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Maddogs of Diego - Mauritian Theatre at the San Francisco Fringe Festival !

A Mauritian theatre troupe was selected to participate in the San Francisco Fringe Festival - a festival for Indie Theatre.

It's very very rare or rather never, that we get to have Mauritians perform in San Francisco. We were lucky this year that the Trup Sapsiway got to come to San Francisco to perform their piece - the Maddogs of Diego.

Maddogs of Diego is a play about the injustice the inhabitant of the Diego Garcia faced, about how Diego Garcia was traded in to the British for the Independance of Mauritius. It was an excellent play, with very good tempo, great actors and a little bit of everything, comedy, drama, tragedy.. Loved the performance !

Today, tickets to the show was sold out. Many of the Mauritians in the Bay Area drove from all around to come and attend the play. We took the theatre troupe out to eat and socialize a bit with us after the play. 

The theatre troupe is staying in a hotel only 2 blocks from me. So last week, I had invited them over for dinner and cooked some ethnic Japanese dishes for them and the day after, took them for a Mission Murals Art walk and to discover some real Mexican food in the mission !

 

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Mauritius Independance Day Potluck lunch for San Francisco Bay Area Mauritians

As every year is the tradition, we celebrate the Mauritius Independance day amongs all the Mauritians in the San Francisco Bay Area and this year, we had a record turnout of over 70 Mauritians.

It was a great awesome crowd with tons and tons of food as is the case with any Mauritian gathering. We had so much variety and so much food that I did not get to even try all of it. Many new Mauritians showed up this year following the successes from our previous gatherings.

This year, we also had a silent auction and raffle to benefit a non-profit organization helping the less fortunate in Mauritius and we got a decent amount collected to send to the organization. 

I've posted a few pictures of the different foods we have. Just to name a few of the foods that I can remember -  we had, amongst others,  Briani, Napolitaine, Gato Arouille, Gato Pima, Dipain Frire, Badia, Mine Frire, Carri Poule, Wantan, Lumpia, Sipec, Farata, Salade Mangue, Salade Laitue,  Chatini Cotomili, Mazavarou, Roti Poulet, Poudine Mais, Mauritian Flag Black Forrest Cake, Dahi Wada, Baguette Fromage, Poudine Dipain, Carri Zac dans Massalla, Gratin Sousou, Chatini Coco, Rougaille etc..

 

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Post Thanksgiving Dinner (Indo-Mauritian Food)

Like the french saying says "Jamais deux sans trois" (Never Three without two), with a pre and current thanksgiving dinner, it could not have concluded the thanksgiving period without a Post Thanksgiving dinner. Jay and Aruna hosted a post thanksgiving dinner at their place among a few Mauritians and rather than traditional american thanksgiving food, we had traditional Mauritian food. Went in early and helped Aruna cooked the Dal Puri.

Dal Puri is the yellow looking bread on the food plate and it's rather time consuming to cook. You first have to boil some kind of peas, crush it in into fine granules, fill each dough ball with a bit of the crushed pea, close it, flatten it and then cooked in a flat iron pan. While Caroline and Aruna did the dough, filling and flattening, me and Alex were assigned to flat iron cooking duties, spreading the flattened dough with oil and turning then after they puff up. 

Thanks Jay and Aruna for hosting such a great dinner with such great Mauritian food !

 

 

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Mauritian Independence Day Potluck Lunch for Mauritians in the Bay Area !

March 12th 2010 is the Mauritian Independance Day Anniversary (42nd Anniversary). We celebrated it in the Bay Area today with a pot luck lunch and gathering of all the Mauritians of the Bay Area.

We had some 40 Mauritians from all over the Bay Area - San Francisco, San Jose, Hayward, Fremont, Sunnyvale etc.. Always great as usual to meet up with all the good friends and share good foods and laughter. This time, we had some pretty good Mauritian Food - Anju and Mrs Rajkoomar had bothed cooked Vegetarian Briani !! That was so delicious and one of the most popular dishes in Mauritius. It's a major pain to prepare due to the extensive preparation stage. It was great to have some of that hard work they put into making it.

We also had the usual Gato Arouille (Grated Taro Cakes) and Achard Legumes from Yvette, Gato Piment from Aruna and multitude of cakes/deserts and other food by everybody else. Had a very wonderful time in good company and this time we had 3 new families that joined the party for the first time ! We finished off by singing the Mauritian National Anthem. Here are some pics of the delicious food and company that we had :)

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Bay Area Mauritian Dinner Party at Turmeric Indian Restaurant in Sunnyvale

As usual Caroline organized a dinner to celebrate the New Year for the Mauritian Community in the bay area. We had all voted for Indian Food in the South Bay and we picked Turmeric in Sunnyvale. It was a buffet and had great food. I loved their Goat Curry with bones, Malabar Fish Curry and all the other delicacies. They had so much food, that I did not even try it all out. We had a good turnout - about 30 Mauritians - this time though lots of kids ! It was great catching up with all the Mauritian folks !

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Mauritian Dinner at Jay and Aruna's place in Hayward

This past Saturday, I was invited to Jay and Aruna's place in Hayward for a traditional Mauritian dinner. Aruna's mom, well as Pravin's mom and dad were visiting and they had decided to cook the traditional '7 carris' (7 dishes) as we call it in Mauritius with Puri. We usually serve these dishes for weddings or for religious ceremonies. We even had the fake banana leaves to eat it on. In the past it used to be real banana leaves, but with them getting scarce, now even in Mauritius they use the artificial leaves. But we had more than 7 dishes I think (we usually don't count the starch and the side accompaniments). Here are the dishes they cooked.

Rougaille - the red stuff, typical mauritian tomato dish
Sousou - the light green stuff, stewed chayotte
Songes - the black stuff, stewed leaves of taro
Cari Bari - Split peas fritters in curry
Dal
Giraumon - yellow stuff, pumpkin dish
achard Piments - Picked green chillies and apples
Takar - Tamarin Relish
Gros Pois - Lima Beans curry
Puri - Puffed deep fried bread


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Good Bye Dinner and Scavenging party !

The Saturday before I left, I invited a few friends over to my place for dinner and scavenging.. yes scavenging. 

I decided to give away most of my stuff in donation  before I leave. They'd all have gone to goodwill. 

So, I thought I'd give my friends a pick first before boxing them up for goodwill or salvation army. At the same time, decided to cook up all that was in my fridge before I head off. I called a few of the Mauritian friends over.

My old housemates from Oxford, Mississippi who now live in California as well - Ken and Amalee were visiting SF and I invited them to join as well. 

I had started the dinner with dim-sum - vegetables dumplings and mini veggie chinese breads and some brasilian cheesebread (pao de quejos), then I had a dhall (split pea) indian soup and main entree was chicken lo mein (made with fresh pancit noodles) and we finished off by a chocolate cake, Priscille and Dennis brought from Cheesecake Factory. We also had tons of wine. Finished off all the wines and drinks I had on my shelf too ;)

That was the last party at my SF apartment before I clean up and give it back. I'll miss 1949 Chestnut Street :)

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Mauritian Dinner at Jay's

I was invited to a dinner at Jay and Aruna's place a few weeks back. Jay and Aruna are Mauritians living in the bay area as well, in Hayward. Aruna had decied to cook Dholl-puri which is this mostly Mauritian type bread... i guess closest I can describe it to something in the american diet, is a tortilla stuffed with ground yellow plit peas. Preparation of dholl puri is tedious.. split peas have to be crushed and grinded, flour dough prepared and then mixture stuffed in the middle and then the whole thing roller pressed to keep the split peas in the hollow middle layer and when heat is applied, its suposed to puff up - anyways.. hard to describe accurately.. you need to try it to know :)  We had a nice vegetarian dinner, followed by entertainment provided in house by the children present :)

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San Francisco Bay Area Mauritians.

Mauritians in the Bay Area at the 2008 MoValley (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/movalley/) annual summer picnic.

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BBQ at Priscille's in Dublin

Went to a BBQ at Priscille's place in Dublin (the California version) on Saturday evening.

Featured on the menu was grilled Sweet Corn on the Cob, grilled Chicken wings, Kebabs and grilled Pineapple and Aspargus. Dennis was the chef and grill-master, Priscille the hostess and Delphine the bakery chef.

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