Great weather; good time to step out for some street food. This is the stuff I grew up on, so I wouldn't quite recommend the same if you have reservations about eating off the streets and ending up with serious internal issues later. But I'll tell you, the food is fresh and as safe as any hotel or restaurant food. So out we stepped, three of us in a 'tuk-tuk' towards Darya Ganj. We reached with the traffic jam Old Delhi syncs with. Though the shops look better on the outside from what they did a decade back, the quirkyness it retains; 10-foot wide music shops showing off their electric guitars, funny hand gun lighters sold on the pavement and the day's madness manifested in the cussing... I love this! Delhi as I know it. There was a Royal Enfield retailer on the side Golcha cinema is, which seems to have shut shop now. We paced down the street towards Delhi gate side looking for a place to eat, though we had 'Tunde Kababs' in mind before we left. Tunde was closed for maintainence so we walked on. There is Moti Mahal and Zaika but the weather was way too awesome to get into and air-conditioned joint. That's when we spotted Mehta's, a small corner shop next to Golcha cooking and serving Chola Bhaturas, and Rabdi faluda. Stand and deliver thing. We got our plates and polished off the achar and onions on the pavement itself. Next we crossed the road and walked upto Prince Paan for their standard sweet paan and got back to work. Just the break we needed with the hectic work load that would consume us, with the achar and onions.
This blog is the first of its kind- from a taxi to work. Looks like this is the only way I can get around spending quality time now.
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