Diwali 2023 Bangalore Diaries| Weekly Vlog 3

This must be the first time I’m celebrating Diwali with all the lights. Diwali comes with long days of holidays for everyone. Most people have left Bangalore for their hometown or other destination. We went to our friends place. You might have already seen them in my other vlogs as well. They’re getting married soon, in January. So, this Diwali is a homely one.

We reached late in the evening and went for a nearby place for dinner. The otherwise busy HSR was empty that day because of the holidays. After dinner, we went for an ice cream hunt. There was only one place open and they had already closed dining. So, we got our ice creams before getting an Uber.

Cafe 27 is our go to place for breakfast whenever we are in HSR. You might have already seen it in other vlogs. Puttu, the steamed rice mixed with coconuts and poori are our usuals. This day was it was the same. However, since it was the holidays and I was pretty sure of not making 10k steps conciously. However, we rtied to eat healthy as much as we can.

Diyas or the small mud lamps are my favourite during Diwali. We had many colourful ones and some special ones with different designs. We had a homely meal prepared by all of us. It was a typical Kerala meal with rice, sambar, long bean stir fried and pappdam. It was soo good. I love how I’m in the company of people who loves to cook and feed. I also learned a lot about cooking from them.

In the evening, we lit up all the diyas and had some fire crackers as well. Once everything was done, it was time for dinner and pretty much all places were closed. We went to an open street food like place hoping it would be open.

Litti chowka from the Bihar junction is good. Since I don’t eat ghee, I never tasted it but everyone agrees that it’s one of the best you get in Bangalore. I had a mushroom and corn Masala dosa. We had Falooda as well after that but it wasn’t that great.

The next day morning we went for breakfast at a new place. We tried pineapple holige and it was so good. That’s the first time for me and I loved it. I would go back there just to try it. After days of eating out and not-so-healthy food, we decided to prepare lunch as well.

It was palak paneer. It is one dish I know I can cook easily. For dinner we went to a small cafe in Kammanahalli called Olive. We had burgers and some drinks from there. That was this year’s Diwali. It was bright and colourful. I loved it.

I’ve kept the video on an ASMR mode with original sounds only to capture all the little things we did for the holidays.

See you in my next vlog, Take care🙂