Holi, a festival celebrated widely in India, marks the arrival of spring on the last full moon day of the Hindu lunar calendar.…
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Today's menu is Karuveppilai Eral (curry-leaves prawn) curry. It's the first recipe I marked and tried from the Curry Guy recipe book I bought recently after declaring to Fafa that cooking curries will be one of my 2022 goals. Prawn because it's my fave seafood, second to crab. And a curry dish from the…
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A little Google back home shed a bit more information on Nimbu Mirchi. As the shop owner said, it's usually hung in place of business to ward off the evil eye - kind of like Indian Feng Shui, if I may.…
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I can’t think of more soul-nourishing Indian cuisine than the classic thali meal ━ an interchangeable symbol of Indian food culture. Thali meal, the king of Indian food, is usually served as a wedding feast, during festivals and all sorts of celebrations, such as Onam and Diwali. A thali meal means a full plate…
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A scene I have seen in many South Indian movies but never got to experience myself — the true authentic South Indian hotel/eatery food culture.…
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During Hungry Ghost Months, humans do the age-old tradition of ancestor worshipping and hungry ghost appeasing as it’s believed that the spirit-world gate opens, and the ghosts return to the living world for a whole month.…
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I have enough quips about changing my surename for someone who wasn’t given any in the first place, but I am my name. It’s my root, as printed on my boarding pass. I want to be celebrated with that name. Before, now and forever.…
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After a 3-hour drive from Melbourne, going around almost four empty towns that reminded me of Timaru in New Zealand, we reached Echuca.…
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Kind of Hindu would make a perfect blog post (it's divided into two stories in the Kindle), but it is not something I'd pay $1.99 for.…
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I can’t believe it has been two years since I met Neera for the first time. She got my attention when she gave the guest speaker at a blogger conference a bag full of Tim Tams, the iconic Australian chocolate biscuit. I remember thinking that I need to befriend her before the conference is…
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