Owais Mughal
ATP is always searching for tips on good Pakistani food (see here), and as I have a long history with food experiments myself (see here). So here is my new discovery.
On our last trip to buy oriental grocery we were surprised beyond words to find ‘Tsingtao Curry Samosa‘ and ‘Paratha - which taste like [...]

Wasim Arif
azal se Adam-o-gandum meiN ae dost
ajab andaaz ki khat-pat rahi hai
barabar baRh raha hai narkh-i-gandum
bani Adam ki qeemat ghat rahi hai
The classic movie Roti starring the legendary Rajesh Khanna begins with his character Mangal stealing roti as a child from a restaurant to fill his empty stomach. This event transforms him for life because [...]

Owais Mughal
The festival of Eid is here. Eid celebrations are not complete without some sweet dishes around. There is a very famous sher about sewayiaN (sweet vermacelli) which I want to share. arz kia hai (here I go):
jaatay hi bazm meiN jo us ne uThaai sewayiaN
jab tak bethay rahay hum na jhukaai sewayiaN
Today we’ve [...]

Adil Najam
Bilal Zuberi’s wonderful post on Ramzan in Pakistan has inspired me to finally write about Rooh Afza - something I have been meaning to do for a while. Bilal’s post was made all the more poignant for me because I spent the first week of Ramzan in Pakistan. As Bilal mentioned, one of the [...]

Owais Mughal
I proudly own a copy of Hafeez Inayatullah’s famous book khaana pakaana (cooking meals). This book was frist published in 1987 with a circulation of 25000 and then that was it. It never got published again. That is why it is too precious to own a copy of it in 2007.
I had an [...]

Owais Mughal
Answer is US $220 million worth of it. Yes, it is true. Pakistan imported this much worth of tea in fiscal year 2006.