by Madhushree Basu Roy | Sep 29, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
Kolkata Style Chowmein tastes like memory. In our Pandel’er Pet Pujo series, we’ve walked from phuchka to chicken roll, phuchkawala alur dom, chow chow, and fish fry. Today it’s egg chowmein, the plate you’d grab on the way home, the one that made a long day better....
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Sep 29, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
Durga Puja is the time when Bangalis just go berserk in planning for their pet-pujo. For the uninitiated, pet-pujo stands for worship of the stomach, or basically hunger. So we mostly have our meals planned out. Ashtami lunch will be khichuri bhog. Shashti breakfast...
by Anindya | Sep 26, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
When you hear Kolkata, most people think of trams, the Hooghly river, adda sessions over chai, and of course, that iconic street food—the Kolkata roll. Among the many varieties, I say this jokingly R for Rasogolla and R for roll. The egg roll and Kolkata chicken roll...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Sep 24, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
In layman’s language, muri ghonto is a traditional Bengali dish made with fish head and rice. It’s not puffed rice (muri is also the term for puffed rice) But is it just that or there is more in the layers of flavours that bring it together? The fish head...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Sep 21, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
Excerpt from The Best Kolkata Phuchka …….Just like its politics, football, cinema and songs, Kolkata gets divided over its phuchka too. For the unknown, the Phuchka is Kolkata’s version of Paani Puri but just like the famous Chinese dishes in Kolkata have...
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