When people talk about scrumptious street food, one cannot forget mentioning Kolkata. A variety of gastronomic delights are available on the streets of Kolkata and that too for cheap. The city display a special attitude towards food, cooked and served hot on the streets. Every hook and corner of the city has stalls serving lip smacking dishes.
Despite the mushrooming of lavish restaurants and food courts, kolkatans, ranging from poor daily- wage labourers to MNC executives, take pleasure in trying out the road-side delicacies. No one is embarrassed of picking up a quick bite on streets. Rather, it’s a tradition to gulp down poochkas (golgappas) or munch jhaal-muri by the side of the busy crowded roads of Kolkata. It’s a part of Kolkata’s traditional culture to eat out on the street.
His street food is of a wide range. Students and office goers get bread-butter toast, omelette, puri –sabji as breakfast. And for lunch, one can start with vegetable soup, and end a four to five course meal, with sweets.
Food served between the traditional meal hours- chow mien, idly, dosa, uttapaam, ghoogni, bhelpuri, poochkaas, jhaal-muri and pakodas isalso high in demand.
The famous street food joints are located in central Kolkata, especially in the BBD Bagh, Dalhousie area , with the maximum number of central and state government offices, and banking , BPO worker and corporate establishment. Long stretch on Theatre Road Russell Street, Lord Sinha Road, Camac Street are famous for Paw-Bhaji and Moong Dal Vadas and Momo’s. Never forget to visit Dacres Lane. It has some of the best roadside food stalls in the city.
The latest entrants on the street stalls are the Tibetan Delicacies- Momo and Thukpa. Though the fillings in Momo is traditionally done with yak meat, kolkatans have learnt to replace yak meat with vegetables.
Similarly, Thukpa is a Tibetan noodle soup, usually served with meat. It is popular in Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal and in the Himalayan ranges in India. Both vegetarians and non vegetarians Thukpas are in high demand in Kolkata
The street food Kolkata is tasty yummy and cheap with great amount of taste and varieties and mouth watering dishes which can get you crazy with both vegetarian and non vegetarian taste.
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