Eating Out in Delhi » East Asian

Momo’s affair

Shashank Kumar — Fri, 25 May 2007 01:26:24 +0000

Zero is not India’s greatest contribution to mankind, it’s the Manchurian. What, with all the jeera, dhaniya, and even garam masala it seems right from the heart of the Guangdong province, doesn’t it?

The Nepali kancha cooking chowmein in that pseudo-wok (essentially a kadhai) isn’t all that bad, I’ve realized. I’ve had the ‘real’ Chinese [...]

Tamura Onegaishimas …

Arnab Mukherji — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:18:27 +0000

Japanese food in “saadi dilli” is a bit of a rarity. In a largely vegetarian world, the demand for such food is low to begin with. Add to that the “eek” factor associated with raw fish, and then being affordable largely by the urban bourbon-drinking page 3 hip and plastic crowd, and you have a [...]

Momos at Majnu ka Tila

Hemanshu Kumar — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:12:12 +0000

… and at Defence Colony

Having been stymied in our quest for Haji Noora’s Nihari, Abhik and I were racing past ISBT en route to Chawri Bazaar, when it struck him that we should stop at the Tibetan colony at Majnu ka Tila. Abhik was in quest of Sukuti, or strips of dried [...]

Unofficial Field Trip, 25 October 2006: Overview

Hemanshu Kumar — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 05:30:56 +0000

The first unofficial EOiD field trip was undertaken by Abhik and me on October 25, 2006.

Having read great things about it from a newspaper column, we set out to locate Haji Noora’s Nihari shop in Bara Hindu Rao. This turned out easier said than done, for Bara Hindu Rao the area, is quite [...]