City Food – Khajla, Old Delhi Food by The Delhi Walla - April 1, 20240 Taste of ramzan. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] A hand reaches out in the night sky, plucks the full moon, plunges it into a cauldron full of hissing hot oil. The moon swells up, turning brown. You may now eat it. Rustled out of maida and ghee, this is the sweet flaky khajla, which does look like a deep-fried moon. It pops up briefly each year, during ramzan, when Muslims fast from dawn to dusk. This being one of the days of the sacred month, khajla is adorning numerous eateries and stalls, especially those that surround the city mosques—the Jama Masjid in Gurugram’s Sadar Bazar, the Jama Masjid in south Delhi’s Zakir Nagar, and the historic Jama Masjid in Old