Samosa chaat is one of the dishes served for the late afternoon tiffin meal at Mysore Veggie in Lowell. The snacks are a ritual with South Indians living in this area.
(Cheryl Senter for The Boston Globe)
Tiffin is an afternoon treat from India
Samosa chaat is one of the dishes served for the late afternoon tiffin meal at Mysore Veggie in Lowell. The snacks are a ritual with South Indians living in this area.
(Cheryl Senter for The Boston Globe)
Unless you're having an early-bird special, consuming a meal at 4 p.m. is unusual. But that's what you're doing when you eat tiffin - a meal eaten at an hour that doesn't happen to be a meal time. In the south of India, where tiffins are popular, they're the fourth meal of the day, consumed in the late afternoon. (Full article: 628 words)
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