“Sujir” keeps autocorrecting to Sugar, which makes me laugh because it could easily have been called Sugar Halua, it’s the other half of the ingredients. Suji (Semolina), Sugar, Water are the main ingredients, a little bit of ghee/oil, cinnamon (ground and/or sticks), cardamom, cloves optional, but nice. Oxford Languages definition of “Halwa” is “a sweet… Continue reading Sujir Halua (Halwa of Semolina)
Jhal muri is one of the most common street snacks around Dhaka and Kolkata. I have had it on the road side, especially in the university areas and on the trains from Kolkata to Santiniketan. It is really easy to put together with almost anything that you have at home. The street vendors usually go… Continue reading Jhal Muri & Lebur Shorbot (Mixed Puffed Rice & Lime-aid)
Dhaka Bangkok Kolkata Kasauli via Chandigarh & Delhi
I started 2019 on a rooftop in Dhaka: A lot of quality time with family. Got to spend time with grandparents without any other cousins around, and some time with Father in Kolkata and Ma in Dhaka. Dhaka The top places this time in Dhaka were Butlers (which I later discovered while in Ireland in… Continue reading Dhaka & Kolkata – Jan 2019
The month before this trip, I started working as a Bengali interpreter in the UK. A large number of British-Bangladeshis are from Sylhet. Sylhetis are probably the earliest migrants from Bangladesh, the first records of arrivals from Sylhet are in 1873, as cooks in the employment of the East India Company. Sylheti is the language… Continue reading Sylhet, Summer 2014
During the summer of 2008, we visited my father for two and a half months while he was living and working in Budapest, Hungary. It was the summer before we moved back to New York (something we found out at the beginning of the vacation itself), and we knew that we would probably not have… Continue reading Eurotrip (Summer) 2008
The Spill Queen 