Kolkata, the city of joy has many things to offer to local residents and tourist. Food is of course one of the major best part of this metropolitan city like most others cities in India. Kolkata offers a large variety of food options. But Kolkata is best known for its Bengali cuisine.
Kolkata is the best place for street food, in fact any food.
Kolkata is that city where anyone can have a filing meal for Rs 10 to Rs 10,000.
Every Indian would agree that the most convenient and the least expensive food available, in the country, is street food. All age groups love the pleasure that this food provide to their taste buds. Evert states has its own flavors to serve in their form of street food. It would be right to say that the menu remains almost the same, but the taste becomes different.
If Kerala is known for the south Indian foods like dosa, idli etc, Rajasthan for its thali, Kolkata is surely famous for its street food.
A trip to city of joy is incomplete if you don’t stand and eat road side.
Pani puri, puchka, golgappa, and gupchup whatever you would like to call it………….
It surely brings water in mouth even the thought of it brings the image of ‘Thela walas’ and stalls come to your mind and there is an urgent urges to have spicy, tangy, and crispy and thirst satisfying puchka.
Puchka is not just a street food in India. It is somewhat a part of our cultural identity. It is different to find an Indian who does not dribble over puchka.
Puchka is only common term for this India street food. It is known by various names and made differently across the length and breadth of India like Pani Puri in Mumbai, Puchka in Kolkata, Fulki in Madhya Pradesh, Pani k bateshey in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and Golgappe in Delhi.
Puchka it is found at every corner of the city and trust it or not everyone from beggar to billionaire love it. Puchka is the best street food you can have in Kolkata on every season like hot summer day, rainy day, a gloomy day, basically a day you want your mood to be refreshed.
It is cheap, and it is easily available and it is the most delightful thing. It is nearly impossible to miss a vendor selling puchka in Kolkata.
The name puchka literally means “water in fried bread”
Puchka are nothing but small hollow round puri, fried crisp and filled with potatoes, cooked peas mixed with Indian spices and dipped in chilled tamarind water.
Puchka you will find them probably at all major joints in the city. Though good one’s are at Russell Street, Hindustan park, outside South city mall
Puchka has found support by hakims and vaidh. According to them, if Puchka is prepared properly then they can take care of stomach related disorders for e.g.:- acidity, indigestions etc. The WHO has also certified that the best street food available anywhere is in Kolkata.
No comments:
Post a Comment