Fusion food is innovative, fun and different. Like this Japanese Mexican fusion of tacos. By Takumi Tacos at Smorgasburg in Brooklyn, these tacos were filled with: Charred corn 🌽 Cilantro Edamame Shishito pepper Avocado Cabbage Thai basil Miso vinaigrette A lot of stuff in 1 taco but the flavors were fun!

At Ziya, Michelin starred chef Vineet Bhatia has taken the the simple Delhi chaat and given it an innovative international spin to make it contemporary. In fact he took the same idea to different street foods and it works surprisingly well (follow up post). To me this is genius, simply because you can preserve the…

Last minute travel changes are often frustrating, booking hotels, changing flights etc. etc. On one such occasion me and my colleague drove from Concord to Boston to stay the night and fly first thing next morning. The challenge, finding a place to eat. While foursquare had gone to shit, Yelp still works. PS: Yes, the…

Fried food is usually good for the taste buds. While at the Broadway bites street food fair we came across a Brazilian stand that had a bar of cheese and another bar of something over what looked like a fried empanada. The other bar was thick guava jelly. Essentially a fried empanada with cheese and…

Pineapple fried rice are my go to entree at Thai restaurants, the curries are not my thing; too watery, with veggies that I don’t like. Anyhow, Thai Basil in Carson City served me pineapple rice in a pineapple, topped with cashew. They were pineapple rice like any other Thai restaurant, but the presentation was amazing.

The number of times I’ve been told that brunch for/with vegetarians is a complicated affair, I’ve always laughed it off as ignorance. So far brunch has worked out just fine for me. At Jack’s Wife Freda, it was better than fine. Pictured below is their Mashed Avocado on Seeded Bread with cherry tomatoes, pickled carrots…

At a street fair in New York, my friend found these simple potato-fries-on-a-skewer. These are made fresh to order, very thinly sliced potatoes through some ingenious contraption that cuts an entire potato into a continuous Lays shape. The deep fried skewer is soft and slightly oily, sprinkled with a lot of salt, these juicy slices…

Less interesting than they sound. Discovered at smorgasbor in Brooklyn, the concept sounded great, and for some reason I wanted to try these in a hard shell taco. Unfortunately these were only available in soft shell. Not holding anything against the folks who went ahead with the idea, these tacos were no different than a…

If you’re from north India you know poori (fried circular bread 🍞) aloo (potato 🍠). This particular empanada tasted quite like it. Slightly gravied potatoes inside a thin fried empanada reminded me of India. Not only did I have 2 the same day, I went to the same stall the following weekend as well.

At Broadway bites, my friend wanted to have some tacos and so we looked around for whatever was the most different type of taco available. This Californian Pizza Taco stood out; the display version had feta cheese on it which swayed me but what we got didn’t have any. None the less, the mangoes and…