Cambodian Sticky Rice street food

Sticky Rice is a popular snack found on the roads in Cambodia. Healthy and tasty, it costs only about 1500 Riels, which amounts to less than half a US dollar. A small amount of raw rice mixed with condiments like a few black beans, sugar and coconut with a little salt is stuffed into a bamboo container as shown below. Then it is sealed with a few thick strands of soft bamboo, before being cooked on a slow fire.

Sticky Rice in Bamboo being cooked on a slow wood fire. It can take several hours.

The seal is then removed and the sides of the bamboo is peeled slowly, revealing the sticky and very tasty, smoky rice.

These are on sales on the streets and highways and is a healthy and economical snack.

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Pani Puri or Gol Gappa or phuchka vendors

It is known as Pani Puri in Western India, Phuchka in Eastern India and Gol Gappa in the North. And it's one of the most popular snacks. Small round deep fried puris stuffed with a mixture of mashed vegetables and chick peas, it is dipped in flavoured watery syrup which tastes sweet and sour and then popped whole into the mouth!

It is available in every corner of India, although it not so much in Southern India. Here is a man at a popular tourist spot with his ready-made puris, waiting for customers.

Here is a customer, a little girl who has just finished a plate of pani puris! Her mother is scrambling for some change in her purse. The yellow container has the flavoured water.

A Gol Gappa vendor on the beach. Hygeine is usually an issue because water is used and that is why more and more Indians prefer to make it at home. Fancy places use bottled water.

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Cronut craze

It's the new craze in western countries, this sinful dessert which is a combination of a doughnut and croissant. It's deep fried like a doughnut but the ring shaped dough also has layers. And layers mean more fat which is placed between the layers! These are medium sized cronuts from Theos, a bakery in South Mumbai. Must be at least 350 calories each although one cannot be sure how much fat is actually used inbetween the layers. A plain doughnut is usually around 200 calories for a medium sized one.

A cronut is one of the worst high calories culprits. Pure junk. While sugar, white flour in abundance plus far too much fat. Mostly refined oil used for frying. Theos says they use butter for the dough not margarine, but most bakeries used margarine in their bakery products and margarine contains the dangerous transfats. It's a hydrogenated fat and bakery products found in supermarkets in India all contain this. Causes the arteries to clog. Best make your favorites at home, using butter.

A close up of a cronut. Layers lined with fat and glazed with sugar and chocolate cream on top.

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Typical Indian breakfast from Western India

Different parts of India have different cuisines. If paratha or dalia are some of the stable breakfast foods from North India, pohe or poha and dahi vada are often eaten in Maharashtra, in western India.

Pohe as it is called in Marathi and (Poha in Hindi)is made from flattened or beaten rice. It is soaked a little bit in water before stir frying in a tadka. It is a light, high carbohydrate breakfast. Finely cut veggies or nuts can add to its nutritional value. Dahi vada is more a speciality of the south of India, but eaten as part of the Maharashtrian diet. These are vadas made from urad dal (lentils) which are soaked in dahi or curds (home made yogurt).

Both these dishes are decorated with chopped coriander and freshly ground coconut, as well as spices.

A close up of the dahi vada. Red pepper powder and chaat masala are used for decoration as well as taste. The different colours make for a very pretty and delicious looking dish.

Fresh corander and fresh coconut not only add to the looks of the pohe, but also add to its nutritional value. Freshly cut raw tomato does the same.

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Pastries Croissants and cheesecake

These are images of pastries of different types. Chocolate and cream and also buns and croissant type pastries. This photo was shot at a breakfast buffet at a five star hotel.

More pastries, cup cakes, and chocolate topped sweet pastries. Also plain buns and cream filled pastries. Again, a picture from a breakfast buffet at a five star hotel.

This is a photograph of rich pastries of different types, with chocolate, coffee, vanilla and pinapple cream. Some of these thick cake slices have walnuts and some are cream-filled.

Cheesecakes of  blueberry, strawberry, caramel and also oreo cheesecakes.

Here are flaky croissant type pastries with a ham filling.

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Biscuit packs photos

Photos of biscuits packs. These biscuits are of various kinds and from different companies. The first photograph is of some health biscuits like Britannia NutriChoice 5 grain biscuits, Sunfeats Marie Light, Britannia Hi Fibre Digestive and Horlicks biscuits. The packaging and colours used for the packs seems very similar. While white refined flour biscuits like Marie have a glycemic index- (showing how high foods get converted into energy) which could range from 75-90. This is unhealthy. Digestive biscuits have a better glycemic index, around mid-range. The longer the foods stay in the stomach the better it is because it prevents you from becoming hungry again soon!

This is a mix of different types of biscuit packs like Britannia Nutrichoice cream crackers and Pure Magic chocolate cream biscuits, Monaco salted biscuits, Parle G, Goodday and Hide & Seek biscuits. These multi-colored biscuits makes it difficult to distinguish between each! Monaco seems to have some unique packaging and the brand name stands out. Most biscuits have calories which can range from 35 (small, salted  biscuits) to about 80 or so. (sweet, large biscuits)

Another view of the packaging of the different brand of biscuits. All in all very colourful packaging, designed to attract children.

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Plate of golden brown Waffles

This is a cut-out photograph of a plate of waffles against a white background. Larger one is available.

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Chocolate Donuts photograph and illustration

These are photographs of chocolate coated donuts. Donuts are a high calorie food. Calories in donuts can range from 200 Kcal to 400 Kcal, depending on whether they are cream filled and also their size. A plain medium sized donut (without a topping) can be about 200 calories while a cream-filled large donut can contain 400 calories. A 75 gm jam filled donut is around 250 calories.
Donuts are an unhealthy food. Junk Food. They have little fiber, but are high in sugar and salt. They are ofcourse high in fat content as they are deep fried. If cream filled, they contain even more fat. The flour used is white refined flour or  "maida."

Please avoid eating these doughtnuts because they are fried in Crisco oil which is in part a full hydrogenated fat. Apparently they have re-formulated the oil in 2004 to reduce the transfats and it is less than one gram of trans fat per serving (the law allows them to declare such low levels as zero transfat). These doughnuts  are from madaboutdonuts but other doughnuts too will be fried in vegetable shortening too, perhaps worse than Crisco. It was sad to see people thronging the shop for these doughnuts which will only will increase their chances of getting a heart attack. A recent study showed that this type of fat (reformulated to reduce trans fats) is not much better than the original full of trans fat version as it "increased volunteers' blood sugar by 20 percent while simultaneously lowering the body's HDL cholesterol."

This is the same picture as above but it has been worked on in Photoshop and turned into a colored illustration.

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Chaat or savory snacks in India

The range savoury snacks called chaat is served all over India and is very popular. The variety of dishes is very large and the taste is usually a tangy, spicy, sweet and sour. Usually it is found at road-side stalls or sweet and snack shops. There are different preparations of chaat and the ingredients used are boiled potatoes, puris or thin wheat bread, yogurt, spices, chutneys, chickpeas and and crisp fried ingredients. 

This shows the counter where the chaat is being prepared. 

This is a close up of a ready-to-serve chaat dish.

These are the cooks hard at work.

A variety of chutneys - red (spicy, made of red pepper), brown (sour tamerind) and green (coriander and mint or pudina leaves). Finely chopped onion is served raw with the dishes.

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Bhel, an Indian Snack

These are two photographs of a savoury Indian snack, made out of sev (fried made out of lentils) and murmure (puffed rice) and mixed with sweet and sour chutney. It is served with finely chopped onions, tomatoes, coriander.

The first image is a cut-out of a plate of Bhel.

The second one is also a cut-out, but of two plates of bhel, one with a plastic spoon, and served on a red plastic tray.

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Popcorn vending machine

This is an image of a commercial popcorn vending machine inside a multiplex cinema theatre in Mumbai, India. Cameras are not allowed in multiplexes, and this photograph was shot on a cell phone.

The picture came out better than I expected. It has a sort of ghostly look to it. The pile of popcorn is glowing, as if something wierd is cooking, not just popcorn!

Masala Dosa and Sambar

The two photographs below are of a popular dish from South India, Masala Dosa accompanied by a curry called Sambar. It is made of a ground mix of rice and lentils and the curry is a spicy lentil curry. The Dosa is stuffed with potato bhaji which has a bright yellow look because of the turmeric used widely in Indian cooking.

The first picture is a cut-out of the dosa and sambar bowl on a simple grey background.

The second photograph is of the same dish against a simple white background. If you make a cut-out of any object in photoshop and save it as a Jpeg file then the background automatically becomes white.

This last photograph is of the dosa sans the sambar. It is a cut-out against a white background.

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Instant Noodles Stock Photo

This is an image of an open packet of instant noodles. The packet has been cut open and the photograph taken of both the packaging as well as the noodles inside. The brand is not immediately visible but on close scrutiny it can be deciphered.

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Snacks from India

The first picture has two snack items. One is the yellow dhokla,a steamed Indian snack made of fermented lentils and the other is a hard pastry stuffed with a mixture of ground spiced lentils (dal)and coconut, decorated with coriander. These are typical Gujarati snacks.

This a close-up of the dhoklas which are ready to be sold at a sweetshop. They are a variation of the traditional snack, in the sense that there is an idli layer at the bottom. Inbetween the white idli layer and the dhokla layer there is a thin layer of red chutney, making this a dhokla sandwhich. The dhoklas to the right of the image are covered with a thin plastic. In the background are some empty paper cartons to pack the food items. The dhoklas are dressed with chopped coriander and grated coconut. 

The photo below is of a potato fried snack, very popular in Maharashtra, India. It is made by deep frying a mixture of potato and spices with a coating of besan. Besan is a lentil paste. Fresh coriander and onions are also used in the mixture. It is served with spicy lasun (garlic) chutney. The chutney can be seen to the left of the image.

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