Category: Live to Eat
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Fruity Farookh opens a restaurant
After I won entrepreneur of the month award, Mangoville State Bank offered me a loan to start a restaurant, even when I didn’t ask for one. They said “take it, we don’t even open accounts for anyone until they perform 108 surya namaskars in front of us and here we are at your doorstep with…
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Growing up by eating out
My earliest childhood memories of eating out without parents is that of eating Samosas at Chandu Sweets. To be specific, eating two Samosas with two types of chutneys at Chandu Sweets, which was a nondescript, blink-and-you-miss hole in the wall about 10 minutes walk from my house. An open gutter flowed alongside the shop (to…
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The rustic art of eating Golgappas
Mishra ji is going around telling everyone that it was he who posted about the perfect samosa and paani-puri and got billions of likes. What a liar. It was I who described the experience, and just because he can blog, he posted it on his page. First he doesn’t pay me for all the work…
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The subtle art of eating Roshogulla / Rasgulla
My earlier posts on the perfect ‘Paani Puri’ and perfect ‘Samosa’ gathered 12 billion likes. Of these, Norwegians and Jamaicans accounted for 3 billion likes. Truly humbled by the support and flattered that such a diverse set of people appreciate paani puri. Mysterious Admin is hell bent on convincing me that there must be something…
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Ramzan street food cravings and FOMO
Humans should have an option of adding a detachable stomach. With so much there to eat it is simply not possible with one digestive system. And since it is very difficult and impractical to replicate the entire digestive system, I think a detachable stomach is a good start. Imagine that your body has a binge…
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Aunty Opinion interviews a Mumbaikar
Today we meet Malyaj Kaloni. He is a nobody. He was just eating a butter masala dosa at an Udupi restaurant. I grabbed him by the collar to give me this interview. Aunty: Hello Malyaj. You seem to like butter masala dosa a lot Malyaj: How do you know it was butter masala dosa and…
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A visit to the grocer turned sour
Do you have free range cow milk? Nothing in this shop is free sir No I mean milk of cows who roam around freely All my cows are always roaming around freely on the road. Look, one is sitting at the traffic signal right now. Ok, but free range cows are supposed to be happy.…
