Kachori Wala outside Hanuman Mandir

I have been to this place innumerable times, all thanks to my mom-she introduced me to this stall.This kachori wala has not attracted any food website yet and the reviews also are very few in number, mostly by some newspapers who look out for such small stalls in the heart of the city. We ended up visiting this place on a Tuesday when the place was hell crowded.

It is outside Hanuman Mandir,Baba Kharag Singh Marg,Connaught Place. The stall is right under a huge tree but the easiest way to locate the stall is to walk till you find a huge mob of people eating away their blues. :P
The kachoris are priced reasonably, 15 INR for a single piece and 30 INR for a plate (2 pieces).Although they sell bread pakoras also at the same price but this review is all about kachoris.

Kachoris are crispy and are stuffed with hot and spicy masala. They are bigger than the kachoris we find in the renowned sweet and snack shops. Along with them, their famous aaloo ki sabzi is served which is a perfect combination of tomatoes and spices which makes it tangy and peppery. If you visit some local places like these to eat, you always find curries turning watery and tasteless after the first few hours of the sale but the quality here remains consistent and that is the reason they have regular customers.

I haven't tried their bread pakora's but yes the aroma reaches you even when you are steps away.I am not a die-hard fan of kachori's but if this is what I get, I don't mind.

As for the seating place, roam around, stand and eat or find some place around under the tree-explore the little bazaar behind hanuman mandir and beware of the monkeys.

-Sabzi is made many times in a day, no chance of eating up stale things.
-Not that oily.

Happy Eating!

Foodie's paradise- Chandni Chowk

When it comes to writing anything about food, I always start from the scratch and scratch here would obviously mean DELHI-6.It is highly advisable to reach the foodie's paradise through metro.Come out of the metro station and simply follow the crowd to locate a Gurudwara in front of you. Now, on your extreme right, you'll find shops selling jaleba's (Jalebi's elder brother).They sell those huge jalebi's for about 300-350 INR / kg.I asked for a 100 gms and all I got was just one jalebi, deeply fried in desi ghee and one could get a little taste of green cardamom.I won't say it was the best jalebi I had tasted as I would always prefer my jalebi's with a little saffron but this wasn't bad either, considering the reputation of the place.Nothing great.We could easily miss out this one.

Finding your way to the paranthe wali galli is just a cake-walk, everybody is eagerly ready to direct you.So, once you enter the small-little-dingy street, there are like 4-5 shops selling the paranthas but I have always preferred the shop at the left-corner, named- Pandit Kanhaiyalal & Durga Prasad Paranthe wale.The precise address is 36, Paranthe wali gali, Chandni chowk.

The shop sells a varied variety of paranthas. To name a few, mirchi, papad,daal, badaam, kaju, rabri, bhindi( hell, yeah!), tamatar, paneer, mix-vegetable parantha. They are served with 2 or 3 sabzi's usually seetafal ki sabzi and aaloo matar along with a sweet chutney, saunth as we know it with pieces of banana's in it. If you order a plate of parantha's, it becomes mandatory for you to order atleast 2 parantha's per plate.

As for the shop, it has two levels, 3 tables arranged at the lower one.The seating space is minimal but this does not affect their business at all.You would need to rush through your meal as the place is always over-crowded and people standing outside, waiting for a table.You can see a lot of framed photographs of celebrities with the shop owner, happily posing with those perfect round parantha's.

Visiting this place is fun during the winters, piping hot parantha's are served, deep fried in desi ghee, one after the other and You can't stop at just two parantha's, your taste buds crave for more. I would recommend papad and rabri. The prices are nominal ranging from 35-55 INR and a meal for two would not cost more than 250 INR. The parantha's are filling, scrumptious and crispy but would add up to a few more calories than you desire.They are smaller than a personal size pizza but are too heavy.Don't even think of taking up some parantha's home as they turn extremely soggy till you get back home.

For me it was an apt place to be regarded as value for money and a must for the food lover's.This was just about parantha's and jalebi, I'll soon come up with my reviews of more eating joints at Delhi-6.
Happy Eating!