While Kolkata's street food is famed and delicious, it is known to consider considerable gastrointestinal distress to the untrained stomach, and even well-trained stomachs. So, my cousin and aunt decided to take Caitlin and me to Haldiram's for a more hygienic version of Indian street food and snacks.
Front, Left Tray - Chole Bhatura or curried chick peas with fried bread.
Front, Right Tray - On the left is Pav Bhaji--most popular in Maharashtra, including Mumbai--is bread with curried vegetables. On the right is dhokla, or a steamed snack made from chickpea flour, eaten with tamarind or mint chutney.
Back tray: Dosa--not really street food--but popular South Indian dish of rice crepe with sambar or spicy lentils.
While all of these are popular in Kolkata, we didn't have the most iconic of street food here: the phuchka, or small hollow fried breads, eaten with a stuffing of potatos and tamarind water.
However, here's a picture (courtesy of Caitlin) of a typical Bengali meal at home:
Along with rice, there is some spicy okra, fried poppy seed balls, daal--or lentils, this one made with bitter gourd--and finally some friend pomfret fish.
3 comments:
Consider my transcontinental act of shaming suspended. I hear you even have the next hunt item planned! Also, as a Southerner I want that fried okra....
@Susan: Done and done. :)
Ahhh, mail me some pomfret!!!!
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