Korean and Japanese fare come to the city
Watching a good K-drama or an anime can sometimes turn into a mouthwatering experience, especially watching the actors gorge on Korean fried chicken or a piping hot bowl of Japanese katsu curry. These shows take you on a virtual food tour through the streets of Korea or eating at a yatai (movable food cart) in some Japanese alleyway.
Tiger Yaki, a new entrant in Bengaluru’s fastfood culture may help satisfy your craving for Japanese or Korean street food. Located on St. Marks Road, the brand was initially founded by Chef Rahul Vasandani and Karan Sharma in a quaint 375square-foot outlet in Pali Hill, Bandra, Mumbai. Since its opening, it has swiftly become a culinary sensation associating itself with streetstyle Korean and Japanese food.
The success of the brand in Mumbai prompted the Bengaluru outlet, brought to the city by ASAR Hospitality cofounded by Mohammed Aseem, Rohit Golia, Aryan Menon, and Sarfaraz Nawas.
With both indoor and outdoor sitting spaces, the décor has been kept minimal, with walls adorned with neon lights and the brand’s signature red dominating the colour palette of the space. We started with their classic chicken gyoza. This popular Japanese street food pan-seared dumpling stued with juicy chicken lling hits all the avour notes with the crispy chilly bits on top giving a real umami avour.
We then tried the Korean corn dog, while it did have the classic
Tiger Yaki adds a new range to culinary experiences.
Hits: Chicken Gyoza
Misses: Korean corn dog
Price for two: ₹500
cheese pull, it was on the bland side the Mozzarella stick inside was hard to chew and lacked crunch in the outer layer.
Apart from food, they also have an array of refreshing non-alcoholic beverages like kombucha and iced tea. We tried their lemon ginger kombucha and sweet lime iced tea, a musttry at Tiger Yaki, and a perfect respite in this Bengaluru heat.
We ended our meal with a bowl of basil-spiced chicken.
The hearty portion of braised chicken with basil and oyster sauce felt like comfort in a bowl, advisable only if you have a good heat tolerance. Places like Tiger Yaki, have become symbolic to city’s changing food culture especially people’s acceptability to global cuisine.
Imagine a world where Franz Kafka’s absurdism intersects with modern India’s vibrant chaos. A world where an innocent man ghts for justice against a system designed to silence him. This is the world of Innocence, a black comedy written and directed by Anmol Vellani, premiering in Bengaluru on May 10.
Innocence draws inspiration from Kafka’s The Trial, transposing its timeless struggle for justice to the realities of 21st-century India. As Anmol explains, “It’s an adaptation in two ways: rst, by transposing the story to contemporary India, and second, by translating it from a novel to a theatrical performance.”
The play tells the story of an unnamed protagonist who nds himself inexplicably accused of a crime whose nature remains shrouded in mystery. As he navigates a labyrinthine legal system, his unwavering insistence on his innocence leads him down a path of despair and isolation.
There are inherent di§culties in adapting Kafka’s work, Anmol acknowledges. “The Trial relies heavily on long, descriptive passages to create dread and terror, which are di§cult to translate directly onto the stage with minimal dialogue.” His task was transforming it into scenes lled with interaction, conict,