Out and About in Dubai

 

Although I’m quite keen on learning how to cook Indian and Middle Eastern food while here in Dubai due to the wide-spread availability of key ingredients and spices, I still crave some of my mom’s Chinese and Vietnamese homecooking as well as other Asian foods that I am used to eating in New York.

Since my mom’s not here with me and Dubai isn’t New York, it’s up to me to re-create my mom’s most scrumptious recipes as well as those dishes that I can’t get in Dubai’s restaurants.

Thus my foray a couple months ago to Karama which is about a 20 minute drive North from my apartment (on a good day). I had heard that in Karama there is a Korean supermarket and that it was “behind the post office,” and that there is a Thai grocery “next to Venus restaurant.” Yes, all great and wonderfully precise directions…uh, NOT. Again, I lament on the lack of a real postal system here!

Anyway, I did drive around in circles…not just on one occasion but maybe two or three separate ones. Eventually, through the help of google and a few phone calls, I found both markets as well as the Chinese groceries in Deira (photo above) and even another Thai (possibly Singaporean) grocery in the Karama fish market.

To help future shoppers out, I have pinned the locations to these markets on a google map. Please click here for the map and if you know of any other places where one can get Chinese/Korean/Japanese/Thai products, please let me know!

PS - Still no luck in the search for bubble tea even after wandering all around Al Attar center in Karama.

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Last Friday, I partook yet again in free champagne night at Boudoir. I behaved so well the first time but this particular night did not end pretty at all. Forgetting that champagne is not water, I ended up praying to a couple of porcelain gods throughout the evening.

To top if off, I managed to lose my purse which had my house keys, money, credit cards, ID, and camera. Now that is something I haven’t done in a long, long, time.

Luckily, when I called the club the next day, they had found my purse and everything was still there - not a single dirham was missing.

Definitely a lesson learned - can’t have too much of a good thing.

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