Saturday, March 28, 2009

Halwa Puri (Ghalib Market)

When it comes to a Sunday morning in Lahore the hottest words are Halwa puri. Believe it or not its like a ritual of the place to have a halva puri on a Sunday morning for most us lahoris and we religiously follow it specially when we have a guest over outside the city, or friends over for the night or early morning Sunday cricket match or just a family holiday breakfast well see that’s what we mean when we say Halva Puri is synonymous to a Sunday morning in Lahore.

Just because this is one of the famous dishes of the city we have bunch loads of options but most of the good ones are in the interior city which seems to be a tedious job in itself, however there are a couple of good ones scattered around the city and me and my friends recently found one just in gulberg, Ghalib Market. Before anything I would say it was a beautiful cool breezy morning with the sun just pouring in mildly and the breeze making the green dance over you. Now in this kind of an aura you would love anything and so we did when our fresh puris reached the table. Funny thing about the lahoris, we attack it the moment it lands no matter if we are sitting at a dhaba or a fine dine its just our style and we say we know eating better than anyone. Maybe we are just keen to analyse the food or maybe we just love it too much to stay away. Hands down the puris were good above average compared to the best in town, the chanas were average and so was the halwa but surprisingly the chicken kachori was politely delicious. We ate without complains and a loads of laughter (noting about the food just personal jokes) but at all times keeping in my mind the responsibility of me bringing you my exact experience at the place. We followed it with tea from a neighboring tea stall, which was great and like I said the entire experience we had no complains. I suggest you pay a visit to the place, it deserves it specially due to the environment and the puris.

5 comments:

  1. haye!!! yummy i love halwa puri :) :)...da light fluffy puri with the spicy chanaz and achaar is the perfect breakfeast for sunday morning!! but i hate the oiliness and u cant escape from dis amazing duo even if ur on a diet! i wish dre was sum sorta low fat puri :p!! im gona try ghalib market halwa puri soon after this blog.

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  2. lol :P

    low fat puri...hahaha...saba your just nuts...

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  3. the veryyy picture of halva puri is making my mouth watery!:s Mueed you sure are doing a good job promoting various eat out places of this city. It is actually true, the fact that the word "nashta" is used interchangeably with "halva puri". It is a delicacy.The deeply fried puris drenched in oil, the carbohyderates and the high caloric sweet halva is loved by the multitudes even though diet concious people like me wont mind going out for nashta once in a blue moon and devouring halva puri. A heavy meal indeed. But a nice cup of hot tea or "paan" after the nashta would help in digestion "as they say". A glass of chilled lassi is the perfect combination to go with puri and channay.

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  4. lol nice nice halwa puri the name itself charge the taste buds :P although its a highhh calorie food as in the *puri* fullly fried and halwa full ov calories within itself is a pleasure to be enjoyed specially on sundays. Plus a glass ov lassi is always a bonus to be enjoyed along with spicy channas. Btw will try this ghalib market halwa puri..!!

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  5. good blog, need more search material to be published, add more links in your post, add blog roll, add tags in every post (labels)

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