A VANTRO espresso machine for my fortieth, and a kitchen someone had already planned around it.
Indian Coffee House in Bhilai, from monthly hospital breakfasts with my grandmother to a veg cutlet, French toast and two black coffees this morning for ₹350.
The food trucks at Civic Center, Bhilai, where birthdays, first salaries and New Year parties ran on pooled money, chicken chilli and tandoori roti, and where I still eat whenever I'm back.
Six years of the same Maharashtrian thali at Shabri on Ganesh Chaturthi, and the year they capped the modak at one.
My first Sichuan hot pot in Dalian, China, in 2017 — a fiery Chinese hot pot experience in minus-20°C winter, and why it remains my choice for a last meal.
