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May 16, 2008
Star rated "Telebhaja"
If you pass by this place in the morning, you will not have any clue about what is going to happen here in the afternoon. It's a small 3X10 ft Verandah of a North Calcutta street side house in the busy Surya Sen Street.
By 3.30 in the afternoon, an old tempo van will stop here, few people will pull out big Kadai and some other utensils, set up two wooden benches, and will start their work.
In 10 minutes, the big Kadai has now boiling hot oil, and all kinds of "Telebhaja"s are getting dip fried in it.
"Telebhaja" means fired in oil. What is fried? All sorts of pakodas and chops...the list is like this:
Amer Chop ( Mango flavored Chop)
Tomator chop (Chop with Tomato)
Aaloor chop (Potato chop)
Mochar chop (Chop with Banana Flowers)
Peyanji (Onion Bhujia)
Beguni (Brinjal Bhujia)
Kumri (Sweet Gourd Bhujia)
The non-veg affair is like :
Macher chop (Fish chop)
Mutton chop
Chicken chop
Dimer chop (Chop with Eggs)
Chingri chop (Chop with shrimps)
The price range is from Rs.1 to Rs.5.00
People are waiting in queue, to get the hot and super tasty bites, in the evening, by 5.30 or 6, you will see, the High Court Lawyer, the professor from Presidency College are among the crowd to have some garam garam telebhaja.
By 7.30, everything is over. The guys are packing their things back into that Tempo again and in another half an hour, are normal again.
