VanillaSeven Photography » little india http://vanillaseven.com Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:00:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Little India-A Call from Home http://vanillaseven.com/2009/12/13/little-india-a-call-from-home/ http://vanillaseven.com/2009/12/13/little-india-a-call-from-home/#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:00:15 +0000 vanillaseven http://vanillaseven.com/?p=4654 Hubby: Yes dear?

Wife: Are you finished your work?

Hubby: Yes, I just closed the shop. On my way home now.

Wife: You buying meal? Our kids are hungry.

Hubby: I will, be back at home after I bought it.

Wife: Ok, we will be waiting for you, be safe.

Hubby: Yeah, love you.

Wife: Love you too.

And the man was about to cross the road while still on the phone…

A Call at Midnight Traffic

This man was about to cross in front of me while I was taking the photo of the road.

The Traffic light just turned green for vehicle.

That’s almost his last conversation with his wife if I didn’t pulled him back on time.

Don’t use your mobile while crossing the road or driving.

Ever saw similar case?

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]]> http://vanillaseven.com/2009/12/13/little-india-a-call-from-home/feed/ 14 Little India-Naan Bread http://vanillaseven.com/2009/11/24/little-india-naan-bread/ http://vanillaseven.com/2009/11/24/little-india-naan-bread/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:59 +0000 vanillaseven http://vanillaseven.com/?p=4487 Naan Bread, also called flat bread, is one of my favorite Indian food.

The texture are so soft and fluffy when its hot, you can taste a bit of burn smell of the dough.

Usually they eat this with a small plate of gravy made from meat curry.

The curry varies from chicken,mutton, fish to vegetables curry.

My personal favorite gravy is fish curry :P

Naan Bread

How they make this? They put a flattened dough on some kind of pillow and stick it on the inner ceiling of open top-big pot.

Then they close the lid for awhile. After few minutes, they opened the lid and use a hook to dig and peel this bread out.

I love Naan bread best compared to other type of Indian bread because it is baked, not fried with the greasy oil.

Above is the best Naan I’ve tasted so far in Little India.

What is your fave Indian food guys? :)

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]]> http://vanillaseven.com/2009/11/24/little-india-naan-bread/feed/ 9 Little India-Midnight Tailor http://vanillaseven.com/2009/11/06/little-india-midnight-tailor/ http://vanillaseven.com/2009/11/06/little-india-midnight-tailor/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:20 +0000 vanillaseven http://vanillaseven.com/?p=4303 When I was travelling around Little India area in Singapore, I bumped into this lonely Indian lady, doing her work late at night.

She was taking a breath when she saw me holding camera in front of her.

Immediately I gave her sign language, pointing to my camera and to her. She just smile and nodded.

I quickly took this photo…

Midnight Tailor

After that I gave her a thumbs up, bowed slightly thanking her and both of us returned to our separate own world.

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We are back to Little India!

Many type of animal are sacred in India, one of them is elephant (Elephas maximus indicus).

Elephants has been interacted with human since ancient times. Many ancient story in Asia involved elephant as a sacred being.

Elephants in the past are being used from transportation, war machine to the royal mount for the nobles and kings.

The most precious part from elephants (at least to human) are their ivory tusk, which they being hunted to the brink of extinction for that reason alone.

Little Elephants

As usual, almost every species of animal, there is a special breed called albino, and this is applied to elephant too.

White elephant was a symbol of royalty, but now when we heard about it, usually it speaks about something expensive and redundant. What is your view about this big mammal? :)

Little White Elephant

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]]> http://vanillaseven.com/2009/10/27/little-india-little-elephants/feed/ 6 Little India-The Local Vegetables http://vanillaseven.com/2009/10/07/little-india-the-local-vegetables/ http://vanillaseven.com/2009/10/07/little-india-the-local-vegetables/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:00:40 +0000 vanillaseven http://vanillaseven.com/?p=3647 Good morning lovely people!! :D

Its Wednesday! Means few more days till weekend!~Yay!

Recently I went to Little India for a photo session. Little India is an area where majority of Indians dwells and doing business here in Singapore.

You can easily come to this area via MRT train, North East Line (the purple line)

This post might become series, depend on how many photos I managed to take.

There are many of local groceries here selling ingredients and vegetables mostly for Indian food.

Here are few of them:

Carrots

Carrots can be eaten in a variety of ways. The simplest way is raw as carrots are perfectly digestible without requiring cooking. Alternatively they may be chopped and boiled, fried or steamed, and cooked in soups and stews, as well as baby and pet foods.

How you guys eat this usually, raw like bugs bunny or cooked? :)

Carrots

Next one is

Sponge gourd (Luffa, Si Gua, Patola, Oyong)

Eaten as vegetables. Personally I never tried this one, so there are little that I can tell, maybe any of you know better about its benefits?

Sponge gourds

Tomatoes

Tomatoes are now eaten freely throughout the world, and their consumption is believed to benefit the heart among other things. They contain lycopene, one of the most powerful natural antioxidants.  Personally, I like to sliced them, sprinkled sugar on top and chilled them in the fridge and eat! Overall, I love all kind and form of  tomato. How about you?

Tomatoes

Bitter gourd (Bitter melon, Pare, Pavakkai)

Other than its infamous bitter taste, Bitter gourd found its place in many delicious Asian cuisine. I personally likes it. From simply fried it with eggs or stir fried with meats, you name it. Bitter gourd was said to contain an anti ageing agent. Well, no harm consume it. What is your favorite dish cooked with bitter gourd?

Bitter gourds

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