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Biriyani: Foodies flock to Ashoknagar to eat rose biryani. Biryani which started with 3 kg of rice has reached 33 kg today.
Ashokanagar: Have you ever eaten rose biryani-chicken chamb? Now people from far and wide come to Ashoknagar to eat this biryani. Biryani which started with 3 kg of rice has reached 33 kg today. Due to the influence of social media, long queues have been forming since afternoon to eat biryani prepared using rose petals by a chef who returned to America today. Shop owners and employees are struggling to cope with it.
Ashoknagar No. 19 Kakpool Gourmet Restaurant. Now known for the rose biryani by chefs back in America. This young man is better known as Dipankar Adhikari alias Laltu. Dipankar went abroad in 2013 after taking hotel management course. After touring various countries, the last job was America as a continental chef on ships. Then he returned to the country when the epidemic corona spread all over the world.
During the house arrest, Nitanti made biryani with his own magic with three kg of rice in the guise of yorkie with his friends. He used rose petals to make that biryani delicious. After that the fame of Biryani spread in the area. Laltoor thought of making biryani for business. Being a chef himself, gourmet chef Dipankar Adhikari does not compromise on taste and quality.
Along with biryani, this shop offers chicken chamb with rose petals. This biryani shop also has special offers. Chicken biryani with rose petals is available for just 75 rupees. Mutton Biryani for Tk 130. If you take the Tk 120 chicken biryani combo, you will get one piece of chicken biryani and one more piece of chicken chamb. Food is served on banana leaves.
But if you come to this shop and eat biryani, then you have unlimited biryani rice. You can eat this rose biryani until your stomach and heart are satisfied. This biryani shop has now responded to such an offer. The gluttony opens after noon. Laltu and family members themselves make this special biryani at home on a wooden griddle. Before afternoon, the stuffed hari was brought to the shop, and the serving started.
After four in the afternoon, the light crowd starts, as the evening falls, the line disappears. Even in the chairs to eat sitting in the shop, you have to eat in line. Some are 5 packets, some are 10 packets, even the house orders are coming for this rose biryani. The entire Ashoknagar is attracted to this biryani of the chef who returned to America. But if you arrive a little late, you will miss out. Because, even after making so much biryani, this rose biryani is getting finished by eight o’clock in the evening.
The number of biryani bones is increasing every day. Chef Dipankar returned to America but could not handle the crowd. Everyone in the family has shared all the work in the restaurant with his son. Laltu is planning to open more branches of gourmet restaurants in the coming days. Biryani made with 10 types of spices including rose petals is being sold at ‘Ae’ gourmet restaurant in Kankpool No. 19 while keeping a nominal profit and maintaining quality. This rose biryani is hand made by the chef who returned to the area to hit America.
Rudra Narayan Roy
Kolkata, West Bengal
Biriyani: Rose covered biryani-chicken chamb! Foodie Bengalis flock to this shop in Ashoknagar
