Old Delhi

Rahul takes you on a food-tour through Old Delhi.

Parking our car at Central Secretariat, we took the metro to Chawri Bazaar, where one suddenly ascends from the depth of a modern underground station into one of the most chaotic and crowded of Old-Delhi’s main markets. The contrast is really overwhelming, esp for someone knew to these areas. But our attention was not really on the rickshaw and cart-pullers and loads and loads of pedestrians. There is a small Chat shop called Kedara’s chatwala on the Chawri Bazaar main road, and I have craved for his aloo mutter chat ever since I can remember. So this is where we started our food tour in Old Delhi. The chat here is prepared using “proprietary� masala which this guy even sells in packets now. One must remember to tell him to put little or no chilly in the chat, if one is not habitual of “death by fire� experiences.