Chef Wijendra reminisced about his childhood home in Galle where they would painstakingly hand pound the rice with a large mortar and pestle. He dared me to try a similar pestle at the resort and I ...

Idiappam in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, nool puttu in Coorg and southern Karnataka, and also puttumayam in Malaysia; string hoppers go by different names but are cooked in all these regions following a ...