Vegetables dipped in a spiced chickpea batter and fried: onion rings with ambition, essentially. Spinach pakora, potato pakora, chili pakora, paneer pakora. Sold by weight at South Asian sweet shops and cafeterias, eaten with mint chutney. AED 2–3 for a small bag.

Best on a cool winter evening, which Dubai occasionally produces between December and February, when the temperature drops to something a jumper can address.