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Tom Yum cocktail with udon? OKO’s Oriental Express lunch menu derails

If your ‘Pan-Asian’ ambitions begin and end with dumplings and Thai green curry, perhaps it is better you don’t overpromise and then underdeliver.

Indian restaurant in Dubai offers 75% off if you bring wife and girlfriends together

Anna’s serves ‘South Indian flavours by day’ and a multicuisine menu by night. Located at the Barcelo Hotel in Al Jaddaf, Dubai, the restaurant has rolled out a weekday promotion.

How basic Bengali food became a premium experience at Sienna

At this Kolkata restaurant, home flavours, forgotten traditions and hyperlocal sourcing meet a new, paying audience.

Thecha paneer to pasta—Malaika Arora brings flavours from her home to Scarlett House

Several of Malaika’s own go-to dishes have found a place on the menu at Scarlett House, including thecha paneer.

Kashmir embraced a Turkish TV show. Wazwan still set the limits for food

A Turkish wave reshaped the Valley's cultural image as Diriliş: Ertuğrul influenced eateries and wardrobe. But Kashmiris drew the line at food.

MSG is misunderstood. It brings out the fifth basic taste in foods

The stigma around MSG began in 1968, when a doctor published a letter in The New England Journal of Medicine, complaining of weakness, numbness, and racing heart after having Chinese food.

Another viral video shows Pakistani elite culture’s problems with restaurant staff

Pakistan’s elite have made the headlines yet again after a 'human rights activist' lashed out at the chef of a Karachi-based restaurant.

Would you eat indoors at a restaurant? We asked 5 health experts

Four said no – and one had a surprising answer.

Delhi’s The Big Chill celebrates 20 yrs and owes it all to a love story that began in Rwanda

Multiple outlets and a pandemic later, The Big Chill restaurant chain is as homey and familiar as ever, which is why it has survived, say the owners.

Americans are rallying behind their Chinese restaurants after early Covid backlash

Awareness campaigns have encouraged Americans to support their local Asian restaurants. But many owners say the decision to close was due to in-house safety concerns.

On Camera

Iran can survive the war. But the cost of survival is changing

While the US military campaign couldn’t fetch strategic outcomes, the IRGC’s capacity to disrupt does not mean that Iran has escaped tne cumulative cost either.

Indian govt bets on battery storage boom to help abate mounting solar power losses

India’s transmission system failed to absorb more than 8 billion kilowatt-hours of power in April to June, when 63 billion actually reached the system.

India, Japan look at joint naval shipbuilding, technology transfer with pact to deepen defence ties

Maritime security agreement opens avenues for joint development of naval ships and design, greater use of Indian shipbuilding and repair facilities by Japan.

Gen Vaidya won 2 Maha Vir Chakras, fell to assassins’ bullets 40 yrs ago. India forgot a great soldier

Forty years ago this week, ‘Khalistan Commando Force’ assassins were closing in on Gen Vaidya. So callous was the security of the just-retired Army chief that he was given a solitary police gunman