Food

The products imported from National Foods of Karachi (NFK) by Quantum Foods of Panipat in Haryana have become a craze with Kashmiris for their high quality. The products from the neighbouring country are already flooding the markets here and are much in demand. Several shopkeepers across the Kashmir Valley were doing brisk business selling Pakistani [...]

A small study out of Pakistan found extracts of cloves might be beneficial to people with type 2 diabetes. Researchers say the benefits lasted at least 10 days after the patients stopped taking the cloves. Patients who took the equivalent of one to two cloves a day for a month saw improvements in insulin function, [...]

Lahore, the cultural, intellectual and artistic capital of Pakistan, enjoys two very special distinctions. It is reputed to be home to the best-looking women in the subcontinent and the other is its gourmet hub, albeit for carnivores in the main. There is a wide array of non-vegetarian dishes to sample – kadais, sajjis, botis, biryanis, [...]

Longan looks like lychee, is much sweeter and yields twice as much as the best lychee tree. Its fruit is smaller than lychee, and has brown smooth skin and therefore is called ‘Little Brother of Lychee’. It is very popular in South-East Asia where from large quantities are exported to Europe and so why shouldn’t [...]

Welcome to Karachi’s Little Hyderabad, where the faithful come for a hearty Iftar and are induced to stay on for dinner. “For many years we have been coming here for Iftar and dinner,” remarked Dr Ali whose family was sitting in his car. From Hyderabadi Dahi Bare to Samosa or what they call Luqmian, you [...]

One of Huddersfield’s newest restaurants, Saim’s, is rapidly becoming a local favourite with those who like to eat out. Abdul, who is rightly proud of his newly created restaurant, describes the cuisine as authentic home cooking influenced by the region of North Pakistan. Abdul, who converted the former shop in Bradford Road into a restaurant [...]

But at Overland Park’s three-month-old Kababesh Grill in the Highland Plaza shopping strip, the cuisines of Pakistan and India coexist happily on the same menu. There aren’t a lot of Pakistani dishes, says co-owner Joe Hemayoun, a native of Lahore, Pakistan (as is his partner and chef, Zubir Sheh). But the handful of regional dishes [...]

Now a visitor will have to be prepared to endure a permanent sound of kat-a-kat, kat-a-kat, kat-a-kat and chip-chop chip-chop. People come here to have delicious Biryani and Haleem, and also get their share of chicken and lamb rotating on radiant skewers. Most shopkeepers of Burns Road are happy and hope for brighter business prospects. [...]

After eating a bowl of warm papri chaat and admiring gold bracelets, Mirza said she understood why her elders often told her about how Pakistan fought to gain its independence more than half a century ago. Mirza and her mother, Neelum Mirza, said they were waiting to hear Abrar-ul-Haq, a famous Pakistani singer and crowd [...]

Food, not ambience, is the focus at Lasani, though there are red kilims — traditional woven rugs on the walls, and a few pieces of handicraft decorating the place. Jilani, a graduate in business management from the University of Los Angeles in the US, intends to provide ‘quality Mughlai food, superb taste and good service’. [...]