if I wasn’t a pastry chef would I be working in the corporate world sitting staring at the computer and look at the prices of shares go up and down? But right now am apprehensive – shall I add more sugar to my dessert, or not?
I have a photo shoot [...]



Baby Dragon, Sector 18, NOIDA

By Sid • May 1st, 2008 • Category: Reviews

Bumping into Nishant and Prashant, Culinary Entrepreneurs at large, we thought of having dinner together. Always ready to try new (and sometimes risky) restaurants, we decided to check out Baby Dragon.
Baby Dragon! The name has kept me away in the past for some reason and as it turned out, I was right to stay in [...]



Fragrant Coconut Rice

By Sid • Jan 25th, 2008 • Category: Recipes

Here’s Naheed’s first contribution – Fragrant coconut rice.
This is a lemon grass and cardamom flavored coconut rice, very different from the south Indian variety. You’ll need to boil cardamom, bay leaf, nut meg, bruised lemon grass, and cinnamon in adequate water along with a cup of coconut milk. Add an adequate quantity of pre washed [...]



Thai Coconut Milk Soup

By Sid • Nov 27th, 2007 • Category: Recipes

This amazingly simple soup is nutritious and you can make it even more so by adding more vegetables. The base of the flavor is in the two key ingredients – galangal and lemon grass. Based on coconut milk, it can be a full meal in itself – just add noodles or serve on a bed [...]



Review: Oriental Octopus

By Sid • Jul 27th, 2007 • Category: Reviews

Naheed and I popped over for a quick lunch to the Oriental Octopus, Sector 16, NOIDA. Its in the Savoy Suites, which is connected to McDonalds (structurally).
We started with a Tom Kha soup, which was subtly flavored with ginger, lemon grass and green chilli. Nice. Next in line were dim sums, stuffed with black mushrooms [...]