Anda Pulao. Jholokia hot sauce. I love eating out of bowls, pho, ramen, gumbo, haleem, I think most of the greatest meals of my life were from out of a bowl. Ugh, I do not know where I can start explaining the provenance of this beautiful vessel of eating. Its so good people started eating burritos out a bowl A lot of these meals were eaten in at the end of shift in Hyderabad, sitting on a milk can after spooning in some basmati rice and a ton of whatever chicken curry was made for the buffet, malai tikkas, sometimes that delicious malabari style poached egg curry that was made every Thursday. All of it in its own section of the bowl mildly warm over steaming hot rice, a spoon which I later subsequently carried out from the hotel on accident. Wish I could take those delicious mixing bowls too. But here I am talking about the daily experience of things, Now I could sit on the couch while watching a movie and eat out of it slumped into a rest, cradling the bowl in your hand like a little baby, the low slung centre gravity keeps its very stable. The high edges keeps anything from falling out. The best experience is when you have a lot of elements to play around with. Imagine a layer of rice, fried rice, grits, polenta, congee, noodles, that covers the entirety of bottom and a central curry, or sauce or two or three and various accoutrements ranging from fried chicken, slices of steak, scallops. Perhaps a pickle, chutney? Something for the crunch, freshness too. Onions, bombay mix, that spicy asafoetida rich ratlami sev. All of it lined at their respective boundaries in this colosseum of textures and smells you are ready to dive in…. More in September 2021 Issue . . . . . . #mealinabowl #andapulao #grits #donburi #hotsauce #foodwriting #foodessay #foodjournalism #foodjournal #journalismstudent #personalessay #foodforthought #news #nyfood #eaterla (at Baton Rouge, Louisiana) https://www.instagram.com/p/CShEN0DKtPd/?utm_medium=tumblr
