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Wo Ai Chi

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“‘Chow mein’ – What? What’s that?” This was exactly the reaction from two of my Chinese friends, Hao Tong and Mei Shuangqingzi, when they heard this word. And thus I came to know there is nothing called Chow mein, Momo, Fied rice in their dictionary ( read in China ). Funny, but true it is! Being a Kolkatan and growing up seeing so many Chinese food joints around, it is really tough to believe that all these ‘Chinese’ foods are not ‘Chinese’ at all. In China they have noodles, dumplings, rice. But those are pretty different from ours. To be precise, they are absolutely different from the foods we have here in so called famous ‘Chinese’ restaurants. But, be it genuine Chinese or Indian version of Chinese, we don’t have any problem in exciting our taste-buds  with those salty, overtly oily ‘chow mein’ or those white rice turned into ‘fried rice’ by simply frying or even the half-baked momo. Also, in the context of the recent incidents ( read Doklam ), whatever...
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Afghani Platter from Arsalan

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It's the festive season and a great time for the foodies like us. An afternoon with Biryani is a must thing in this season. Although we Kolkatans are die hard fan of Biryani of Arsalan, still for the sake of taste-twist this time we opted for Afghani Pulao. Initially, we though it must be a non-veg dish, but proving us wrong, it arrived as a veg platter. A mouth watering sweet and salty rice platter you may say. The royal white Afghani Pulao contains lots of pineapples and peas along with other veggies. It is said that this pulao was actually introduced by Afghan immigrants living in Saudi Arabia. To complement this exotic dish, we ordered Mutton Tikka Butter Masala with the Afghani Pulao. The pair of buttery rice platter and red hot mutton dish was absolutely great to our taste buds and to the pocket at the end of the month as well. 😉 No wonder, Biryani is an emotion! But, the emotion can be easily diverted to this mouth watering veg platter. The change and aro...
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Location: 1693/A Laskar Road Anandapur, School Ruby Hospital Area, Kolkata, West Bengal 700107, India
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Alhamdulillah, Aminia...

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Hello pals!  Eid Mubarak  to everyone. And this time we were dining out at Aminia, New Market, Kolkata with our Chinese friends from Edinburgh. Quite a multi-cultural, multinational affair indeed. Now, we were so hungry that we even started seeing the crescent moon in the chicken leg piece or in the semi-finished (Read  'semi circled' ) Phirni that someone was having just by our table. We ordered one  Chicken Biryani  and one special  Awadhi Biryani , along with  Chicken Handi  to pacify our ever hungry taste-buds. Amidst of the arousing aroma, the heavenly  Haleem  eaters surrounded by, we were eagerly waiting for our own destiny to come. And after a while when it reached us, our taste-buds became succulent to dive into the plateful of ecstasy. We just did not eat, we made love with the food! We tasted the heavenly beauty in the plate. After the main course, it was time for dessert. Yes, lip smacking  Kesar...
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Location: 6A, S N Banerjee Road, Near Elite Cinema, Kolkata, West Bengal 700087, India
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Au Délicieux 'Augratine'

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Think about a bowl full of soft and tiny chicken pieces, dipped in thick cheese sauce. Yes I know, by now you are making that sound, slurp! But wait, there are more. It had small pieces of baby corn, mushrooms and a greater amount of butter also. Yeah, it’s that lethal combination to take your calorie count sky high. But, who cares about calorie, when you have such an amazingly aromatic dish in front of you? Not we. The entire thing is golden baked, smells so good and the upper part gets a slightly hard layering making the food yummier. So, this is called the ‘Augratine’ , something that South Kolkata restaurant has named it with inspiration from the French delicacy ‘Au Gratin’ . So, we had it with another delicacy, thick mushroom soup. Dense… Soft… Buttery… Slurping. No wonder, these are enough to give you a foodgasm for sure! 
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Location: 131/2, Southern Ave, Beside HDFC Bank, Golpark, Kolkata, West Bengal 700029, India
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Silk Route to Heart via Taste Buds

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As there is an old saying, the shortest route to your heart is through your stomach, we have been following the saying religiously. We do not consider it as the shortest, but call it 'our' Silk Route . So, we decided to hit as much as possible food joints in the 'City of Joy' and everywhere else we visit! Well, not all of them, but certainly all of them that serve something extra ordinary without bombing the pocket. Hence, we ended up starting our food dates. It’s been more than three years, these food dates are continuing. It’s a nexus, involving two always-hungry souls, good foods, good drinks and of course all those narrow, not-so-spacious restaurants welcomed us with their hands wide open. Oh, let’s mention about those street-side phuchkawalas too, who helped us in breaking the ice after a fight with that 'handcrafted' (forget about dirty hands and dirty water) flavour. If you are a Bengali, and you are in a relationship with an epicu...
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