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  • Gun Smoke Lahore: A taste of the Wild West and yummy mud pie

    For food quality it gets seven, for food taste another seven, for food presentation six, for service six, for quality of crockery and cutlery six is just about good (no compromise here), for ambience a well-deserved seven (probably the best theme eatery in Lahore), for prices four (this is no cheap place), and for ease in parking and approach six...

    The outer shell was crisp, the size – thankfully - was moderate, the taste was good...

  • Test the air, taste the fury

    BETWEEN 2010 and 2015, Pakistan experienced a rain-related flood every monsoon season, yet not much changed in how we responded to this, or even how we discussed successive events...

    Pakistan’s Met Department was able to issue 48-hour forecasts at best, primarily because they were using empirical observations to generate their forecasts in those days...

  • Capital gets a taste of Japanese imperial court music

    ISLAMABAD: The Japanese Embassy celebrated the 65th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Pakistan by organising an evening of classical Gagaku music and dance performances at Islamabad Club on Monday...

    “I hope these cultural events organized by the Embassy of Japan in Pakistan will further strengthen the bonds of friendship and affection between our two nations,” he said...

  • Music lovers get a taste of Sufi music, wrapped in jazz

    ISLAMABAD: Saturday night at Kuch Khaas had a different feel for the audience who got to hear a unique sound of music - fusion between Sufi folk and jazz...

    Powerful vocals of folk singer Qurban Niazi together with the beats of the tabla and dholak and the rhythm of the electric keyboard and saxophone left the audience upbeat
  • Citizens get a taste of Japanese music

    Muhammad Naeem, director of the Pakistan National Council of Arts, said, “The PNCA and the Embassy of Japan have been collaborating on numerous events to showcase Japanese culture for the citizens of Islamabad...

  • PTI getting taste of its own medicine

    PESHAWAR: The sit-in staged by PTI in Islamabad against the federal government last year seems to be haunting its own government in the provincial capital where blockade of road near the provincial assembly has become the order of the day...

    On Tuesday, the protesting Class-IV employees again blocked the main road that connects the eastern part of the city with the western one through cantonment area
  • A taste of Iran

    There was a time when I liked Iranian food...

    Even though my experience of it was painfully limited, comprising almost entirely of the Chelo Kebab had in vintage Subhani Café at bustling Lucky Star Chowk in Saddar, Karachi
  • Sizzling summer gives Europe’s south taste of the future

    ROME: Swaths of southern Europe sweltered on Saturday in a heatwave that has claimed several lives, cost billions in crop damage and is, scientists warned, a foretaste of worse to follow in coming decades...

    At least five deaths in Italy and Romania have been attributed to the extreme conditions since the heatwave set in around the start of August
  • A taste of Kashmiri cuisine and culture

    The restaurant, named Koshar Foods, was inaugurated on Thursday “to promote the culture of held Valley in its liberated part – Muzaffarabad – and give tourists and locals a taste of…Kashmiri cuisine” at Upper Adda, which turns into an undeclared food street in Muzaffarbad shortly before sunset...

  • COLUMN: THE TASTE OF LANGUAGE

    The book has a brief but incisive introductory note by the poet in which she shares her thoughts on linguistic diversity in Pakistan, the relativity and sensibilities of languages...

    Language determines how we taste things, feel things, even the physicality of things...

  • EPICURIOUS: THE EXPLODING TASTE OF MANGO

    Optional, for decoration Crushed graham crackers Chocolate shavings A dash of coffee powder Castor sugar to taste to be added to whipping cream while whipping (Note: I prefer not to add it since there is enough sweetness in the caramel, mangoes and crust...

  • Tweaking the taste

    Chicken pasta saladIngredients 1 cup pasta, boiled 1 lemon, juice 2 chicken breasts, boiled 4 pineapple rings ½ cup mayonnaise ¼ piece iceberg lettuce 1 tbsp sugar 1 tbsp red chilli flakes Salt to tasteMethodBoil the chicken breasts and slice them finely...

     In a bowl mix chicken and boiled pasta
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