Kolkata’s cuisine - yummy and cheap, probably the cheapest in the world. When people talk about delicious street food, one cannot forget mentioning Kolkata. Even now a lunch of rice, dal and sabji, can come for as little as Rs.10 in Kolkata. The city displays a special attitude towards food, cooked and served hot on the streets. Every nook and corner of the city has stalls serving taste dishes. Despite the mushrooming of lavish restaurants and food courts, Kolkata’s, ranging from poor daily-wage labourers to MNC executives; take pleasure in trying out the road-side delicacies. People have named the city as the Gastronomic Capital of India because Kolkata’s traditional culture is to eat out on the streets.
Street vendors with tasty delicacies to serve can be easily encountered in and around the schools, colleges, office areas, and at other places where people congregate. The street food is of a wide range. 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 and corporate establishments. Long stretches on Theatre Road, Russell Street, Lord Sinha Road, Camac Street are famous for paw-bhaji and moong dal vadas. The downtown areas of Esplanade or Chowringhee never forget to visit Dacres Lane. It has some of the best roadside food stalls in the city.
Key elements of Kolkata's cuisine include rice and macher jhol, with Rasgulla as dessert. Bengal's vast repertoire of fish-based dishes includes various hilsa preparations. Street foods like rolls, jhalmuri, chat items and phuchka are very popular. Common support to Puchka is things dishes like Churmur, Ghugni. A Bengali meal is incomplete without sweets. Popular sweets include rossogollas, mishti doi, langcha, kheerkadam, sandesh, rajbhog, kamala bhog, etc
The latest entrants on the street stalls are the Tibetan delicacies- Momo and Thukpa. Momo is a type of dumpling from Tibetan. Kolkata’s have learnt to replace yak meat with chicken and vegetables while filling momo. 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 vegetarian and chicken Thukpas and momo are in high demand in Kolkata not only for Tibetan but also for other people.
One of the best places in Kolkata to have Puchkas, Jhalmuri and other chaat items is located on the East Metropolitan Bypass You will see a slew of vendors dotting the street just beyond this landmark, cooking in front of you some of the most popular street foods of Kolkata. Kolkata’s foods have a great variety of tasty and cheap foods. The first bite itself will cast a spell on peoples and peoples will find yourself thirsting for more with each successive bite.
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