- Sasian Journey's Lotus Bazaar and Sanjha Chulha
Sasian Journey's Lotus Bazaar and Sanjha Chulha was held at The Ashok hotel, Delhi. Asian Heritage Foundation’s Jiyo hosted Lotus Bazaar South Asia’s first food exhibition named Sanjha Chulha, curated by Dr. Pushpesh Pant to promote the incredible variety of local and regional cuisines of South Asia showcasing the diversity of culinary along with some of India’s and South Asia’s best design led interventions by leading NGO’s, craft practitioners, designers and artists. Bazaar offered space for direct retail to those selected from all nine South Asian Countries attempting to connect them to the global market.
- Walkway
South Asaian or Sasian Journey gained momentum with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s historic engagement with the region and his visionary inaugural ceremony. Subsequent visits of respective heads of states underscored the increasing importance of amicable bilateral relationships to ensure regional security, sharing of common values, rule of law, democratic governance and respect for inclusive development.
- Fashion stall
There were collaborations between the nine countries of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Maldives.
- Exotic designs stall
Our experience at Sasian Journey's Lotus Bazaar and Sanjha Chulha
- Nepal stall
- Cloth exhibition by South Asian countries
We reached in the evening at the event being held at The Ashok, Delhi. It was a huge ground where big food stalls of South Asian countries were exhibited along with other handicrafts stalls from these nine countries. Going further, there were stalls of clothes like suit pieces, coats, stoles, pottery, traditional designs, handicrafts, art, designer accessories etc. These innovative pieces were highly creative and attractive. It was a nice round of exhibition clearly showing the amount of effort put in by the craftsmen and artisans.
- Exhibition of handicraft and clothing of South Asian countries
We were highly impressed by the exhibition stuff of these nine South Asian countries.It was a beautiful concept to put together.
- South Asian cuisine stalls
Bloggers table at Sasian journey's Lotus Bazaar and Sanjha Chulha
- Dishes of South Asia
Post this round, we had coffee and then was turn to look around for food. We could see food stalls. It was raining and dining area was busy. All dishes were well labelled and we were eager to taste them.
- Senior Executive Chef Mr.Loomba addressing the bloggers
Surprisingly, we came to know about an interaction with Mr. Rajan Loomba, the Chief Executive Chef, The Ashok Hotel who has the overall responsibility of the F&B Production Department and Official Banquets hosted by the Vice President of India & the Honourable PM of India. It was a pleasant surprise. Mr. Rajan Loomba has published high end recipe books from the Ashok Group of Hotels (ITDC) “Royal Recipe Book” , “Ashok Book of favourite Indian Recipes” and “The Coffee Table Menu Book for The Oudh Restaurant”. Oudh restaurant was started by him in 1995.
- Bloggers table
He has also presented Food Shows “Zaika ka Safar”, “Lazzat”, etc on several TV Channels: like ETV, CNEB and CNBC in India. While in Caracas, Venezuela presented a TV show on channel 33 anchored by Mr. Hector Susy a famous food critic and popular TV food program host & was also invited by Chef Sumito (a celebrity Chef in Venezuela) to his radio program where we talked about the Indian Food & Culture and the Indian Food Festival.
Nidhi KM
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