Eating Biryani in Aminabad (A post with pictures!)

So the other night I went out with my guest house homies, Sanchit and Takashi in search of some delicious Biryani. We found it at this place, Bismillah, which is located right next to Tunday Kabob. (“Bismillah” is the phrase in Islam which you’re supposed to say right before eating. Something like, “in God’s name [I do this thing which I'm about to do]“)

There are two locations. The main one is, as I said, right next to Tunday Kabob, but there’s another small location down a little alley which serves only chicken biryani.

You can see right next to it is a little stall selling chikan clothing. Yes that’s right, chicken and chikan. Anyway, the restaurant was literally just a couple slabs of wood that you sit on while eating this amazing chicken biryani.

Here you can see the vat in which they cook an keep the biryani. Also, the back of Takashi’s head.

After this we decided to head back to the main Bismillah headquarters for a larger variety of food.

This is their entire menu.

We consumed some mutton biryani

Along with a side of seekh kabob

Oh yeah, and this place actually had tables and chairs, though it was still very tiny.

Here is Sanchit enjoying the heck out of his biryani.

And if you’re curious how they cook all the delicious kabobs and meat dishes that we consumed, here’s a picture of that too.

Most of these types of eateries have similar large, metal wok-esque devices out front. You can tell that the middle gets the hottest, so that’s where the actual cooking occurs. The items around the very edge are finished cooking and are kept there so they’ll stay warm.

Afterwards we stopped over at Prakash Kulfi for dessert, but for some reason the kulfi was very salty, so it wasn’t really as satisfying as it could have been.

All in all a mostly successful eating adventure. Tonight, we may be making our way to Dastarkhwan (which means the table-runner which the dishes of food are placed on). Last time we went there I forgot my camera, but I should be able to document it this time. I’m telling you, this place has the most incredible meat dishes. I’m almost salivating right now. I’ll keep you updated!

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Khuda Hafiz!

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~ by yatrahindustan on July 24, 2009.