Gourmet Traveller

A QUICK WORD WITH ARKA DAS

I was born in Bangladesh. We migrated when I was six and I grew up all around Western Sydney: I’ve lived in Ashfield, in Blacktown, in Auburn, in Strathfield.

She learnt everything she knows from her mum, and I’ve learnt everything I know from her… Growing up in the ’90s, we didn’t have a lot of the ingredients that you can get now, all the Indian supermarkets weren’t really around back then. She used to

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