Making others feel at home on the shooting range
“I’m 81, but I can outshoot most people,” says certified 81-year-old revolver, rifle, shotgun and automatic handgun safety instructor John Poynter of Cypress. And then, just so we don’t get the wrong idea and play this one all John Wayne, the United States Navy veteran throws a [...]

Surati Farsan points its menu primarily toward the seaside state of Gujarat, one of India’s many culinary epicenters. Gujarati food is regarded as being remarkably clean and simple, with predominantly vegetarian dishes that work wonders with only a few flavors. And that’s what Surati Farsan specializes in. There’s pani puri, fried wheat shells puffed up [...]

Filipino food hits with heavy flavors, a cuisine as fond of the fryer as it is bottles of thick dipping sauces. And Salo Salo Grill’s lechon sa kawali serves up both of those: pan-roasted pork as crisp as any fried chicken but also somehow still impossibly tender—add on some Mang Tomas sauce and you can [...]

Weighed down at Salo Salo Grill

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
My first memories of Filipino food are brash ones: parties filled with whole roasted pig, lumpia practically by the pound and threads of translucent bean curd piled in the biggest bowls. But nothing hangs in my mind as permanently as that pig, its skin crisped with a [...]

Small plates mean big flavors at Surati Farsan

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
Little India has always been famous for more than a few foods: dosas as long as yardsticks, curries that crackle with a slow, lingering heat. To those who haunt the area, there’s no spot better for everything subcontinental. And that’s absolutely true—Little India is crammed [...]

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
The best Indian food is always a slow burn, stubbornly spicy and resistant to any water, juice or tea that drenches it. What can beat that heat, though, is a lassi—a yogurt-based drink that blankets the burn with a smooth and cool flood. A good lassi strikes the balance between sweet and [...]