India’s varied palettes
31 May 2012 2:14 AM GMT
If you are a food lover, and willing to experiment, then Dilli Haat is where you should be heading. The place, a popular shopping haunt among Delhiites, is also home to food stalls by various states. We were looking for authentic cuisines in the city and decided to give it a try.
The first food stall we ventured into was the Assam House where the aroma of the tea from Assam filled our senses. The Assam lemon tea was the perfect start to this culinary journey.
Next up was the Manipuri stall where we tried dishes like the Manipuri salad singju, ooty (a special mashed cereal) and eromba (a dry fish with mashed potatoes, somewhat like a chutney).
Rohit Singh has been managing this stall for about 15 years and sometimes he enjoys cooking these dishes himself. 'There is no compromise on the traditional food items for which people come here,' he says.
From the Manipur stall, we walked out with a heavy stomach, and walked around for a while — partly to ease down the food and partly to figure out where we should be heading next.
Finally, we decided to sample some Kashmiri cuisine. So we walked into Wazwaan, which sells dishes from the state.
After much debating over the menu (because most of the dishes sounded delicious), we settled for rista (mutton meat balls) and goshtaba (spicier), drowning in the flavours and spices of Kashmir.
By the time we were done, we could barely get up from our seats. We could see stalls from Maharashtra, West Bengal, Nagaland, Sikkim, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and many others but we decided to save them for the next time. We' would advise you take it one stall at a time, next time you decide to take a tour of India's varied taste-buds.
The first food stall we ventured into was the Assam House where the aroma of the tea from Assam filled our senses. The Assam lemon tea was the perfect start to this culinary journey.
Next up was the Manipuri stall where we tried dishes like the Manipuri salad singju, ooty (a special mashed cereal) and eromba (a dry fish with mashed potatoes, somewhat like a chutney).
Rohit Singh has been managing this stall for about 15 years and sometimes he enjoys cooking these dishes himself. 'There is no compromise on the traditional food items for which people come here,' he says.
From the Manipur stall, we walked out with a heavy stomach, and walked around for a while — partly to ease down the food and partly to figure out where we should be heading next.
Finally, we decided to sample some Kashmiri cuisine. So we walked into Wazwaan, which sells dishes from the state.
After much debating over the menu (because most of the dishes sounded delicious), we settled for rista (mutton meat balls) and goshtaba (spicier), drowning in the flavours and spices of Kashmir.
By the time we were done, we could barely get up from our seats. We could see stalls from Maharashtra, West Bengal, Nagaland, Sikkim, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and many others but we decided to save them for the next time. We' would advise you take it one stall at a time, next time you decide to take a tour of India's varied taste-buds.
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