What you see is not what you get

I must admit that on many quiet evenings, I do miss not having an option for better culinary experiences which cities offer

Whenever friends call us for birthdays or any other “milestone” occasions they invariably want to know our special plans for that day. For those living in cities, I suppose “plans” invariably mean going out for meals with friends and family. For us in mofussil towns, going out is normally to one destination. Of the hundreds of little tea shops which make snacks, we have our favourites. So we head for one of those and have “alur chop”, the Bengali version of batata vada or aloo bonda. They are hot, right out of the oil, served on bio degradable saal leaves