What happens when you fall in love with noodles, soups, and every type of dumpling? You make a business out of it, says Megha Polali.
For most people, hankering for home food in a distant land would probably mean just that — food cooked in one’s family kitchen. For Mangalurean Megha Polali, it was desi Chinese.
“One day, I was in the Mall of the Emirates and came across the renowned Din Tai Fung. I began to miss eating momos and Indo-Chinese food terribly,” she says of the time in 2014, when she visited the Dubai unit of the Taiwanese restaurant chain known for its noodles and dumplings.