And definitely the best and most fun way is to go with Himanshu Verma of the Red Earth Project. www.redearthindia.com
This wasn't your typical tour through Old Delhi's Chandni Chowk - we walked, ate, talked, ate, had a flower fight on bicycle rickshaws, then ate some more!
We met up at the far end of Chandni Chowk near the Fatehpuri mosque and headed straight to the Khari Baoli, the largest spice market in Asia. You know you're in the neighborhood when you start sneezing from all the spices in the air! Anything and everything including a lot of unidentifiable things are available here, it's fascinating! |
| Saltwallah - black salt and pink Himalaya salt along with the normal white variety! Don't know what the stuff that looks like clods of dirt is... |
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| Phoolwallah with his genda phool |
Himanshu is passionate about flowers and is fighting to keep Delhi's idiotic government from closing down the neighborhood flower markets (check out his website for more info) so he took us on a quick detour up a narrow flight of steep stairs to a small flower market completely hidden away from the craziness on the street below.
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| I generally prefer that the chef's feet are more than 5 inches away from my food ... |
By then we were getting hungry so we went for stuffed naan at Kake di Hatti. We got paneer and potato. They're cooked in a tandoor oven and as it was about 100 degrees out I felt sorry for the poor guy who sits on top of the tandoor cooking these things all day long! They were pretty good although I thought there was too much raw ginger and they could have used some more seasoning - the flavoring was kind of bland except for the ginger.
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| ... then I noticed the guy grinding the spices in a hole in the sidewalk |
Stay tuned for the chaat, kulfi, paranthas and more in part 2
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