Kulle in Chawri Bazaar

Hemanshu Kumar — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:50:07 +0000

Chalk another one up for Shashank.

Several months ago, when the delicate evening chill meant you could look forward to winter rather than mourn its passing, we’d done a wonderful Navratra trip to Bazaar Sitaram and its precincts.

That’s when he’d dragged us to his favourite chaatwaala in Chawri Bazaar to show us [...]

Sandwiches in Raghuganj

Hemanshu Kumar — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:13:41 +0000

“Some fruity sandwiches?” asked Rahul Verma several months ago, and I promptly put my hand up.

We’ve mentioned how Delhi’s food is often descended from that of the mediaeval lashkars garrisoned around the forts of the capital. Today Shahjahanabad is home to an army of office-goers and shopkeepers [...]

Iftar at Jama Masjid

Hemanshu Kumar — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:23:34 +0000

It must be the age.

I can’t think of any other reason it took me a whole fortnight to figure out why I’d been looking at the world with such a jaundiced eye of late. Life had been toodling along quite nicely, until an EOiD plan in mid-September to visit

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 [...]

Ten out of Ten!

Hemanshu Kumar — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 08:45:00 +0000

[update: Ten has been closed since September 2007. This article may now be considered an epitaph.]

I used to think I knew every little nook and corner of central Delhi better than the back of my hand. So you can imagine how piqued my curiosity was, when Harneet first told me that right under my [...]

On a (Church) Mission to Fatehpuri Masjid

Hemanshu Kumar — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 05:33:00 +0000

As the summer flexes its muscles over the subcontinent, the mind harkens back to a “field trip” to the Fatehpuri Masjid area of old Delhi in early February. On a cold winter Sunday, four of us intrepid foodies found ourselves at the Chandni Chowk metro station, with an appetite braced by the early morning drizzle.

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A Night Stroll near Jama Masjid

Pankaj Molekhi — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:43:00 +0000

Delhi’s answer to Lahore Food Street

[ed: we are thrilled to present our first guest column, by journalist and fellow foodie Pankaj Molekhi. Hopefully, this is the first of many to come!]

1900 hours: This is a time when shopkeepers in Delhi begin to pull down shutters; treetops get abuzz with homeward-bound birds; and Blueline [...]

North Campus Delights

Hemanshu Kumar — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 08:31:00 +0000

On a sunny winter afternoon, led by our enthusiastic local guide Asmita, Harneet and I set out to try the many little gems tucked away in the by-lanes of Kamla Nagar, near the North Campus of the University of Delhi.

Our pilgrimage began, as it inevitably had to, with Chacha’s Chhole Bhature. Thanks to the [...]

Sona Sweets at Nehru Place

Hemanshu Kumar — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:14:00 +0000

“Nehru Place?!” you ask. I know, i know. Hardly the most obvious place to look for fine dining.

But heck, if all of puraani dilli‘s food has evolved from lashkari khana (food for army encampments), we should probably not ignore the battalions of office-goers whose collective lunch appetites keep a multitude of eateries in Delhi [...]

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 [...]

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