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Eating with your hands isn’t a sign of poor upbringing in an Indian table, but there are certainly wrong ways to eat with your hands! yg gives us a quick primer on how to enjoy Indian food the correct way.
and if you eat off a banana leaf, which is usually the case in an indian restaurant, there are certain things you have to bear in mind. when you have had your fill, you should fold the banana leaf to indicate that you do not want any more helpings.
Find out more about hand-dining in ygblog.
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These days, where can we still cook with charcoal? For most of us, our only encounter cooking with charcoal would come from grilling meat and vegetables over a charcoal grill at outdoor party gatherings and open-air pits. Otherwise, gas and induction stoves have taken over our indoor cooking requirements, but these technologies are relatively new. [...]
“iremember goes to Toa Payoh” is the first of a series of outreach initiatives to the heartlands island-wide. At this carnival we will be premiering two local short films by Singapore film-makers Tan Pin Pin and Wee Li Lin. They were commissioned as part of the Singapore Memory Singapore’s efforts to showcase memories via [...]
Yusheng, the raw fish and vegetable salad associated with the Chinese New Year was in the news here, and in Malaysia recently because of yet-another-argument over where which food originated from. Seeking to disentangle myth from fact, food blogger Leslie Tay attempts to trace the history of the dish we know as yusheng today. In [...]
The Gastronaut features another family business in Singapore, Tong Heng Chinese Pastries in Chinatown, which is most famous for its egg tarts. Gastronaut recounts a little of the business’ history, which is now around 90 years old: Tong Heng had its beginnings on Keppel Road in the 1920s, where its founder was one among many [...]
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I was told by one Indian friend to wrap the leaf from right to left(or left to right?) to express my satisfaction of the meal. She said that if I wrapped from left to right(or right to left?), it meant I didn’t enjoy the meal.
As a Cantonese Chinese, problem of eating with hands is, the food is too hot for my hand and I always forget to use only right hand not left hand or both hands;and most of Indian food are just too hot and spicy for me.
I do love some of the Indian dishes tho, especially some veg and fish dishes.
Posted on April 18th, 2008 at 7:46 am
just too hot and spicy for me. I do love some of the Indian dishes tho, especially some veg and fish dishes.
Posted on December 16th, 2010 at 4:40 pm
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