In fact, the food of people from one region of India is sometimes unrecognizable as Indian food to someone from another. Satya, a villager from the Punjab, arrived in Delhi in the 1950s. She had never traveled outside the Punjab before and she found the customs of the other people living in her apartment building strange and fascinating. She noted with astonishment that the Madrassi family “preferred rice with their food, not chapatties like our Punjabi folk. Whatever vegetables they prepare— lentils, aubergines, tomatoes—they must have rice to go with them. Then they scrape it all up in balls with their fingers so that the juice runs down their forearms, not neatly with a piece of chapatti or a spoon. So one day I said . . . ‘Look, why don’t you eat like we do? After all, you are people of good family. Surely where you come from people don’t eat like that?’ ”
The neighbor “was very offended and abused me roundly, when I had only meant to tell her nicely that we didn’t like to watch such messy eating.” The outraged Madrassi might well have retorted that while her food might be sloppy and messy to eat, at least it wasn’t heavy and greasy like the Punjabi food Satya and her family ate. If the women ever recovered their friendship, they might well have united in condemning their Gujarati neighbors for their penchant for sickly sweet food, their Bengali neighbors for filling the place with the reek of mustard oil, and their Telugu neighbors for producing meals that were unbearably hot.
in my family, we normally eat dal with rice. i rarely if not never eat it with roti. also, haleem is eaten with a spoon. i was suprised when i found out ppl eat haleem with roti/bread. i think punjabis do that .. but yeah now i am used to it but i still eat my haleem with spoon only :D
in my family, we normally eat dal with rice. i rarely if not never eat it with roti. also, haleem is eaten with a spoon. i was suprised when i found out ppl eat haleem with roti/bread. i think punjabis do that .. but yeah now i am used to it but i still eat my haleem with spoon only :D
What about Haleem+ rice combo? Haleem is also a kind of daal dish.
I eat aloo bhindi and I’m not even Sindhi but how we got the recipe is quite interesting. One day I went to my uncle(Chachas) house and they were having this so I tried and it tasted good so I asked them where they got recipe and he replied that one day he went to pathan cafe(dhaba) and he had this in his menu so he ordered it and liked it and asked for recipe which the Khan Sahab gave it gladly and from that day I like aloo bhindi more than bhindi ki bhujya.
In our family we also eat haleem with spoon and some rotis are available if anybody wants and everybody wants it. It’s not about Punjabi’s like my family and relatives are pure Urdu speaking but have the habit of eating with roti and most of the people do same in Karachi or at least wherever I went for Haleem party.
i searched but couldn’t find the right pic for ‘daal bhaat’…here is a pic of daal chaawal…replace this rice with a more runnier broken parboiled/patna rice…[like patla rosotto rice]…plenty of daal on the rice…it’s like runny khichRii but daal and rice are separate.
There is another weird combo never tried it but heard tastes good. Rabdi+Sheermal and this combo is also mentioned on the shopping bag of one of the famous shops of rabdi in Karachi.
The matter is not of opposition. Its just some things looks strange to other communities. As I gave example of aaloo + Bhindi.
There is this vegetable Beeh (Lotus vegetable) popular in rural Sindh:
My sister sometimes ask relatives visiting us in Karachi to bring Beeh and she put it in gobi or meat dishes. If she put this beeh in my lunch box for office, I try to keep it in box and not in plate, as I don’t want other colleagues to see this strange thing in my plate. lols.
rabRii to best hotii hai Khurja kii…ham jab jab bhii AligaRh se Delhii jaate the to is shar ke station par jab train pahoNchtii thii to kaanoN meN aawaaz aatii thii…“Khurja kii Khurchan”…i always bought a kullhaR ful of rabRii and enjoyed it thoroughly! i bought it in both directions.
It’s not about Punjabi’s like my family and relatives are pure Urdu speaking but have the habit of eating with roti and most of the people do same in Karachi or at least wherever I went for Haleem party.
