Yummy street food
Being a tea taster’s daughter, tasting, experiencing and relishing new cuisines has been an integral part of my tastebuds.
Down my memory lane is Darjeeling’s Mall Road tea at the famous Glenery’s cafe. Nostalgic with its muscatel flavour, piping hot under my nose. No chai masala, no ginger, absolutely exotic tea of the second flush bouquet — one of the world’s most expensive teas.
In Chandini Chowk in Delhi you find parathewalli galli. My favourite is the paneer paratha with an overload of ghee, to be had with cauliflower, carrot and turnip mixed pickle… a sleeping pill in disguise.
M.I. Road Tholia House, in the city of Jaipur where your hunger pangs could be satisfied with just a single glass of lassi tingling down your throat — malai maarke.
Foodies need to visit the khao galli at Bhuleshwar in Mumbai. The variety of Gujarati farsaan, they cook up is unbelievable, the yummiest being the paper thin phaphdaas combined with saffron laden jalebis.
Chaat in Kolkata’s Tivoli Court speaks for itself. I gorge on the sprouts stuffed laccha aloo basket. Then lacing it with a matka full of sumptuous falooda kulfi, is the ultimate bliss.
In the midnight lane in Bengaluru’s Gandhi Bazaar you find the most amazing stuffed dosas, the best one being with the upma and spicy gun powder filling.
One should always sample the territory’s typical food for health and taste benefits. This way we acquire different tastes.
The writer is a
classical dancer
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