Paratha and Metro Delight...

I am not able to come out of the hang over of today’s team lunch for which we were planning for last few months. As the team was anxiously waiting for the delhi noida metro to start so that the teammates staying in dwarka and other parts of delhi can avail the metro boon and don’t have to drive for 4 hours a day. But due to some or the other reasons, the metro got delayed and so the plan for the tea going to parathawali gali in chandni chowk in metro .

As usual the opener batsman of our team, dearest SG initiated the program and circulated the mail last week for the lunch and collected the contri money. This time, GG was the treasurer- the real baniya of team *grin* The team was in real high spirit on the friday morning and nobody was willing to work as we all were desperately waiting for the system clock to show 12:00 so that we can leave. Thanks to the onsite lead for postponing the conference call of E2E team as he was also busy in thanksgiving parties at onsite *grin*. We 12 left the office at 11:30 itself as the call was cancelled and we didn’t have any reason to sit in office. We went to the Botanical Garden metro station and parked the cars there. SG and GG the organizers bought the tickets and distributed one each. In the meantime, we started the counting to make sure that none of us is left behind, That reminded me of my college days when we used to go to Jaipur with the classmates and warden and we used to have this counting around 20-25 times in a single day :D

Anyways, we had to wait for around 10 mins on the platform as the frequency for noida metro is quite low. Some of my teammates were traveling in metro for the first time but we all were equally excited like school going kids :D As the doors opened, we all rushed inside the metro and jumped on the seats. SG looted a whole seat and invited some of us to sit on it. But then as 3 ladies came near the seat, SG and 2 other teammates thought that it’s a ladies seat but soon realized that it was a general seat only. Watever, we got a joke to tease them *devilish grin* Seeing Akshardham temple on the way was equally exciting. Finally we reached CP and changed to the yellow line. After almost 45 mins, finally we reached the famous Chandni Chowk and got this warning from DG before stepping out to take care of the wallets and purses. But after few mins only, RK realized that he has lost his cell phone in train; yea some pick pocket had stolen it *sad sad*. After walking for 7-8 mins, we reached the famous paratha street and looked for the shop for which we had got good reviews on net *the techies* :() The shop was full but still the shopkeeper somehow gave us 2 tables and we squeezed us into the little benches. After some time the fellow customers left but we were not allowed to occupy another table as as per him 12 ppl deserved only 2 tables *smart shopkeeper.. uff *

The list of parathas displayed a huge variety of parathas, rite from the usual stuff like aloo, gobhi, mooli, gajar, paneer to the rare stuff like mirchi, nimbu, karela, bhindi and can u imagine rabri, kaju, badaam and kishmish as well. Unbelievable man!!!

We ordered around 24 parathas in first round. I had ordered the nimbu one as suggested by my frnd who had been there earlier. Soon we got the order and we attacked the parathas. It was awesome!!! I really wonder what the hell they have added in the stuffing for that yummy sour taste. Ultimate!!!! The lasssi and the sabzi and pickle and chutney added unbelievable delight to the parathas. In the next round again we ordered some exotic ones like karela and bhindi and yea mirchi which made us mad. It was really hot. We all were doing see see after eating it but still we were eating it. Crazy!!!!

There were pics of Akshay Kumar sitting in that shop and eating parathas along with the MTV ppl also. I believe that was not the paid advertisement!! They must have actually visited the place. I really feel pity for me that I had not been to such an ultimate place till now. Yea you have to be extra careful with your belongings in the narrow streets of chandni chowk but it’s the real heritage of Delhi. We cannot get this flavor in malls and the expensive resto bars we visit mostly!!

As usual we 3 girls wanted to stay there and do some shopping but the selfish boyz of our team didn’t give any time for it *sob sob* And then the way back to noida, when everyone was feeling damn damn sleepy due to lassi and overeating. Ha ha ha. All of us wanted to go back to home and sleep but …

Overall it was an awesome experience. It will be a sweet memory in my mind always. Whenever I will hear the name of Chandni Chowk, this day will definitely pop up into my mind!!

Thanks to SG for initiating and everyone for participating*smiles :o)*