When you walk into Chinatown there are a lot of those well populated restaurants trying to pull you in with offers of unlimited buffets, but if you are smart or if you want something a little more real, then keep on walking until you get to the edge of the area and you will find…
The Pit Stop Café at Berwick Street Market – Fantastic Fried Rice and Malaysian Curry
The Pitstop Café Berwick Street Van was the street food vendor with the longest queue when we visited Berwick Street Market for lunch last week. To be fair, we walked up and down the street checking everyone else out, but we ended up walking back to the small white caravan surrounded by the hungry horde. There were many…
Lamb tagine with cinnamon- scented onions and tomatoes – Fine Cooking magazine
I have had this Tagine that my good friend Jean bought for me for ages and I kept on collecting tagine recipes, magazines, books, and print outs from t’internet to inspire me. How hard can it be? I think you just throw stuff in the pot, put the lid on, and then chuck it in the…
The Sitting Elephant Restaurant at Ganga View Hotel our ‘base camp’ in Rishikesh
Rishikesh is famous as the Yoga Capital of the World and a Hindu Pilgrimage town. It is located in the foothills of the Himalayas in northern India, apart from the Yoga the only other thing I knew about it before we arrived was that the Beatles came here back in the late 1960’s. I was expecting…
Cooking Carbonara – ‘Home Cooking with Ferran Adria’
This week I have been exploring the pages of my latest find, the excellent cook book “The Family Meal” by Ferran Adria of El Bulli Fame. The basic premise of the book is all about the meals that they cooked at El Bulli in between service for the staff to eat. This is known as…
Connaught Place in New Delhi is so Western they even have Dunkin Donuts!
On our last full day we went to Connaught Place in New Delhi which they say was modelled on the Royal Crescent in Bath England. It is a set of shops laid out around an inner and an outer circle all built in the Georgian style. If you can put to one side that…
The Perfectionist’s café – All Day Breakfast before the flight
The Perfectionists’ Café in Heathrow was apparently ‘Inspired by Heston Blumenthal’s In Search of Perfection TV series, in which he examined every aspect of our favourite dishes in order to make them as delicious as possible’. I liked the look of it as I meandered my way through Heathrow Terminal 2 looking for someone to sustain…
Food on the Indian Railway – a Tale of What they fed to us as we travelled from Haridwar to Delhi
Today we were to leave our Tour Party and make our own way back to Delhi by train. It was going to be an adventure and the first time in two weeks that we had been left all alone, and to our own devices. It was both liberating, exciting, and slightly daunting all at…
Vegetable Market in Rishikesh – Lots of great produce and a photo opportunity
We left our hotel looking for somewhere to get an evening meal but instead we found ourselves in the hustle and bustle of another typical Fruit and Vegetable market in India. It was bright, it was vibrant, and if I had my own kitchen and apartment I would have been down here every day…
Devraj Coffee Corner, A German Bakery listed by the Lonely Planet Guide in Rishikesh – Go for the View
Devraj Coffee Corner is a ‘German Bakery and Restaurant’ located right next to the crossing over the Ganges at the Lakshman Jhula suspension bridge Yesterday we had found a different ‘German bakery’ the Pumperickel Bakery. where I had eaten one of the most delightful vegetarian pizza’s that I have had for sometime. When we returned to…
