Deep Fried

We explore some biryani variants that we've enjoyed in Dubai with our our Eating Designer Mufaddal Husein and our food tour guide Tanya Rehman.

Grab the list of all the restaurants mentioned and a few more to try on our blog here. 

Corrections: Beriani Isfahani is made with lamb (not goat meat) and the lungs on the side are black once cooked. Arva's memory hasn't served her too well 6 years after her trip to Isfahan! 

Instagram handles: Frying Pan Adventures (@fryingpanadventures), Mufaddal Husein (@mufaddal.husein) and Tanya Rehman (@tanya18r). 

From blind dates to double dates, we share our favourite spots for date night in Dubai with our Frying Pan Adventures' food tour guides: Farida Ahmed, Nahla Tabbaa, Tanya Rehman and Noorin Ansari.

Visit our blog for a list of all the restaurant details mentioned in our podcast.

Instagram handles: Frying Pan Adventures (@fryingpanadventures), Farida (@faridaa), Noorin (@noogoopoo), Tanya Rehman (@tanya18r), Nahla (@nahlatabaa).

We shine a light on 4 Syrian dishes that the rest of the world has to try with Nahla Tabbaa and Omayah Atassi.

Grab the list of all the dishes described and the restaurants mentioned on our blog here. 

And if you'd like to watch the YouTube video by the entertaining Syrian home chef that Nahla mentioned on the show (it's in Arabic), click here.

Nahla Tabbaa is a Jordanian-Bangladeshi artist, curator and food tour guide with Frying Pan Adventures.

Omayah Atassi is a Syrian-American food and architecture photographer and writer. She blogs at Omayah Cooks and launched a doughnut concept called D'omes Donuts.

Instagram handles: Nahla Tabbaa (@thefinelychopped), Omayah Atassi (@omayah.atassi) and Frying Pan Adventures (@fryingpanadventures).

We learn how Chinese food became Indianized the history of 'authentic' Desi Chinese cuisine and share our favourite foods with Mumbai-based food writer Kalyan Karmakar and our Frying Pan food tour guide Tanya Rehman.

Grab a rundown of all the dishes described on our blog here. 

Instagram handles: Kalyan Karmakar (@thefinelychopped), Tanya Rehman (@tanya18r) and Frying Pan Adventures (@fryingpanadventures).

We explore 5 chilli-studded dishes in Dubai that aren’t just dangerously hot, but also irresistibly delicious with our GM and tour guide Farida Ahmed and the founder of Haute Sauce, Ambika Rajgopal.

Grab the list of the 5 dishes shared on this episode and where to find them on our blog.

Instagram handles: Farida Ahmed (@faridaa) Ambika Rajgopal (@hautesauce_dxb) and Frying Pan Adventures (@fryingpanadventures).

We try to wrap our heads around cooking and eating sacks of fish roe with guest speakers Mo Abedin aka @saucebeast from Sticky Rice and Deepika Shetty aka @shortgirlbakes.

Instagram handles: Frying Pan Adventures (@fryingpanadventures), Mo Abedin (@moabedin / @saucebeast), Deepika Shetty (@shortgirlbakes)

We unearth popular gluten-free flatbread recipes that have historically been made across India with our two food tour guides, Farida Ahmed and Noorin Ansari. 

Visit our blog for Noorin's recipe for a lentil-based dosa as well as where to find these flours and breads across Dubai.

Instagram handles: Frying Pan Adventures (@fryingpanadventures), Farida (@faridaa), Noorin (@noogoopoo). 

We sift through the history and technique behind making the perfect couscous with Algerian food lover and blogger, Radia Si Yousef.

Check out our blog post which includes a link Radia's perfect couscous recipe and other couscous links as well as the full transcript.

Instagram handles: Radia Si Yousef (@radatouille), Frying Pan Adventures (@fryingpanadventures).

We get to the bottom of why Uzbek restaurants serve Korean dishes with two of our teammates who led a Korean-Uzbek food tour in Dubai.

Check out our blog post with the list of dishes, restaurants to taste them at in Dubai and the full transcript here.

Instagram handles: Frying Pan Adventures (@fryingpanadventures), Nahla (@nahlatabaa), Mufaddal (@mufaddal.husein). 

We discover Azerbaijani cuisine with Jamila Qadir, a Dubai-based journalist from Azerbaijan. She serves us a virtual 3-course feast of traditional plov, kufte bozbash and ajapsandal.

Get Jamila's recipes for her 3-course feast on our blog here.

You can also connect with Jamila over twitter @jamilaqadir.

Instagram handle: Frying Pan Adventures (@fryingpanadventures).