Phuchka

On any given evening you will find a small crowd gathered around their street corner’s phuchkawala. The puris filled with mashed potato and tangy tamarind water stand apart from panipuris and golgappas. Dilipda, the famous Russell Street phuchkawala, serves his phuchka with a special tamarind water whose recipe is a carefully guarded secret and has aromas of everything from green mango to gondhoraj lime. So large is the cult following that he has become a familiar face at weddings as well as parties in Kolkata and beyond. His only condition, the water for his phuchkas must come from the city as anything else might change its flavours! Priced under Rs30, these are the phuchkas you will keep returning for.