by Anindya | Oct 24, 2017 | Food, Foodblog |
How did we first taste Shapla Chingri? It will not be exaggerating to say that this is the invention of the season at our dinner table. The fact that water lilly stem could be used for a recipe and that too with small shrimps, was unimaginable. My mother in law first...
by Anindya | Oct 19, 2017 | Food, Foodblog |
Scene 1 take 1 – the first day It almost became a competition between the father and the son. The greedy son of a clandestine greedy father (my known ones would refuse that). When the first batch of Jibe Goja was made, I was excited but since there hasn’t...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Oct 12, 2017 | Food, Foodblog |
There are times when you don’t feel like doing anything. You just want to be in a state of limbo. Binge-watch everything that you have missed out on TV and Netflix. Or eat whatever junk comes your way. And in general, enjoy the status of doing nothing except for...
by Anindya | Oct 9, 2017 | Hong Kong, Travel, Travelogues |
I had 2 hours to spend at Tai O Village – a Small village at Lantau Island. By then I had already done an excellent cable car ride and a guided tour of the Ngong Ping village started with our guide Julie. After the tea tasting session with the ever refreshing...
by Anindya | Oct 7, 2017 | Food, Foodblog |
Fried rice and its popularity in Kolkata, especially amongst Bengalis Is fried rice one of the most popular rice dishes in the world? If I would have been asked to pass on a verdict, then I would say yes without blinking an eye lid. A simple fried rice with optimum...
by Anindya | Oct 2, 2017 | Eating Out, Food, Foodblog |
Anindya writes – This is the first ever guest post in pikturenama and since the time my good friend and extremely talented Dipali Bhasin had visited this cafe in Bhimtal, I had requested her to write about this cafe. Dipali is a writer par excellence and a great...
by Anindya | Sep 28, 2017 | Food, Foodblog |
It was our best friend Sakshi’s birthday and with the new princess Sifat (the daughter of Saskhi and Dipjoy) around, we were happy and excited about the party. Tugga came with us tantrum free (he says he hates girls and we joke about what he would say when he...
by Anindya | Sep 26, 2017 | Hong Kong, Travel, Travelogues |
No matter what you do, please come back in one piece – that’s what my wife said when I was planning my Hong Kong trip. A week before; the typhoon had hit Hong Kong and my trip had to be deferred. An absolutely new city, no guide and I was to explore the...
by Anindya | Sep 23, 2017 | Hong Kong, Travel, Travelogues |
One of my biggest weakness is directions and leave aside an unknown place, I lose my way in Kolkata many a times. There is a certain brain conditioning which holds me back from understanding and navigate through roads. I was visiting HongKong for the first time and...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Sep 12, 2017 | Eating Out, Food, Foodblog, Uncategorized |
It was towards the end of 2008. We were going to have a baby for the first time and our excitement saw no end. As days went by, everything changed for us. The baby was not growing as per the rate it should have. Our first double marker test came as high risk in all...