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THE VOYAGE TO PURANI DILLI

After countless hours of calling and counter calling (mostly by Mr.Patnaik we had finally agreed to go to old Delhi. The entourage consisted of pattu,ajay ji,joshi, and yours truly.So we boarded the metro in the afternoon and got ready for debauchery(i had prepared by not eating anything for breakfast ,and by having a very frugal dinner last night ,and also by popping two Direx pills, to keep the old tummy in shape). Well we come out of the metro station into the horrible oppressing heat and come into the hustle-bustle, and congestion which defines old Delhi, and we all look up to Patnaik to ask him where we are going(since this was his plan, and he planned to stop at a shit load of places before the day got over(the only that would have happened would have been if we actually had stopped to shit at loads of place, if you catch my drift) ,and lo and behold he’s got his hands spread heavenwards as if asking for gods help, only after two minutes do we come to realize that he’s got a cell phone in his hands and is trying to catch a signal ,so that he can access his gps,and find the way to first stop(the kulfi place).



Now my take on old Delhi is that you wont realize what a great place it is if you use your gps, the only true way to do it is to meander through the maze of gallis and randomly chance upon some hidden treasures, but since it was bloody 45 degrees Centigrade! and since it was patnaik's plan in the first place we decide to humor him and we land up at the first stop on our journey-Kuremal kulfi bhandar
Now to be honest when u hear about kulfi’s having exotic flavours like rabri, pan, aijwain etc, you are bound to get your expectations up . So we decided to taste as many kulfi’s as we could, and we ordered mango, pan, litchi, phalsa,rabri,aam panna and some more. To be honest the famed mango kulfi did not seem to be too great to me, and mean it was good, but not something that blew my mind.I felt all the kulfis were deadened(with sugar) a bit too much, and all the fruit based kulfi were lacking the punch. The phalsa kulfi was very very crappy (I mean if ive had better phalsa kulfi at nathus near the zoo). Of all the available kulfis I liked the aam panna kulfi the best, it explodes in your mouth and I think it’s a must try if you go there, even the pan wali kulfi is interesting, however unlike the usual old Delhi fare, this was a bit heavy on the pocket with each kulfi costing about 30 bucks.























By this time I was very hungry, and I wanted to go to karims and eat. But on the way patnaik made us stop to eat some so called old Delhi specialty called kulle aloo ke(which is basically a hollowed out aloo filled with chat masala and garam masala) .Now after eating eat I think I have some idea of what ass would taste like I mean I have never tasted anything so vile in my life. This guy has the gall (as wells as the balls) to give us boiled potato and chat masala and ask us to pay 30 rs for it. I mean the only way I can imagine somebody coming back to eat there once more would be because the first time he did ,the huge amount of chat masala had burned off all his taste buds.























After eating the crapiest piece of crap ever we finally headed over to karims. Now anybody who has ever said “I love da chicken(or any other meat variate)” has eaten at karims at least once. So I won’t go too much into the nitty grittys. The mutton burra was fabulous as usual, the masala of that is amazing, though I think it’s better to avoid the chicken burra. The seekh kebabs as usual were just okay nothing out of the ordinary. For the first time in my life I found the korma lacking(actually it the opposite of lacking, It had too much mirchi ,a good korma due to the bhunni hui pyaz is supposed to have a sweet tinge to it which was washed away by the heavy mirchi),the mutton stew was totally on the ball,it was lovely. The khamiri roti could have been a bit softer ,but the sheermal(bakarkhani) was lovely . I did miss the lovely tandoori machili they do in the winters (it is a must have ,and I think is one of the best ways to eat machili,though some of my Bengali friends disagree(they prefer their own style(all I can say is that they are a bunch of boka chodas)))




































































Clockwise : Karims, Chicken Qorma, Khamiri Roti, Mutton Burra, Mutton Stew(Ishtoo).



After eating a shit load of good food, there was only one way to end this trip, and that was at a shit pot.
Until next time.


Directions:
Get down at Sitaram Bazaar, and follow the map(attached below, all the places are mentioned in this eoid recommendations maplet) if you can, otherwise after you enter S bazaar ask the shopkeepers for kuremal, he's well known in the ares, and here's the imp. thing, some shop keepers will direct you to a shop which has it's shutters down, but proclaims itself as kuremal kulfi bhandaar, this is not the place, keep going ahead in the galli and ask again, the real shop is a little way down, after taking a galli to the left, its located near a jain temple, and yeah there's no siting, it's literally a hole in the wall shop.
The Kuliya will fall on the left side of the road as you go from chawri bazaar metro station to jama masjid, and finding karim's is a piece of cake, every one seems to know the place.


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