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Explore Through Food

You will find several absolutely stunning countries engulfed in the beauty of their surroundings and their people.​​ And like most places, there is no better way to understand the culture and people of the place than through the food they eat. It is one of the reasons why people choose to travel to exotic places and see the world, to embark on a journey through their taste buds as well. And food makes that possible. Don’t believe us? Shut your eyes for a second, maybe more. Let your mind travel immediately to the place you want to visit or have visited already. Now imagine that same place, through a bite of the most popular or your favourite dish from the local cuisine. It could be anything - chicken momos in Nepal, chhole bhature in Delhi or even hot dogs in California. Now, notice the smile on your face and the drool from your mouth? That’s what food does to someone, it opens up doors to entirely new cultures and lets you travel without even moving an inch. Food culture is as import...

The Current Trends in Street Food

Street food is the most straightforward path to learning about the place you’re in, its culture and its people. Every dish, every bite and every burst of flavour make you feel like a part of the place you’re visiting, through your taste buds. The street food phenomenon has been on the rise and has never stopped growing. One of the main reasons for its popularity and success was the convenience factor. Street food offers delicious and freshly cooked meals at much quicker rates, which makes the current course of ‘busy’ consumers is less inclined to eat pre-packed ready-made food in plastic. They’d rather just have hot dogs or momos ready to eat depending on where they’re from. The variation of choice just keeps expanding while meeting the new dietary requirements of the people, especially with options veganism. Street food is doing everything it can to adapt to all the changes in trend and keep growing into a worldwide culture. The 3 main current trends involve - Theatricality: The ma...

Delicious and Easy Homemade Snacks

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are enough to keep your mind and body working well, but getting hungry in between these meals is only normal. When you’re at office and working, chai breaks with colleagues are a common occurrence and a couple of biscuits, a samosa, or a vada pav at the tapri is a given with the tea. However, what happens when you’re working from home? Do you order something for your afternoon snack? Get on to a food delivery app, scroll through it only to order the same paneer momos or veg cheese grill? Eating the same thing for days can be boring and eating out consistently is not healthy either. Read on for a few quick, easy and delicious recipe ideas. To begin with, a club sandwich is always a good idea. Put together your favourite ingredients between two slices of bread and you’re ready to go. The complexity of this sandwich can depend on the amount of time you have at hand. If you’re looking for something gluten-free and protein-rich, chickpea flour chillas are a gre...

Best Treat with High Tea | Momos to Your Rescue

What does an evening snack look like in the monsoons? Tea and cookies? Tea and sandwiches? Chai and Pakora? Coffee and butter corn? A piping hot plate of Maggi? While all of these are sure to leave you salivating, they have gotten a little old. Change is the only constant and what’s life without new and delicious things to eat? Ever thought about treating yourself to a steaming hot plate of chicken momos while staring at the rain by the window? Oh, the feeling is divine. All this while you probably have been used to running down to your favourite street vendor and devouring a plate of momos, but with the pandemic, these vendors are nowhere to be seen. Does that mean we stop eating momos? Hell, no! Making them at home can be quite simple if you follow the right recipe. The preparation for this doesn’t need too much. All-purpose flour, oil, chicken, vegetables like onions, ginger, garlic, and celery, dark soy sauce, vinegar, and some spices and condiments should do the trick. Start with...

Momos That You Can Enjoy Guilt-Free

  Who doesn’t love a plate of momos – ones with a thin covering, a very succulent and juicy filling, and a deliciously hot tomato chili sauce as an accompaniment? While steam momos taste great, the pan-fried ones add more texture to the dish just like the deep-fried counterpart. Chicken momos are deemed as the reigning supremacy while other meat momos follow. When eaten while standing at the shack at the corner of your college’s lane, these taste even better. It’s around 5-6 PM in the evening, college just got over, the weather is getting cooler and you end up and the momo bhaiya and binge with your friends. Oh, what a perfect end to the day! But the question is, how healthy are these momos? Chicken momos on the street are often unhygienic as the meat is not cleaned well or of good quality. It can lead to people falling ill. Also, eating a plate of deep-fried meat momos with extra spicy chutney is not something you should do every day as it could lead to problems in the body. So...