Comments on: City Food – Motichoor Laddu, Ghantewala Halwai

By: Chris Chopp

Chris Chopp — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 22:24:49 +0000

Looking scrumptious. It almost looks like one could reach into the screen and pull a fresh laddu out from your pic. Thanks for tempting the readers so much

By: Zee Ke

Zee Ke — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:45:44 +0000

waaaaah Bhai waah,moonh meetha ker lo ji

By: Vishal

Vishal — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 06:40:38 +0000

ha ha ha … amazing logic …

By: Vishal

Vishal — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 06:39:59 +0000

Too bad mate … u had GHANTA (crappy) experience with GHANTA-wala … they are just proving their name.

By: Vishal

Vishal — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 06:38:53 +0000

@MAS: Bhai, re: your comments int related post about “City Food – Mathura ka Peda, Kucha Pati Ram” that no food is named after Delhi … could the following pass as food named after Delhi ..

Butter Chicken and Dal Makhani invented by Moti Mahal in Daryaganj founded by Kundan Lal Gujral (which was once the only restaurant of Old Delhi) or Devi ke Kulche (not sure about this one???)

Another notable modern restaurant is Chor Bizarre near Delite cinema, which serves Kashmiri cuisine. [5]
In addition to this, Darya Ganj is known to all Delhiites for the food you can get here. From the Baniyaan of Gupta ji, to Devi ke Kulche,

By: Matka

Matka — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 03:27:59 +0000

Like the Soup Nazi in New York, we have Sweets Nazis in India.

By: Anand

Anand — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:00:50 +0000

There seems to be a tradition among sweet shops all over India for rudeness. Grand Sweets in Chennai was famous for the quality of it sweets and the rudeness of the staff. One theory I have is that ruder the store staff, the higher the expectation of quality in the customer population.

By: Matka

Matka — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 05:38:51 +0000

I think, not the shopkeepers, but only their anti-customer attitude should be crushed, but their products and stores should still be available for future generations to enjoy.

By: Naushirvan

Naushirvan — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 16:44:44 +0000

looks like you had a brush with reality…most of the ‘purani dukanwallahs’ are like that.
Thank goodness for all the malls,hypermarkets and convenience stores that seem to be supplanting the traditional Indian ‘dukaan’. Entire generations have grown up not knowing what it is like to have a decent shopping experience. Back in the old days, you were supposed to stand on the wrong side of the counter and take what the dukanwallah handed out to you in his infinite benevolence. You had to take it or leave it. The average customer had very little to choose from. Add to that the snide remarks,the condescending behavior and disingenuous manner of the dukanwallah. It was the antithesis of what one expects nowadays.
I really hope all those terrible shopkeepers are crushed beneath the triumphant march of the new crop of customer-friendly stores. I would love to watch them squirm and squeal( does that make me a bad person?)

By: Dr Vee

Dr Vee — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 05:58:24 +0000

i heard about this mithaai shop in William Dalrymple’s City of Djinns. Went there to seek a Pakistani punjabi mithaai (called ‘Tosha’ ) that i loved to eat wjile i grew up in a small sleepy indian border town called Fazilka (Fazilka’s elders are refugees from gujranwala and pakpattan , west punjab ). Not only didthe Ghantawaaala people not have that mithaai, they had the temerity to sarcastically claim that i can’t get that mithaai from India . They were also rude and I expected a better ambience and much better sohan halwa that i was provided. 200 year old shop ,huh ?