Enjoying Indian Food at Bollywood Parks, Dubai 🇮🇳🇦🇪

I visited a Bollywood theme park in Dubai to enjoy some fun rides and delicious desi food.

‪@LukeDamant‬ and I visited Bollywood Parks in the afternoon of a weekday, hoping the park would be quiet and we wouldn't have to queue for any rides. It turned out not just to be quiet, but completely dead. There were almost no other visitors there.

We bought tickets on a third party booking site for 220 AED ($60 USD / £43 GBP) that also got us access to another theme park and 'Q-Fast' wristbands, which is what they call their fast pass, in order to skip the line. Of course in an empty theme park a fast pass is as useful as an inflatable dart board.

Unfortunately there was only one ride there that we really enjoyed and that was the huge swing. They have what they are saying is the longest wooden roller coaster in the world but it's still under construction and the Ferris Wheel was closed for testing purposes, we were told. So that was disappointing.

The other rides were indoor rides that were mostly in the dark, or 4D movie experiences where you get sprayed in the face with water and stuff. I couldn't film any of that because the staff were strict about telling me to put my camera away. Since there were more staff than visitors it wasn't easy to record sneakily, like I usually do in theme parks.

So what I had planned to be a full theme park vlog with a few scenes of food just ended up becoming another food vlog.

They have a fancy and authentic Indian restaurant called Namaste India, where I was able to get a properly made Chicken Biryani.

A lot of the "biryani" dishes that you find outside of India are not made the proper way, and there's a big difference. When it's done properly the rice soaks up all the flavour of the meat, the masalas and everything else in the pot and is so delicious.

Luke is a bread addict, so he went for some authentic naan that was cooked in a tandoor oven to go with his Dal Taka (lentils cooked with fried herbs and spices.)

Another one of their restaurants in designed like a Mumbai Train station, where they even have Mumbai local trains outside that you can sit in to eat your food. I got some delicious Dahi Puri there. Puri is a type of puffed, fried wheat flour and they were stuff with potato and then covered in boondi (little balls made from fried chickpea flour), spicy mint chutney, tamarind chutney, sev (crunchy chickpea flour noodles), pomegranate seeds and of course dahi (milk curd).

The food was delicious. I did feel like the biryani had very little spice to it.

0:00 Bollywood Parks
0:58 Swing Ride
2:36 Chicken Biryani
12:50 Dahi Puri

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