The hustle and bustle of street markets hold a special charm of its own. Monik Chawla in Ahmedabad, India is no different. Stalls outside the gate sell everything, from plastic buckets to shiny party decorations to brown basmati rice. Inside the gate is even busier – people, autorickshaws, and scooters rushing to go somewhere. This [...]
Due to high demand, I actually went into the McDonald’s here. I haven’t eaten at one in almost a year (last time didn’t end up too well), even though I love their fries. This was one happy day. Happy Meal it was. The McDonald’s was super nice and clean with upbeat funky dance music playing. [...]
As many of you know, India is full of contradictions. One of the biggest and most obvious points of contrast is the wide gap between rich and poor. It is not just a bit rich and a bit poor – it is like having the fancy Le Meridian hotel where meals cost as much as [...]
If you haven’t guessed, I’m in India right now and will be here for a while. It is in a word: HOT. Summers in India is like being in a permanent sauna. No matter how much sunblock, I get burned. I’m in Ahmedabad, on the eastern part of India in the state of Gujarat. It’s [...]
Born in exile in India, I had the opportunity to embrace my Tibetan food heritage (which at times was challenging as most Tibetan recipes are meat based hearty soup to weather the cold climate of Tibet and not for a vegetarian like me living in sub-tropical India) and India’s diverse and rich cuisine. As I [...]
