https://www.scmp.com/rss/330218/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Don’t bother putting the chicken-or-egg conundrum to a Parsi, we’d been told. “He’ll tell you the egg came first,” a septuagenarian Parsi had said, guffawing through a missing premolar, “because that’s the first thing we eat every morning.” Gasping at our breakfast at Udvada’s Parsi-run Globe Hotel, the old man’s words come back to us. There’s bread with its trusted accomplices – butter, jam and chai – and a thick masala pancake of chickpea flour, but the egg clearly rules. Poro (masala... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/travel/article/3030464/udvada-indian-state-gujarat-spiritual-and-culinary?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/travel/article/3030464/udvada-indian-state-gujarat-spiritual-and-culinary?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 30 Sep 2019 23:15:08 +0000 Devise the world’s hardest, knottiest maze and we’d not be impressed. Not now, while we are meandering through a fierce tangle of tight narrow lanes that twist and split into more tight narrow lanes. Not now, while we are negotiating muck and goo, paws and hooves, wheels and too-muchness. Not now, while we are absorbed in the charms of the … well … too-muchness. A baffling web of alleys lined with traditional houses – some older than 300 years – bearing exquisite wooden facades and friezes,... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/travel/article/2183297/temple-mosque-heritage-walk-reveals-secrets?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/travel/article/2183297/temple-mosque-heritage-walk-reveals-secrets?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 25 Jan 2019 02:45:45 +0000