Adrianna Tan
Biryani is one of my all time fave foods. I tend to prefer the southern styles which isn’t easily available outside of south India.
Which is why Kolapasi’s Vijayawada style biryani really hits the spot for me.
Other faves in the Bay Area: Dindigul Thalappakatti (Milpitas), Appakadai (Sunnyvale and Dublin)
Adrianna Tan
I find many of the northern styles of biryani to be very good technically, but also 1/10th the flavor in terms of spices. If I’m not feeling the warmth of a ton of pepper and cloves riding through my biryani while I eat it, I’m most likely not wanting to eat it
Adrianna Tan
@farah wayyyy spicier than Hyderabad style hehe
Farah 🏳️🌈🖖🏼
@skinnylatte I wonder what’s the difference between Hyderabadi and southern style. Hyderabadi biryani tastes off to me cause we are accustomed to Lucknowi style, which is less spicy
Adrianna Tan
Farah 🏳️🌈🖖🏼
@skinnylatte 🥵 eek! Yeah I cannot do spicy food
Adrianna Tan
@farah it has survived dysentery in Bangladesh and Burma, it can survive anything
Farah 🏳️🌈🖖🏼
@skinnylatte Someone should study your digestive system for science 😅😂
Adrianna Tan
@farah well Tamil style biryani has that much spice and then a spicy curry to eat it with as well so I really like that
Farah 🏳️🌈🖖🏼
@skinnylatte Girl, if you want that much spice in your biryani, you want curry not biryani!! To us, in Bangladesh, biryani is by default is a less spicier dish than traditional curries and such. Btw have you ever had Tehari? Traditionally cooked with mustard oil, it has a zing that’s unbelievably delicious
Adrianna Tan
@bruce @farah part of what cured me was so that I can get back to eating amazing spicy food later so I don’t think I would survive the Oregon trail
Bruce Heerssen
But can it survive dysentery on the Oregon Trail?
Adrianna Tan
@farah I’ve been 5 times since 2004
Dhaka each time of course and last time I was in Dhaka I met some photographers who had been involved in documenting the horrific garment factory thing. They had a photography school
I was also in Chittagong and Sirajgunj and a few other places like that
Farah 🏳️🌈🖖🏼
@skinnylatte lol
When did you travel to Bangladesh? And what was your favorite? Or not??
Adrianna Tan
@SVChucko yep
Chuck Fry 🏳️🌈
@skinnylatte Is that Aappakadai, with two As?
Adrianna Tan
@jaym I’ve been to Chennai every year since 2004? Except the last 6
Maybe sometimes 4 times a year to Chennai, sometimes it was 5 days, sometimes it was 5 weeks, sometimes 3 months, so I guess if you add up all of it, quite a lot
I also drove a rickshaw around it https://rickrollshaw.tumblr.com
Jay
Just how much time did you spend in that part of the country!? Even my storied knowledge suggests this was at least 1-3 years :o
Adrianna Tan
@farah I love all Bengali food
Adrianna Tan
@farah I went there to do an internship of some sort with Grameen, way back, but it was mostly taking photos and writing case studies for them. The professor who changed my life in college in Singapore was from Bangladesh (an economist at the Asian Development Bank). Many of my friends were from Dhaka originally, so it never felt that foreign to me. I listen to Hemanto Mukhopadhay and think of ‘the good old days’ :)
Farah 🏳️🌈🖖🏼
@skinnylatte Woah! Cool!!
I grew in Dhaka. Interestingly my partner’s family is from Sirajganj. I talk about you a lot at home, so imma tell him about this 😅
Adrianna Tan
@farah used to be much more conversational but now just food ordering level
Farah 🏳️🌈🖖🏼
@skinnylatte Wait do you speak Bangla? Cos it feels like it’d be a piece of cake to you
Adrianna Tan
@consumablejoy yep. Their dosas are the best in the city to me especially the curry leaf and podi one (last item on the menu)
consumableJoy
@skinnylatte Is this the kolapasi at 19th and Lexington?
Adrianna Tan
@jaym it me
Jay
@skinnylatte That explains it.
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