Hyderabadi Biryiani

Sept. 17

Gaurab, our friend from Nepal, just came to Ahmedabad, so Nihal, Karuna, and I all went out to dinner. We went to this restaurant, Hyderabadi Biriyani, that Nihal keeps talking about. It was really nice with fancy chandeliers. All the local people coming in were really dressed up, and we all were pretty sloppy though! The food was really good – I had some meat again- mutton and chicken. However, I still just don’t like the Hyderabadi biryani that much. It’s kind of like fried rice with chicken and all these spices – whole cloves and whole cardamom pods. There was some dessert there that Nihal kept talking about, so we asked for the dessert menu. The server said no! Even Gaurab, who speaks Hindi, couldn’t figure it out. Finally he got him to bring out a tiny little dish of this dessert. It was like bread with a bright pink, sugar syrup with nuts on it. It was really good, and really sweet, so we thought the one small dish was enough for all of us. Well, ten minutes later he brings out this enormous platter piled high with it!