Author Archives: Siddhartha

My Assamese Food 101 – Restaurant Hopping in Guwahati

Considering that overwhelming majority of restaurants in Guwahati are nan-roti-paneer variety, sticking to Assamese food is not an easy task. But help was on hand. From Sneha Lata, Sharmin and Sonny Rao who responded to my SOS on Facebook. With their help my shortlist was ready – Delicacy in Ganeshguri, Khorika and Maihang near Bora [...]

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Among cheese lovers in Switzerland

In one of few positives of internet in our lives, I became friends with Peter through an interaction on www.tripadvisor.com . Since he was one of the tripadvisor experts on Swtizerland, I asked him for tips on visiting a cheese dairy. Like an angel in the guise of his login id, he suggested why don’t [...]

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The right way to have tea – An Evening with a Tea Taster

I love tea. With milk and sugar, and so much ginger that your throat would shout out for Burnol.  Though I am against tea bags but accept it if it is put to boil along with milk and sugar, and of course, ginger. So you can consider me a tea philistine. With this background I [...]

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The Perfect Peking Duck

I have been a longtime fan of the Peking duck, but have only tried it at generic Chinese restaurants in New York and London. So when my hosts in Shanghai, Manmeet and Mio, proposed that we try out what is probably the best ‘Beijing Duck’ (well that’s how they referred to it) restaurant in town, I [...]

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Flavours of Winter – Reliving My Childhood

Returning to my home state after seventeen years, which is almost half my life, I decided to overindulge in things that I had missed for all these years. As far as food was concerned, it meant eating vegetables which we always associated with a season. We always had lady’s fingers, lauki (bottle gourd), parwal, turai [...]

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