kolkata culture with fun and masti

It is fun to explore the culture of Kolkata India. Over here, the days begin with a cup of tea and thereafter people leave from their houses to enjoy the morning breeze. They carry out their fitness workout consisting of walking, jogging, stretching etc. Bengal offers a mind-blowing variety of sweets and yummy mouthwatering dishes.

Kolkata is truly a city of talent and passion, where people are lively and have an enthusiasm to live life to the fullest. If you want to get well versed with the Kolkatta culture, the best way is to look out for a friend over there and join adda i.e. the local parlance where chat sessions are held. Discussions take place on a wide variety of subjects ranging from politics, sports, religion, news, books, art, films, music, food etc. The discussions are healthy and never end with arguments or an ugly note. 

Bengalis are very fond of music. Infact, if you go about visiting houses in the neighborhood, you'll find that there is an aspiring singer in almost every home. Bengalis love to indulge in yummy food. Infact, every meal ends up with some delicious dessert. For people who love eating junk food, Calcutta is just an apt place.  

Festivities are an integral part of the city. Calcutta hosts a variety of fairs, film fests, music conferences and folk fairs. It houses the Marwaris, Parsis, Anglo Indians, Jews, Armenians and the joyous people of China town. Kolkata has a plethora of tourist attraction places encompassing museums, galleries, heritage buildings, amusement parks, temples, churches and synagogues.  

Popular Restaurants in Kolkata

With tourism flourishing in Kolkata, Popular restaurants in Kolkata are mushrooming. Starting from local cuisines, oriental, Chinese, Mexican, Swiss, Thai, Tibetan, Mughlai all are readily available in the popular restaurants. Not only to a foreigner but a person residing in Kolkata needs a food guide as it is otherwise impossible to know which the popular restaurants in Kolkata are.

To a tourist, the Bengali cuisines are hot favorite. A food guide will tell you where to have Illish macher pathuri, or bhetki fry or for that matter any ethnic Bengali cuisines. Fish is a delicacy and so are the desserts in Kolkata.

Aheli, Aradhana, Kewpie's Kitchen, Pakhwan, Prince, Shatabdi, Suruchi, Sutanoti, are the best known places to savor some of the best conventional delicacies.
Bijoli grill is the best place to have fish fry and other fast food.  K.C. Das is a superb choice for having the special sweetmeat, rossogolla, of Kolkata.
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Kebab, Mughlai, tandoori, biriyani are found in the popular restaurants in like Aminia, Bar B Q, Bedwin, Mocambo, Rahamania, Royal Indian, Tandoor, Upper Crust, and Nizam's .
Kolkata is popular for continental, Cantonese, Chinese, Thai, oriental, Mexican, Swiss, Tibetan foods also. A foreigner will not feel like a fish thrown out of water as it hosts the popular restaurants that serves you authentic international cuisine.


A food guide of popular restaurants in kolkata is a don't-miss to every tourist. So don't forget it!

Bengali recipe style

The following are a list of characteristic Bengali recipe styles Each entry here is actually a class of recipes, producing different dishes depending on the choice of ingredients.

Jhal : Literally, hot. A great favorite in West Bengali households, this is made with fish or shrimp or crab, first lightly fried and then cooked in a light sauce of ground red chilli or ground mustard and a flavoring of pach-pouron or kalo jira. Being dryish, it is often eaten with a little bit of dal pored over the rice   

Posto : anything cooked with poppy seed paste as the main flavoring agent. Often poppy seed paste with some mustard oil is eaten mixed with rice all by itself as a mild beginner for any Bengali meal.

Torkari : A general term often used in Bengal the way `curry' is used in English. The word first meant uncooked garden vegetables. From this it was a natural extension to mean cooked vegetables or even fish and vegetables cooked together.

Shukto : A favorite Bengali palate cleanser, made with a lot of different vegetables including at least one bitter veg, simmered with a hint of sugar and milk to bring out the bitterness of the fresh vegetables.

Bhorta : Any vegetable, such as potatoes, beans, sour mangoes, papaya, pumpkins or even dal, first boiled whole and then mashed and seasoned with red shallot, fresh chile, mustard oil/ghee and spices.

Bhaate : A vegetable, that has been put inside the pot in which rice is cooking, and it has been cooked along with the rice. Generally, you get potatoes, butternut squash, raw papayas, bitter gourd, snake gourd and okra in the rice. Bengalis often eat it with a tinge of mustard oil and salt. However, a very popular one-dish Bengali meal is Alu Bhaate Bhaat, which is Potatoes boiled along with rice, and then served along with the rice.  

Ombol or Aum-bol (also known as Tok) : A sour dish made either with several vegetables or fish, especially fish bones. The souring agent is usually tamarind pulp, unripe mango and sometimes amla or amloki is used. Curd, though a souring agent occasionally used with non-vegetarian dishes, will not be called ombol. It is served at the end of the meal as a kind of digestive, and to cleanse the palate

Mishti kolkata

Bengali traditional food, especially the yummy mouthwatering sweets are popular all over India. Sweets occupy an important place in the diet of Bengalis and at their social ceremonies. Without sweets their diet will not complete. As we know that Bengalis and Kolkata both are famous for their sweetness, mishti like their sweets and their nature. Therefore every sweets is famous in Kolkata but some of the sweets when we called it known as Bengalis sweets . and they are special in their own way

So let’s taste that some of the famous sweets of Kolkata …..

Shôndesh

 Made from sweetened, finely ground fresh channa shôndesh in all its variants is among the most popular Bengali sweets. The basic shôndesh has been considerably enhanced by the many famous confectioners of Bengal, and now a few hundred different varieties exist, from the simple kachagolla to the complicated abar khabo, jôlbhôra or indrani.

Rôshogolla

Roshogolla is one of the most widely consumed sweets. The basic version has many regional variations. When we talked about Kolkata the first name is come out with our mouth is rassogulla it’s a origin of the Kolkata and the most famous sweet of bengalis . Rôshogolla is one of the three most prominent trademark of Bengali culture (along with Rabindranath Tagore and the festival of Durga Puja) and probably the face of Bengali cuisine to people outside Bengal.

Piţha or pithe

In kolkata the tradition of making different kinds of pan-fried, steamed or boiled sweets, lovingly known as piţhe or the "pitha", still flourishes. These little balls of heaven symbolizes the coming of winter, and the arrival of a season where rich food can be included in the otherwise mild diet of the Bengalis... the richness lie in the creamy silkiness of the milk which is mixed often with molasses, or jaggery made of either date palm or sugarcane, and sometimes sugar. They are mostly divided into different categories based on the way they are created. Generally rice flour goes into making the pithe.  

There are lots of varieties of  sweets which you will get there like chhanar jileepi, kalo jam, darbesh, raghobshai, paesh,bundiya ,nalengurer shôndesh, shor bhaja, and an innumerable variety are just a few examples of sweets in Bengali cuisine.

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