Streets of the City of Joy

If it is street food you are looking for, Kolkata is the place to be. Talk about street foods and you cannot just miss out on Kolkata! Instead of the fact that there has always been an increase in the number of food courts and restaurants in India

Streets vendors with their assortment of lip-smacking delicacies can be found easily at any place in Kolkata, where people gather. While the school students enjoy the phuchkas, jhaal muri, crispy bhelpuri etc, the office-goers on the other, feed themselves with chowmin, ghoogni, Puri Sabji, chop and many more.  

For the foodies, Kolkata comes with a wide variety of amazing delights at almost every corner of the city. Offering an unending buffet, the Kolkata street food would tempt you to the core and leave asking for more! The reason for this could be anything from cheap price, fast service, and scarcity of time to variety of eateries!

If you want the best street food to eat then please these are the best place of Kolkata where street is known for its street food and you have not to wait a single moment to take your favorite food and eat in your mouth .The street just outside the AC Market is a wonderful place to hangout with family or friends. After a tiring shopping spree at the AC Market, you would surely feel hungry! All you need to do is step out of the market and find a suitable food stall for yourself, by the road side. Have a bite of the pav bhaji or taste the phuchkas, jhaal muri, papri chat or bhel puri. You can find here thing like“chana garam” as the vendors bawl for it!

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Some other places also where your foot will not stop to go there for the famous street food is park street, Camac street,Russell street, BBD bagh etc, For the food lovers, is the place to be in, while in Kolkata. You would hardly be able to resist yourself from having the moong dal vadas served with chilli garlic or pudina chutney.

When it comes to food, name it and you would get it in the streets of the City of Joy! Be it phuchka, snacks, jhalmuri or chat, Chinese items like chowmein and chili chicken, Tibetan eateries such as momo, thupka or south Indian food like idli, dosa etc, you would get it all in Kolkata. We bet, you would keep coming back for more! Street Food in Kolkata is high on taste yet low on cost!

From the flavor of Kolkata cuisine…….

As we know that Kolkata is famous for its culture, traditional and happening place, but most important thing its yummy and delicious foods really it is too good. As I spend my graduation period I felt that how much Kolkata people are so fascinate about their foods, especially when we are talking their famous fish and the varieties of fish finding there.

Fish is one of the favorite food among the Kolkata’s people and Bengali , its define their foodie nature . when we are talking about fish it’s important to know that More than forty types of mostly freshwater fish are common, including carp varieties like rui (rohu), koi (climbing perch), the wriggling catfish family of tangra, magur, shingi and the pink-bellied Indian butter fish, the pabda (katla) magur (catfish), chingŗi (prawn), as well as shuţki (small dried fish). Chingri could be of varieties - kucho (varieties of shrimp), usual (prawns), bagda (tiger prawns), and galda (Scampi).

Salt water fish (not sea fish though) hilsa (hilsa ilisha) is very popular among Bengalis, can be called an icon of Bengali cuisine. Ilish maach (hilsa fish), which migrates upstream to breed is a delicacy.

There are numerous ways of cooking fish depending on the texture, size, fat content and the bones. It could be fried, cooked in roasted, a simple spicy tomato or ginger based gravy (jhol), or mustard based with green chillies (shorshe batar jhaal), with posto, with seasonal vegetables, steamed, steamed inside of plantain or butternut squash leaves, cooked with doi (curd/yogurt), with sour sauce, with sweet sauce or even the fish made to taste sweet on one side, and savory on the other.

Therefore the Bengali cuisine is famous in all over the world for its delicious fish as called maache jhol bhaat so if you are missing to not tasted try it by making in your home as this video showing.

                        Hilsa fish recipe