Raulito

Tag: comfort

  • TKO Tacos: The Taco Place I Always Go Back To

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    There are some places you don’t “discover”.You simply… return to them. TKO Tacos is one of those places for me. I’ve been going there for years. With friends. With my mum. And quite often, on my own. When I’m alone, I usually sit by the bar, chat with the staff, watch the chaos unfold, and…

  • Harry Potter and the Stories I Grew Up With

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    Harry Potter came into my life at exactly the right moment. It was 1999. I was living in Mumbai, and the third book had just come out. I remember hearing about the series, the buzz around it, the way people spoke about these books as if they were something special. I started with Harry Potter…

  • Mandrake, The Phantom, and the Indrajal Comics That Kept Me Reading

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    Mandrake, The Phantom, and the Indrajal Comics That Kept Me Reading When I think about the comics that shaped me, The Famous Five is not the first memory that comes up. Before that, there was another stack of books that I absolutely devoured: Indrajal Comics. Indrajal Comics were published in India by the Times Group…

  • Casa Orellana: A Classic Madrid Lunch Done Right

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    Some lunches are about the food.Others are about the people.And every now and then, you get one where both line up just right. Casa Orellana was that kind of lunch. We were three. Friends catching up after years, maybe even a decade, without any awkwardness, no forced updates, just easy conversation that picked up where…

  • The Wishing-Chair Adventures and the Books That Started It All

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    Before The Famous Five, before long series and thicker novels, there were The Wishing-Chair Adventures. These were, as far as I can remember, the very first proper novels I ever read. I must have been around nine or ten. I was living in Mumbai then, and I wasn’t going out much. I used to fall…

  • I’m Officially in My Rice Era

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    Paella, pulao, biryani, and everything in between. I had a small realisation recently, and once it clicked, I couldn’t unsee it. I am going through a massive rice phase. For over a month now, I’ve been eating rice pretty much every day. At least one meal for sure, sometimes even both. And honestly? I have…

  • Food That Feels Like Home

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    Home has never been a fixed point for me. It has shifted, stretched, and redefined itself over the years. Spain. India. Places in between. I have learnt to live comfortably with that ambiguity, but if there is one place where the idea of home has always felt certain, it is on a plate. I was…

  • Krachai: A Thai Lunch That Actually Tastes Like Thailand

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    Last Saturday, I went to Krachai for lunch with a friend, and it turned into one of those meals that stays with you. Partly because the food was genuinely excellent, partly because it was a delayed birthday gift and catch-up kind of day, and partly because the restaurant itself has that rare combination: stylish but…

  • How My Mornings Usually Go

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    Some mornings, it’s as simple as making chai and standing quietly in the kitchen while the water boils. No scrolling. No planning. Just waiting. Letting my mind arrive before the day does. Sometimes I’ll have the noticias playing softly in the background while I sip my chai, half listening, half still waking up. I try,…