Dining Out!

After Ghajini my family had a quick dinner in the food court of East Delhi Mall.

We availed 10% discount on Shanghai Food we after showing our PVR tickets according to their offer! We got chilly chicken from there as shown in the 3rd image above. It could have been made better if cooked more to make it soft (I guess! – sorry I can’t cook).

Along with this we also ordered the dish of the day- kadhai chicken from Indian Masala Curry adjacent to the Shanghai Food outlet. It was full of heavy cream and heavenly tasting gravy. I fell in love with it ...yummmm....

My brother like always got Chicken Tikka Pizza form Pizza Hut and Garlic bread. All 5 of us enjoyed the Garlic Bread and I went a step ahead in embarrassing my parents by applying gravy of kadhai chicken on it before letting my taste buds get the feel of it!
Ah! I like movies ... but love the meal after it.

Friendly Food!

This post does not contain any mention of the ingredients or preparation; it just needs a mention because my best friend made it for me! Monday morning on 29th December 2008 when I reached her place I got this welcome drink. (hahaha)
The picture shows juice of beetroot, carrot and other eatables which I don’t even remember. The juice had the right amount of thickness and sweet taste to make one ask for more. She gave me macaroni also but it wasn’t cooked by her so don’t expect any detail about it. After the stomach filling appetite we had a girl’s day out. (: P )

Schezwan

Even I confused these with momos. Schezwan are spicy and thinner version of momos according to the person who was selling these inside Spencer’s outlet on December 2008. After 4 hours of tiring shopping with my mom we got these packed and went back home. One plate served had 8 pieces of this non-vegetarian fare with a spoon of sweet and spicy red sauce.

This North Eastern specialty (of India) would have tasted better if I had shown less excitement towards the shopping I did that day! (lol)

Kurkure

The famous chai time snack according to Juhi Chawla who promotes Kurkure advertisements on television. My grandfather got it for me and my 2 younger siblings on 27th December 2008. The image shows Masala Munch(Spice) Flavor. These dark orange color sticks are crunchy enough to let the sound come out while you enjoy its taste in every bite.

I remember few years back Kurkure launched Hyderabadi Flavor in green packets (which happen to be my favorite color!). After tasting that flavor I could never come back with the same affection towards this Masala one available almost everywhere.
If you are an Indian I am sure you must have tasted these at least once in your life, for the rest you need to shell out only 5/10/20 INR according to the size of packet you want to gulp in!

Doodh Peda

Again this comes from Hyderabad, a special sweet from the city as my cousin says. This came packed in a white plastic sweet box. The box had 3 layers of partition of butter paper, each layer filled with the milk (doodh) sweet. Apart from the color with every bite I felt the milk-cake (another very popular sweet) type taste in this peda. It for sometime (till the stock lasts as many people say) has become my breakfast and evening snack.
Image Dated: 27 December 2008

Hyderabadi Biryani

My dad went to Hyderabad, the city famous for its Biryani for some official purpose.
While coming back he got us biryani packed from the domestic airport. On 24th December I binged on the chicken biryani and left mutton biryani for my siblings (yes I don’t like mutton).

The colour gave a confused mixed feel of royal as well as street preparation of the dish. With first bite one could get the sour taste of added lemon flavour: Point to be noted that southern part of India adds lot of lemon flavour in their dishes and Hyderabad is not far from south if you try to locate it on the map of my country.
The biryani serves you ample amount of rice to for serving 2 people with two pieces of chicken. Instead of buying one at the airport I would recommend you to get into the streets for the real mouth watering delicacy of Hyderabad.

Kamby Neembu Toffee

What a wonderful start with a local manufactured candy in Gwalior!

My grandfather got it as prasad from the guruji we follow. One of their main temples is near Gwalior located in central India. One can get the taste of nembu (lemon) flavour as soon as your tongue licks it (probably because our taste buds are most sensitive for the sour taste at the tip of out tongue).
On 15th December 2008 its one bite made me taste a soft covering which transcended to the inner hard actual toffee (don’t forget the local made tag).
Its wrapper read the following: (Including the Spelling errors)
Kwality Food Product Gwalio-4
Sugar Boiled Confectionary Contains Permitted Synthetic Colours and Added Flavours!
In case you ever get the chance of having this toffee I would say-Enjoy chewy crust!
As they say – It happens only in India!