Khabar Magazine. May 2024 PRINT.

It’s past midnight, and throngs of friends and family have gathered on the streets of Surat in the western state of Gujarat in India. They have come out for their “second dinner”—where the star ingredient is the egg. The large, hot tavaas of the many street cart vendors are sizzling with an imaginative variety of egg-based dishes like paper-thin omelets, fried eggs, boiled eggs topped with garlic and chilies, spicy egg curries, and more—all of which could put a late-night breakfast at Waffle House to shame.