Thursday, September 3, 2009

Asian Desi Food






When talking about the food of Pakistan everyone minds sparks with Spicy foods. Pakistan is multi ethnical culture where its western border linked with Iran and Afghanistan and eastern border linked with India. After migration in 1947 people comes form all over India to Pakistan mostly in Urban Sindh and few in Punjab. Due to merging of different cultures Pakistan create his own flavor of tastes. If you travel to Pakistan you find the spice changes place to place, if you starts from Karachi, the Burns road is one of the oldest food place and as the Karachi become the metropolitan having population almost 1.7 Billions the other famous place also established like Zamzama street, Boat basin, Husainabad and Super High way Restaurants. All these places you will find the most common food items are Biryani, Karahi, Katakat, Pizzas etc with lots of spice.





In Bolochistan like Quetta you will feel a quite different taste of Rousted Chicken, Mutton etc with less spice. They just put some Masalas in Mutton and put on fire, this is pretty original style and delicious too. Same is the way we used to see in NWFP also influenced by Afghanistan type of dishes like one of the famous are Chapli Kabab. Cities of NWFP Peshawar, Murdan are famous for Chapli Kabab.




Punjab is Pakistan largest Province has actually distinguish into three parts, one is southern Punjab where cities like Rahim Yaar Khan, Bahawalpur, Multan etc then Central Punjab Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Okara, Lahore, Shaikhupura, Sialkot and then Northern Punjab cites like Chakwal, Rawalpindi , Wah Cantt and Islamabad. In Southern Punjab where food stuff is more traditional than Sindh, most famous are Multani sweets like Sohan Halwa. Central Punjab has its own rich culture people lives there are actually richer than any other parts of Pakistan. Sialkot and Faisalabad are major industrial cities and so as Lahore and these things shows in its life style and food. Food are pretty spicy, one of Pakistan famous place for food are in Lahore called Gawalmandi food Street where many small hotels and restaurants are on a single street therefore many local and foreigners comes to eat mouth watering Pakistani foods. Most famous dishes are Lahori Chargha, Tikka boti, Kabab and many other delicious sweets and ice creams.





Same we have found there is lots of Desi Food Shops simultaneously, we observed tremendous growth of foreign food chains, and most common are Pizza Hut, KFC, and McDonalds etc.
Pizza hut was started with Italian taste then gradually divert to desi taste and that create a huge impact on sales and we have notice that people come to pizza wanted to eat Chicken Tikka Pizza etc. Now there is lots of other companies stared selling pizzas and most known are Dominos Pizza, Papa Johns Pizza and Penny Pizza etc.
KFC also starts many franchises all over Pakistan and the cities where you can find KFC are Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Multan, Sialkot, Jehlum, Hyderabad, Peshawar, Gujranwala & Sukkar.




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