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Durga Puja 2023: Steamed Hilsa and Smoked Vetki, Pabda Fish Jhal, Kasha Meat, Prawn Malaikari Cooked in Coconut Milk, Meat Broth with Raw Chillies.
Siliguri: Any Bengali festival is incomplete without wrist dipping. So will you spend Durga Puja in the kitchen or not? For a few days of Puja, there is no cooking at home. Why cook at home when you have the option to choose your favorite items from a long menu of dishes!
Bengali people like to eat in restaurants after stopping the henshel on some days of Puja. And you have to come to this restaurant to enjoy the best Bengali food of Puja. Because if you come here, you will get only 150 taka of vegetables. “Jhale Jhole Masalate” is the new Bengali food restaurant at Ganapati Hotel in Bidhan Market area of Siliguri.
You will be served ten items of food in an earthen pot. And who does not like to eat a little old Bengali food during Puja. This restaurant offers great food at very low prices. Steamed Hilsa and Smoked Vetki, Pabda Fish Jhal, Minced Meat, Prawn Fish Malaikari cooked in Coconut Milk, Meat Broth with Raw Chillies. Along with this there will be some chef special dishes.
The interior decoration of this restaurant is very charming and the atmosphere inside this restaurant will make you feel like you are entering another world. Subrata Saha, owner of the restaurant, said, “Bengalis like to eat outside during the puja. So all the Bengali dishes are served here in earthen pots. We have put a little more emphasis on the thali. Veg thali starts from Tk 150. We have five types of thali here, including hilsa fish thali, mutton thali.” Debashis Kundu, a foodie who came to eat at the restaurant, said, “The food here is very good compared to five other restaurants in Siliguri. You can visit here with your whole family once during Puja.”
Anirban Roy
Kolkata, West Bengal
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