Falaah Spice

Running a kitchen in Lenasia means sourcing spices and specialty ingredients that aren't just generic or stale. Falaah Spice works with the realities of how home cooks actually operate — the need for fresh cumin, cardamom, chilli varieties, and other whole and ground spices that lose potency sitting on shelves. The work involves understanding turnover rates, proper storage against Gauteng's temperature swings, and knowing which items locals use regularly versus what sits gathering dust. A spice merchant that sources thoughtfully and rotates stock keeps the quality high enough that a pinch of their cardamom tastes like something, not filler. That's the difference between cooking that tastes flat and cooking that tastes right.