Blog categorized as India

In East Asian cooking, the highest compliment a dessert can receive, is that it is "not too sweet". I subscribe to this philosophy as well, and prefer subtler sweets like Rosogolla and Puranpoli over cloyingly sweet Gulab Jamuns or Mysore Paks. But I have finally found a Mysore Pak I can enjoy.

I wanted to watch a Theyyam performance, and not one that happens on a stage in a closed hall, but one in its natural environment. It's a bit difficult to come across information about it, but there's a method. Here's what I did.

Culturally Adventurous is a series of recollections from my travels, where I have chanced upon something totally normal in that place, but something a visitor often misses while going for the things with better PR.