New Year’s Milk Shake

Faludeh in Iran is a frozen dessert of wheat-starch noodles in a rose-scented syrup. Faluda in northern India is a dish of kulfi (rich ice cream) and wheat-starch noodles. Faluda in Bombay is a glorious milk-shakey affair in a tall glass. At the bottom, there’s a layer of soaked basil (Ocimum basilicum) seeds, tukhmuriya ni biya, with a slippery-crunchy texture that’s like nothing else. On top of the tukhmuriya ni biya is a layer of transluce