One thing quite peculiar in Indore is its food culture. It didnt take me long enough to realise from day 1 from where i landed in the city. Dad helped me settling down and we dropped nearby the bus station and saw a long queue. We both initially thought was it some sort of riot of something. People shouting all over the place and young-middle aged people dressed gaudily along with kids hurriedly gasping in for some sort of thing. We both enquired from bystanders about what was it and we were astonished to realise that it a resturant called 'Gurukripa' which offers good food at reasonable price tag. For us it was a surprise because you see we never saw anything like that in Bhopal.
Soon i got in the flow with city's vibrant cuisine ranging from early morning fas food to heavy lunches and then evening hefty cream drinks and then spicy night food to late night fruit chats. You get everything in indore. You name it and they have it. Other thing is funny and satiating food nomenclature.
Say Ghamandi lassi aka Proudy buttermilk hahahaaa!!!
Kala Khatta, Aunti Soda, Bhutte ka kiss, moong ka halwa, baked Samosa( Patty in bpl), aaloo ki kachori(my fav.), missi roti and dry snacks with a whole lot of variety like one made from rice and another one with wheat. I can solely survive on those snacks for a complete week!
Food tradition starts right from bus stand with poha Jalebi then you can steer to rajwada to have a whole some Juice with a Hot dog ( They have their own indori version and its quite palatable). After pampering your senses with old book shops in khajuri market with a chocolate tea( Ya choco flavor tea and they serve that in ceramic cups!). On a hot humid day gogi and me would roam there in shorts, gogles and cheap T shirts all day long. Then you can move to MG road from GSTI square gliding down to chappan dukan muaaahhh! 56 shops that serve all types of foods. You can imagine its not less than heaven if not exactly it.
Night life is quite vigorous and wholesome if one is given to hedonism- ready to give all of it not caring if he or she will be late for work the day after it. Local brand Icecream Monica Galaxy aka Ek ke sath Ek free! Parsavnath pan is so juicy that it melts in the mouth within seconds.
New Indore has added to its glory with isolated coffee shops, Level 3 then 5 and now they have a good dance floor at sayaji too. Ravindra Nath Tagore theatre is also very innovative for the kind of art work it encapsulates in its tradition. Usha raje stadium is now an international stadium and Abhay Prashal is too good and i cant forget jagjit singh's heart warming show in there.
Velocity has a dazzling restutrant called Moon shawdows and so far its no1 for me.
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