aka Om Routray
Kolkata has a biryani that it is really proud of. I have never been to the city, so can’t say how good the dish is within the city boundaries. So, I have to go by the second best option – go to CR Park and pretend I am transported to the bong land like most bongs do. And, that’s how we landed at this small outlet in CR Park market number 1. It is more of a take away kind of place with few plastic…Continue Reading “Kolkata Biryani House, CR Park”
The first two and a half decades of my life, I had only veg biryani. You may stop giving any credence to this post right here and stop reading. If you are still reading, let me pile more shame on myself. Apart from the biryani at the Hyderbad stall in Dilli Haat, I can’t remember a single other instance when the biryani was horrible, disgusting and offensive. I have been trying to grow a nose that smells the trashy ones from the one good biryani…Continue Reading “The unicornification of biryani”
This is not a biryani vs. pulao debate. We will have that debate when we meet over some coffee and hockey sticks. Anyway, it just seems that statistically on more occasions I love the pulao over the biryani. The simple chana dal Qabuli from UP is cooked without meat and is one of my most favourite pulaos. I had this other pulao in Old Delhi last night. At a home, not in a restaurant. The chicken was cooked separately in yakhni which had whole spices,…Continue Reading “Biryani or Pulao?”