In the holy month of Ramazan, international fast food companies across Karachi announce special deals and discounts for Iftar, but the people of the city prefer traditional desi food, comprising Indian dishes, for breaking their fast.
Every year, fast food companies and local restaurants make special arrangements for Ramazan and sell special food items with special deals for Iftar across the city, but majority of the people still prefer local chatpati dishes for breaking their fast.
Most people rush to the roadside pushcarts to buy qeemay kay samosay, aalo kay samosay, chanay ki chaat, dahi baray, dahi phulkiyan, rabri, falooda, long chiray, pakoray, pani poori, kachori, chewra, etc.
Interestingly, most of these dishes are Indian in origin, but are very famous in the metropolitan. More interestingly, the shops selling these food items are named after Indian cities such as Dehli [sic] Darbar Sweets, Bombay Hotel, Kerala Restaurant, Delhi Dahi Baray, Delhi Rabri House, and so on.
Burns Road is a street in the downtown area of the city that is famous for its wide range of sweet and spicy foods, and is supposed to be the hub of these shops with Indian cities’ names that sell Indian dishes.
In Ramazan, these shops sell light food items that are famous for Iftar since these shops remain closed during daytime in the holy month.
Otherwise, these shops have special dishes for dinner such as nihari, haleem, biryani, karahi, dhaaga kabab and gola kabab, sweets such as rabri, dahi baray, kheer and mithai, and drinks such as lassi, fruit juice and cold milk.
Besides these shops, one could find Bombay Restaurant at the Cantonment Railway Station, Kerala Muslim Hotel in the New Chali area, and Delhi Rabri, Delhi Dahi Baray and Bombay Dry Fruit as well.
The traditional Indian dishes available at these shops have their own history. All of their recipes arrived in Pakistan from different parts of the Indian subcontinent when many families migrated to the country during partition.
Despite the passage of over six decades since migration, all of these dishes are still thriving in the city and most people prefer to have them even today.
Karachi is a city of over 18 million people with multiple cultures, languages and backgrounds, but the main component of the metropolis is the taste of the food that these people from different cultures and locales have introduced in the city.
One of the beauties of the city is that you could find any taste that belongs to any city of Pakistan in Karachi, such as Peshawari chapli kabab, kawah, charga or sajji, as well as Iranian and Afghan food.
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