Your Hakka Fix, The Ethnic Aisle Way!
/These are our favourite Hakka Chinese restaurants in the GTA. (Why are we even telling you this?!)
Read MoreDirty Talk? Sure, but not in that language!
/Would you dirty talk in your mother tongue? That's what Bhairavi Thanki's asking.
Read MoreMy Big Fat Non-Traditional Wedding
/Bhairavi Thanki discusses why she isn't going to have any of her family's Indian traditions in her own wedding, no how, no way.
Read MoreJust Say No: Q&A with a Muslim
/“It felt weird to me to be the only sober person in a room full of people who were inebriated.” Bharavi Thanki talks to a young, ambitious Muslim woman about whether her choice not to drink affects her career path.
Read MoreIt's Lucky to Have a Hairy Daughter
/Bhairavi Thanki thought being hairy was awful, until she found out it was lucky. “My parents once told me that they were fortunate to have a hairy daughter. It brings good luck they said. Excuse me, what?! I thought they were trying to make me feel better after one particularly gruesome waxing session.”
Read MoreSome Like It Hot
/Indian food is the best kind of food.
These aren’t my words but those of my mother. All my life, as I substituted salads for her cooking in an attempt to lose weight, she’d convince everyone at the table that I would never achieve my desired results until I started eating Indian food for every meal, every day. So, I rebelled, completely ditching my diet. I asked my dad, who was more open to a multicultural palette, if we could eat somewhere non-Indian.
I took my parents to eat some Thai, which has slightly similar flavours to Indian. My mum said she could make it at home. I took my parents to Chili’s to have some nachos. My mum said she could make it at home. I took my parents out for pasta at the best Italian restaurant in town. My mum said she could make it at home. I snapped. I challenged my mum to forego her regular schedule of cooking daal and rice to baking a batch of nachos. What happened next blew my mind.
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