Madhur Jaffrey (Dadi) who serves up the hot spicy food to Shawn and Gus is known for introducing Indian cuisine to the West and has written several cook books.
The opening credits are custom for this episode. Credits are at first in Hindi, which is one of the official languages of India, and written in Devanagari script then transforming into English. The theme is sung both in English and Hindi.
Jay Chandrasekhar who plays Raj's brother Jay also directed this episode.
Shawn says that he solves a case about once per week and usually one around Christmas. This is a reference to the series appearing weekly and usually having a Christmas episode once per year.