Food Chapter: Restaurants in Kolkata you might have never heard of

 We bengalies really can't leave without rice. Even when eating out with friends or at a date we end up ordering either Fried Rice and Chilli Chicken or Biriyani and Mutton Chaap. We cannot go beyond that. Sometimes it is because we simply cannot do without some rice in our plate, and sometimes because we are not aware of the restaurants with serves something else beyond Chinese.

So... I am going to suggest you guys some places where you can get some good Italian/Thai/Mexican or something other than Chinese and Mughlai food at a very pocket friendly rate.


First up

Smart Kolkata 

Location : Prince Anwar Shah Road, Tollygunj

Price for 2: Approx 600rs

It is basically a continental restaurant but they serve some awesome Italian food. It you are a fan of Italian food or of cheese you must visit this place. As for me, I visit this place at least twice a month.

Food you MUST try out here: Chicken Lasagna and Spaghetti Bolognese


And did I forget to mention that they serve awesome garlic breads with almost everything?


Next up...

Red Bamboo Shoot

Location: 7/3 Chandra nath Roy Road, Tiljala

Price: For 2 people: 600rs approx

Authentic Chinese food in very very pocket friendly rate.
You should try out the shredded chicken...

Punjabi Rasoi

Location: 225, Rajdanga, Nabapally,Kasba, Kolkata

Price: For 2 People: 700rs approx

Awesome, delicious Punjabi food which will have you licking your fingers.

You should really try out their Mutton Adrak De Punje  befor you die and of course don't ignore their cheese garlic naan.

Mango People

Location: 817/4, Opposite State Bank of India, Kalikapur Road, Kalikapur, Kolkata

Price: 650 for 2 people approx

Apart from the awesome ambience, the food is also good.

I've visited this place only once and I preferred their Thai cuisine over their Italian one

Since I visited this place only once I can't say what is the must try dish that they place but I really liked the Thai Red Curry and it tasted much much better than any Thai food that I tased in town. 

So this is it for now,, but do come back in a few weeks cuz I am going to taste the Bansh Pora served at Santa's Fantasea and update this article when I come back... ;)

Matrix Biolage Fibrestrong Conditioner Review

Today I'm going to review the best conditioner I've ever used in my entire life.
Since I moved to a metropolitan city and started working in a corporate firm, my hair was getting greasy and sticky by the second day of washing. I have fine flat hair and I was fine with it and never dreamt of volume but since this greasy hair problem started I started looking for volumizing shampoos and conditioners and I have been trying out volumizing products and reading reviews. As a result to experimenting thousands of products I started loosing hair and I was worried sick. I had never had any hair problem earlier (*touchwood), no greasy hair, no hairfall, no split ends, no tangles, but every good thing comes to an end. My hair got greasy, my bed sheet was always messed with hair strands, I didn't know what to do and I started skipping conditioner. At first everything was ok but after a month or two my hair started getting rough.
That's when I came across this magic conditioner. I've never used any Matrix product earlier because tehy contain so much chemicals, but I decided to give it a try anyway, so I ordered a conditioner online and that turned out to be one of the best decisions I've ever made.
I've been using the conditioner for every otherday for over a month now and I fell in love with my hair once again. It's like I've bid goodbye to greasy hair forever and my hairfall problem stopped completely. The best part is that I have volume in my hair which I never dreamt off.
So this conditioner has turned out to be the one solution for my all hair problem and I'm definitely buying the shampoo as well.

 I don't care much about the packaging so I'm not saying much about that except for I really like the packaging.

MRP:435 rs for 196gn

Rating: 5/5

The last thing I would want to say about this conditioner is that every girl with fine, flat hair must give this conditioner a try, it will be totally worth it.

Taylor Swift all set for an India tour this August

All you Swifties out there, we have some good news for you!!!

According to some sources, it has been confirmed that Taylor Swift has agreed for a long impending India Tour which will kick start with Delhi-NCR as its first venue. The other cities which will be covered during this tour are Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Hyderabad. 

The venues and concert dates for all other cities have not been decided yet. However, Delhi has almost zeroed down on the venue which, in the past has seen many Hollywood A listers playing. Buddh International Circuit which boasts of an impressive Grandstand and can accommodate more than 100, 000 people (That's more than enough seats folks!) will host Taylor.

The concert is expected to take place somewhere towards the end of August. The other cities can look forward to their gig in the following months. The organizers will make an official announcement soon. 

Taylor is expected to belt out their most famous chart busters along with playing some unplugged versions of her prominent songs like Blank Space, Style, I Knew You Were Trouble among others. 

The Tickets will be available soon online....

We also have some exclusive after party passes to give away. To know more about how to win the passes keep on reading...

Long Story Short... 

NO ONE IS COMING!

Happy April Fool's Day!

:D

Jenna is Big A, PLL theory

Only 2 episodes away till we find out Who A is and am getting goosebumps already. Here is my theory, let's see if am right... :D

• King said there might be a Twin but that won't be Courtney,.... well who else thought it was creepy?

Can Jenna and Sydney be twins?

• Remember when Jenna picks up Emily at 3 x 18? 
  

Nice Red Coat Jenna!
Here's another picture from that night

Looks like she's putting her hair up, we don't remember Jenna ever putting her hair up. The only reason she needs to tie her hair up is of course if she wears a wig. P.S. Nice gloves Jenna!

• Talking about wig

Notice how Ali's eyes are cut out in all the pictures?  Who might have an obsession with Ali's eyes?

mmmm, let's say the girl who lost her sight because of Ali?

• And then...

According to a spoiler

There'r two people with brown here we know... Jenna and Melissa

• In 3 x 24 A sets fire in the lodge with the liars inside. In the next episode Jenna has a mysterious burn in her hand
• Talking of Mrs.D protecting her. Mrs.D was actually protecting Bethany who hit Ali from behind. Where as Jenna mistook Bethany for Ali and hit her and later Melissa buried her alive.
• A comes back more fierce than ever in episode five, right after Shana is dead, That explains Jenna avenging Shana's death.
• Welcome to the doll house...

 

         Well who else is blind by left eye?

• And then, Jenna, Shanna and Mona, They all have one thing in common, all of their names end with the same letter

So does Melissa's name....

Givenchy 7 Gris Organza Ombre Couture Cream Eyeshadow Review

This is the first cream eye shadow I have ever used and I am extremely satisfied with it. I am a huge fan of smokey eyes look and have been looking for the perfect black eye shadow, well I have to search no more. This shimmery eye shadow blends very easily and lives up to it's claim of 16 hrs stay. I wore it for around 12 hrs and it did not fade neither smudged.
Talking about purchasing it again, well I won't need to, cuz the tub has enough to last a lifetime.

Hangout places in Kolkata and outskirts you didn't know about

We bengalies love to travel, mostly during the Puja holidays, We travel so much that we have to find new places to travel, sometimes we go to same places more than once. I remember going to Kashmir and rarely missing Kolkata because everybody around me were talking in Bengali, the only reminder that I was out of Kolkata was the herd of pretty sheeps, and of course the sceneries. But how many of us has been to the hangout places in Kolkata or at the outskirts? I mean we take a day to visit the botanical gardens during our trip but how many of us has went to Alipur Horticulture? Yes there's a Horticulture in Kolkata and it is an amazing place to hangout. Here are a few places where you should plan a weekend trip or just an evening visit before making the next travel plan.

Alipore Horticulture.

I've been there on a winter afternoon while the flower show was going on. Truly speaking I've seen nothing like that in my entire life and I'm going to take my mum when the next flower show starts.

Chintamoni Kar Bird Sanctury

Trust me, you wouldn't want to miss this place. A small tip: Don't make much noise when you are hanging out amidst the woods, you will make the birds fly away. ;)

Santiniketan

I don't think I have to say much about this place. :)

Bakkhali

I have heard a lot about this place but haven't been that lucky to spend a weekend over there. But someday a blog post about this place will be up. I promise.

Princep Ghat

You'll be stupid if you stay at Kolkata and never been this place. 

Well these are just a few spots to hangout in and around Kolkata. But we are not done yet... We'll keep travelling and discovering and editing this post... Till then, decide which place among the above would you like to start with. :)

Piyali Island

If you love travelling but hate  tourist crowd this might just be the idead place for you to visit on a weekend.  Away from all the city hustles and tourist crowd you'll find the tranquility of nature along with a touch of the Sundarban.

There is only one privately run lodge in Piyali Island which has nice arragnment for night staying and is filled with gardens and birds.

The Other Half of the Society.

While going to work or just hanging out with friends we often ignore some fellow human beings who sits at the sidewalk begging for some food or just sleeping on a torn piece of clothes or maybe nothing.  We make our way through the sidewalk and proceed to our destination,  sometimes irritated if we are running late.  But have we ever taken the trouble of going through their minds,  feeling what they might be possibly feeling? Well I did... n I'll tell you what I've felt... The lady who was sitting at the sidewalk with her crying baby in lap the other day when I was coming back from a dinner with my sister, yes I went through her mind,,, she was hungry as hell, having nothing to eat in the last few days,  she was desperate to feed her baby.  And that old lady I come across everyday while coming back from office,  have I seen her shivering during the winter?  There are thousands of them out there...thousands of hungry, cold, homeless people for whom we give a damn... why do we care if they are starving death or shivering through the night?  I'll tell you why should we care... cause we are human beings and we SHOULD CARE about the other half of the society. ..
In a city like Kolkata we often have to think twice before dropping some coins in front of them... and we all know why... we all are aware of the begger association, and the well known fact about using cocaine to put young kids to sleep and using them to get our sympathy. ..
 So are we going to overlook all of them and let them die even if they aren't part of any of these?  We can't. ..
The other day when I saw that woman while coming back from dinner with my sister, we were carrying the excess food with us which my sister intended to give to an old lady who sits in front of her place, I tried to convince my sister that this woman looks much more needy, and that many of the students from her university help the old lady. The fact that there are other people to think about the old lady made it easy to make our mind , we had food for only one people,  and we gave the food to the woman with the baby,  and you should have seen the gratitude in her eyes... but what about the other days?  It's not possible  for me to visit that place everyday. . Does that mean she has to starve the other nights?  Why can't the other people who dine at that restaurant pack the excess food and give it to her instead of wasting it? Or why does the old people have to shiver through the night? I can only give my spare winter clothes to one old lady,what about the others?
Can't you give away ur spare clothes,  the ones that you don't wear anymore to some of the other half of the society while, or may be taking only the amount you can eat to your plate and pack the excess food for them the next time you dine out,  can't you do this little for them?