26.02.2017 Lunch (二月初一吃素)
@ Al Dur Power Plant, Kingdom of Bahrain (click to Google Map)
Jau, Bahrain (towards south of Bahrain Island)
素印度香饭 Vegetable Biryani Rice
Thoughts: Today is 二月初一, so a month passed after the Chinese New Year but I hardly notice anyway; no interest in CNY celebrations. But I continue with my Vegetarian today at the Al Dur Power Plant.
Ordered the Vegetable Biryani Rice, I have many times savor Biryani Rice with meat but not Vegetarian. It is different but a good change as lately really too much meat. But I only taken maybe 1/5 of the rice that came with the sauce.
Supposedly as I understand, again from the Web, the word "biryani" is an Urdu word derived from the Persian language, which was used as an official language in different parts of medieval India, by various Islamic dynasties. One theory is that it originates from "birinj", the Persian word for rice. Another theory is that it derives from "biryan" or "beriyan" (to fry or roast) and that is according to Wikipedia.
But it is something of a staple food for the Muslim communities of both but primarily Northern India and Southern India. It seems that its a 4000 year old history of people adding cow meat, mutton, and beef to their rice which is the precursor of what is known as Biryani Rice today. And the derivative into Vegetable Biryani must be due to the demand of the same thing but without meat for a larger population of Indian Vegetarians, I think!
Rating: 3 / 5
@ Al Dur Power Plant, Kingdom of Bahrain (click to Google Map)
Jau, Bahrain (towards south of Bahrain Island)
素印度香饭 Vegetable Biryani Rice
Thoughts: Today is 二月初一, so a month passed after the Chinese New Year but I hardly notice anyway; no interest in CNY celebrations. But I continue with my Vegetarian today at the Al Dur Power Plant.
Ordered the Vegetable Biryani Rice, I have many times savor Biryani Rice with meat but not Vegetarian. It is different but a good change as lately really too much meat. But I only taken maybe 1/5 of the rice that came with the sauce.
Supposedly as I understand, again from the Web, the word "biryani" is an Urdu word derived from the Persian language, which was used as an official language in different parts of medieval India, by various Islamic dynasties. One theory is that it originates from "birinj", the Persian word for rice. Another theory is that it derives from "biryan" or "beriyan" (to fry or roast) and that is according to Wikipedia.
But it is something of a staple food for the Muslim communities of both but primarily Northern India and Southern India. It seems that its a 4000 year old history of people adding cow meat, mutton, and beef to their rice which is the precursor of what is known as Biryani Rice today. And the derivative into Vegetable Biryani must be due to the demand of the same thing but without meat for a larger population of Indian Vegetarians, I think!
Rating: 3 / 5
