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The Dragon Boat Festival @ Yauatcha | Bangalore

By now you would have known that Yauatacha is one of our most favourite places to visit! This time we had the privilege of tasting the festival menu, of the Dragon Boat festival.

Dragon Boat festival is traditionally a time to eat Zongzi, drink rice wine and race dragon boats and indulge in celebrations with family and friends. This festival dates back 2000 year!

The zongzi , pyramid shaped sticky rice dumplings, being the speciality of this festival made up 90 percent of the menu. This festival menu is a side menu and not complete by itself.

All of the sticky rice dumplings are steamed with lotus leaf wrapped around the pyramid/ squares of rice. The lotus leaf lends a beautiful aroma and subtle taste to the dumplings.

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Jackfruit 365 Breakfast meet up at Grand Mercure | Bangalore

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Breakfast food events are a rare occurrence, but when you go do go out in the morning to a food blogger’s meet up, you expect some good food. We recently went to the Jackfruit365 Meet up at Grand Mercure hotel, Bangalore and we were pleasantly surprised to see the breakfast spread and its core ingredient!

Jackfruit, the often ignored but superbly tasty fruit, was the core ingredients to dishes like dosa, pan cake, galouti kabab and more!

Jackfruits were present in all of these preparations in one way or the other. Jackfruit365 is company that aims to bring this ignored player in the middle ground by highlighting all of Jackfruit’s health benefits and environmental benefits. Jackfruit is a crop that can be grown easily in drought stricken areas and can help a lot of farmers if the demand of the same goes up!

Their product is raw jackfruit freeze dried and dehydrated, which can be powdered to be used with rice or flour in a 1:3 ratio. Rich in fibre and healthy nutrients this makes a great option for a substitute for the health conscious!

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Zzungry Take Two | BTM | Bangalore

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There are certain preparations which somehow satiate the inner hunger of super hungry individuals like us! Some people are easy to satisfy and they quickly get converted but there are some people who have a humongous appetite and if only the food wins their stomach (not their heart ;)), they get converted and of course a happily ever after scene.

By converted we mean they get regular cravings for such kind of food. Consequently it means good business for the restaurant as well. In this case we are talking about Zzungry, which we believe to be one of the best food delivering restaurants in Bangalore.

Their food is so well crafted and prepared that it is bound to make anyone feel the amount of effort put in to prepare them. Last time we tried some pretty spectacular dishes and this time we are back with more!

We tried a lot of things, so please be patient ;):

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New Menu @ Au Bon Pain | Bangalore

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There are a large number of cafes in Bangalore city and in all of India for that matter, out of which most of them have sprung up in the past 1-2 years.

We quite recently visited a renowned cafe, for trying out a few additions they made in their menu and most of these additions are definitely worth a try!

Without further ado, the cafe we visited is none other than Au Bon Pain, which is spread out all across the country now and because of their quality products they are very well known. This outlet is situated in CMH road, Bangalore and the locality has a lot of energy in the air.

Not much to mention about the ambiance because all the outlets have the same decor. The decor is quite classy though and not at all loud. Their staff is very courteous and to be honest the cleanliness of this store in particular is quite appealing.

Coming down to the new items: They have launched a few items called cone-wich, a chicken keema kouign-amann, banana walnut muffin, crème and mango custard Danish, raspberry crème croisbun, croi-mosa, a bagel poha sandwich, cinnamon buns and a few coolers for the summer.

We found the chicken keema preparation to be the best undoubtedly! It looks more like a quiche, but with a puffed head. The head is covered with herbs and a big bite with the herbs and the spicy keema tasted phenomenal! It is quite spongy as well, but slightly oily.

The croi-mosa was very interesting. It is basically a fusion of a croissant and a samosa and they really did a good job! The stuffing was very fragrant, balanced and tasty. The whole thing looks sort of like a croissant but has a crunch like a samosa.

The cone-wich has many variants: one chicken, a mushroom and eggplant and a tandoori paneer variant. We tried the last one and it was a different experience to be honest. The item is served in a cup and the advantage of this cone design is that the stuffing runs deep and you get the real deal till the end. Taste wise, it was a bit too tangy for comfort. It was pretty overpowering and the taste of the paneer was masked. The sweet corns were a good addition though.

The banana walnut muffin was fantastic! It was soft and spongy with the essence of banana throughout and few chunks of walnut deep within. We really liked this one and this is highly recommended.

Both the Danish were pretty similar except for the layers on top. They were flat shaped and very spongy. We liked the crème custard one more as its flavour was more distinguishable.

The raspberry croisbun was a decent addition but it could have been made better. The raspberry jam on top was the only flavour you will get while biting through. If they added something more inside it could have tasted better. The cinnamon buns were small but packed a punch. The sweetness was well balanced and the flavour was not overpowering.

The poha bagel combo was kind of funny but taste wise quite impressive. The presentation was very good and on top of that, the poha was very flavoursome. The bagels were thin, crunchy and had a cheese coating.

Now for the main attraction in the summers: the coolers! They introduced many variants including the banana yoghurt cooler and the papaya orange cooler.