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Thai Papaya Salad Recipe – Also reminiscing the Floating Market in Global Village
This is our favourite Som Tam or the Thai Green Papaya Salad … it’s a very easy recipe to stir up. I tweaked the recipe a bit from a fridge magnet that I had collected on my Thailand trip. Every time we make it at home, the familiar sights and sounds from the trip comes alive. Travelling to places – far away or even as close as your neighbour’s house, seem to be a distant memory. So does tasting new cuisines at different restaurants or food events. Every day, I keep rearranging our collection of fridge magnets that hold so many beautiful memories of our travels – our family vacations…
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Songkran Splash At Westin and A Dinner At Sukhothai | Celebrating Festivals in Dubai – Episode 2
The last month was all about celebrating some festival or the other from some part of the world. This is the second of a series of posts on the different restaurants that I have visited over the month, participating in the celebration {First of the series… Nowruz Buffet At Ezi Dzi | Celebrating Festivals in Dubai – Episode 1}. Pardon me for the not-so-good pictures shot with my smartphone, in dimly lit but beautiful surroundings – my Nikon’s gone through a lot of rough use during my recent Thailand Academy trip. The Thailand trip was an entirely different experience – I was with a bunch of Emirati college students and without…
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Taste Of Dubai Menu Tasting At Thiptara | Part 1 Of My Gluttonous Double Munching!
If I have survived this DOUBLE munching to upload last night’s crumbled up Menu, it’s coz of sheer will power and my motto – ‘I SHALL SURVIVE TO EAT’! That had been my Facebook Page update after an evening of back-to-back menu-tasting of two restaurants in The Palace Downtown. I had the opportunity to take a sneak peep (and taste!) into the menu offered by two of their flagship restaurants – Thiptara and Asado, for the Taste of Dubai that is due to take place from 14-16th of March in the Dubai Media City Amphitheatre. Our first halt was the Thai restaurant in the The Palace Downtown – Thiptara. I…