Food Trail Pakistan: Karachi

I must confess, I am one of those people who feels that the winter is the best time of the year for ice cream. As a result, to me it makes perfect sense for someone to be opening a gelateria in December. After all, how cold does it ever actually get in Karachi? As it turned out, the soft opening of this place coincided almost perfectly with a cool snap in the city of Trumpian climate change tweet proportions. Which worked perfectly for me. Amiamo (Italian for 'we love') Gelato is situated on Lane 1, Bukhari Commercial. In the best tradition of Karachi directions, it is the same galli as Neeco's and Bina Khan, a couple of doors before Dialogue. I wanted to say it's 'tucked away', but it isn't really - the way DHA's commercial areas are structured, everything feels tucked away, this is actually one one of the larger lanes and not at all difficult to find.  It's a small space (think the original Zamzama outlet of Espresso) - most of the space ...

Pub crawl : noun [ C ] UK informal: A visit to several pubs, one after the other, having a drink or drinks at each one While a traditional pub crawl, requiring the consumption of copious amounts of alcohol while getting progressively more and more drunk, it not logistically possible in Karachi, there is a variant that I have been toying with for a while, and it goes a little something like this: Visit an area with a lot of eateries clustered closely together, and sample one dish from each outlet; this would result in the consumptions of copious amounts of food, while getting progressively more and more stuffed in the process.  A few days ago, with the takeaway that we wanted to place our order with not being available, I decided to put my plan in action, and headed for the Chhota Bukhari street food hub, with the objective of covering a sample of the places open there. We arrived from the far side of the street (i.e. farthest from Saba Avenue) and, basically at rando...