Dhaka is well-known as "the land of traffic
jam." Dhakaiyyans are friendly and well-known as "street food lovers." Many say
"Dhakaiyyans love to eat”. They eat several meals per day." In
response to these comments, I have to say, yes, we love to eat but we eat 3
meals per day just like the rest of the world. The difference is that we love
to eat snacks too. Our snacks range from fresh fruits to deep-fried food. In dhaka,
it is so easy to find food.
Street vendors are everywhere. If there are people,
there is food. One of the greatest joys of living or traveling in dhaka is the
abundance and variety of food.
Street vendors, street food, roadside
stands, food stands, food stalls or whatever you would like to call it, simply
involves something mobile that allows an owner (or a cook in most cases) to
push them around, from home and back. Many people may think that street food is
not clean, but in fact with many vendors it is clean. And many of the owners
are unpretentious. The owners push a cart from home to their selling location
and then back home and clean the cart every night. Street food offers an
incredibly cheap price and some offer incredibly good taste. Sometimes it is
even better than a famous restaurant.
The following are the top 2 dhaka streetfood dishes that I think are better than what restaurants have to offer. In other words, you should buy the following food from a street vendor rather than from a restaurant.
1.
Chatpoti & Fuchka – One of the
oldest snack of dhaka city and considered to be the most selling street food. Fuchka is a mix of potatoes, chola (chickpeas)
boiled in spices, tomatoes, onions, coriander, green chilies topped off with a
sweet and sour tangy tamarind juice or sauce. The mix is stuffed in a crunchy
hollow wheat shell and has to be gulped in one bite. Chotpoti is slightly
different in that it's like a salad with chickpeas cooked in a slightly
different set of spices with all the above minus the shell and plus some boiled
egg slices. Both are absolutely delicious and although they can be easily
cooked tastily at home, there is nothing quite like it when you get it on the
street. Kind of like NYC street hot dogs!!
2. Jhalmuri – a light, healthy and quick to fix and bursting with flavours…spicy, tangy, crispy, crunchy & punchy. Thonga means the paper cone, in which this dish is
handed out by the street vendor, Jhalin
Bangla means ‘spicy’ and Muri is of course the puffed rice. This
snack food is meant to be spicy and traditionally demands the use of green
chillies only which lend it the heat or the ‘jhal’. The addition of a dash of
lemon makes it tangy and the sprouted mung dal & Bengal grams along with
roasted peanuts add the crunchiness to the crispy puffed rice.
If
you haven’t yet tested any of the above then I bet you’re missing two of the
greatest snacks of your life. So if anytime you visit Dhaka then don’t forget
to try out these best two dhaka street
foods even if you got a delicious dhakafood guide in your hand.
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