10 things to eat before you die...there are 100s....but for today

1. Chello Kebab at Peter Cat, Park Street, Kolkata....the recipe is pure. Delicately herbed rice lightly suated in butter ringed with tender makhmali Sheek Kebab and melt in your mouth Chicken lasagni tikkas...topped off with a perfectly rounded fried egg.....
2. Prawns Fry with Malabari Paranthas, Bhatiyar Gali, Ahmedabad....Shrimps (sizeable) fried in flavored oil (flavored with thousands of rounds of frying) slightly caramelized and with a masalla of tomatoes, garlic and onions. The Malabari Paranthas ...slightly sweet to the taste ...brilliantly rounded in layers and roast fried to perfection...You generally sit in your car and order for this. Carry a Thumbs Up with you. If you prefer something harder .. feel free.
3. Liver Curry....you will get this in any standard Bong Home....Diced Goat's liver and potatoes....in a gravy of Peas flavoured with light haldi, tomatoes, garam massala, onions and garlic....Dried and stir fried it tastes great with Rotis...preserve a little liquid and it tastes great with Rice
4. Patra Fish, A 1 Parsee Food Corner, Nanpura, Surat. Silver Leaf, Ahmedabad. Yezdi, Flora Fountain, Mumbai or at Sagar, Navsari. Slabs of white Pomfret ... marinated in a fine mixture of pudina, dhaniya, coconut, raw mangoes and other condiments...Steamed to perfection in its on marination wrapped in banana leaves...
5. Kolkata Biriyani @ Shiraz, end of Park Street, Kolkata....Delicately flavoured rice covering mutton cooked to perfection in a wonderfully evolved marination and topped with sauted potatoes soaking in mutton gravy and 1 boiled egg...Nobody in India has a better Biriyani recipe. Its actually evolved from Lucknowi biryani brought to Kolkata by a very kind Wajid Ali Shah and then evolved into perfection.
6. Chingrir Malai Kari @ Bhojohori Manna, Ekdaliya, Kolkata. There are many shops that serve this in many cities, but the one at BM, Kolkata is special. King Sized prawns with their heads on soaking in a evolved gravy of coconut cream and other usual masallas. Tastes devine with Rice
7. Gujju Thaali at Vishalla, Ahmedabad...I will get discent on this one...but I still maintain that the Vishalla Thali with its atmospheare and ambiance and of course delightfully tasty condiments to go.
8. Khichdi and Labra (mixed vegetable) at any Durga Puja Mandap in any city at all...Dont try this at home... it will never taste the same. Seems to taste the best on Ashtami.
9. Butter Chicken @ Ranjit da Dhaba in the road behind Safdarjang Hospital, Delhi ... I have forgotten the name of the Road. The creamy red white mixture bubbling with sinfull chicken tastes super with Tandoori Roti.. The Pandara Road variety isnt too bad either...but there is something special about standing on the road amidst polluting vehicles to have this
10. Prawns Kolivada @ Lambas, Chembur main Road, Mumbai.....Words fail me here....Kolivada...dont have it with anything at all....and watch it getting made...if you want a little Rum and Coke wouldnt be out of place