The Fusion Easter Egg

Is it an egg? Is it dessert? Is that a bird’s nest? Or is it Kunafa? 🥚🪶It’s actually a little more than all of that..Happy Coptic Palm Sunday 🌴With Easter just being a week away and Ramadan still going, I thought to try and bring you something really special. This is a fusion of cultures,…

Ginger Restaurant: So much more than spice!

A couple of nights go I was invited by the lovely Ms. Zeina through a very spontaneous phone call to go and try her new restaurant: Ginger. She had mentioned that it offers Nikkei cuisine, which I have not heard of since the old Izakaya ( in Arkan) and Keji (which was awful). I was…

Shiso Pesto Udon

When I come up with fusion recipes, I like to think beyond adding just one foreign ingredient to a classic dish and calling it fusion cuisine. It needs to be a bit more than that. What other ingredients can be substituted? What do the different cultures of the fusion dish have to offer each other?…