The day Chris and I found ourselves in Old Delhi, which is called Chandni Chowk, we stumbled into a restaurant named Haldiram's. I found a vendor selling mango kulfi (Indian ice cream) on a stick, and we tried to order one, but he gestured to another counter and told us we needed to buy a ticket. We walked to the counter and ordered 2 mango kulfis. We got our tickets and went back to the vendor. He looked at our tickets and pointed to yet another counter. Then he walked us over. It turns out we had not ordered kulfi on a stick, but instead we ordered something better. We handed the man behind the counter our tickets and wondered what the hell we were about to receive. He pulled two whole, peeled mangos out of a freezer and cut them in half, then diced the mango into cubes. Inside, the mango had been pitted and stuffed with kulfi and pistachios.
Old Delhi, by the way, is an intimidating place for foreigners, at least for these two foreigners. It was our last stop in Delhi, and as we rode the bus to Chandigarh, we joked that we'd been Chandni Chowked out.
Photos to come
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Old Delhi imitimdated us too! that is where i saw monkeys for the first time though!
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