I am travelling to Delhi and want to try authentic street food. Any recommendations?” This question often makes an appearance on social media platforms. Usually, such posts are inundated with links to blogs and YouTube videos that indulgently chronicle every little morsel of potato that is fried, every drop of chutney making its way to the chaat plate and every move of the street vendor’s hand on the quintessential tawa.
The romance of having a plate of chaat between being jostled for space in the dusty lanes of Chandni Chowk in Old Delhi is captured in painstaking detail by food