Delhi’s comfort cuisine. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] This is restaurant food for those who get unsettled by the new–especially when it comes in the form of Manipuri or French cuisine, or some other similarly unfamiliar provincial/global style of cooking that becomes a star of the season. Since 1975, Daitchi restaurant in South Extension-II is serving Chinese, Thai and Japanese dishes—laced with Punjabi sensibilities. Every dish is deep fried and spicy. The cooking at Daitchi–the modest-looking eatery is claimed to be owned by the Bhutanese royal family–is homely. The vegetable manchurian resembles mother’s kele ka kofta, the spring roll is like her pakodis, and the honey chilli potato is not very different from mummy’s translation of MacDonald’s french fries. The restaurant’s dimly-lit ambiance