Our Saturday night was well planned – watch a play and have seafood for dinner. So it started with an English play ‘By George’, directed by Naseerudin Shah at Prithvi Theatre, followed by dinner at the very popular restaurant called Something’s Fishy, a part of Hotel Tunga International at Andheri East, Mumbai. What we didn’t know, that our well planned Saturday night would turn out to be so [More...]
This is one place I am glad has several branches in Mumbai, one in Singapore and the other in Mangalore. I have visited Gajalee in Mumbai (the Andheri East branch) and in Mangalore and I am a huge fan of the restaurant. Had I known they had a branch in Singapore, I would have surely made a beeline for a good meal there during my trip to Singapore last [More...]
If you ask a Bengali what the word ‘Fish’ means to him, his eyes will light up through his glasses and his mouth will start watering instantly and you would have got an answer; well in most cases. In Bengali cuisine, fish – especially Rohu and Catla, and of course the Ilish during special occasions, are cooked in several styles – with mustard seed paste , onion seeds, curd or milk – but all cooked in Mustard Oil, because that’s what [More...]
