Indian Rail: Gastronomical Disaster
There was a time when railways used to serve fairly decent food. With enough variety in a plastic tray at a reasonable cost. Imagine my surprise when i asked for matar paneer and paratha combo in jammu mail, on my way back from pathankot to delhi. Some quick observations, which you can test for yourself from the image too:
1. Extremely oily matar paneer subzi. Every little piece of matar and paneer was floating in a sea of oil
2. 3 cold parathas wrapped in a glitzy silver gift wrapping paper, complete with a ribbon that held the paper together
3. paper plate, which i had thought had become extinct…hence you can imagine how it feels like to hold food on a flimsy paper plate, in a moving train
4. Disgusting taste, to say the least.
What more do i say? Stop taking your passengers for granted, railways/irctc/lalu/mamata.
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Hello Puneet,
Interesting post. While I love traveling on Indian Rail, food has always been hit and miss. The Rajdhanis and Shatabdi’s serve OK fare most of the time, but inconsistency is the rule elsewhere. There was a time when you would get food in dirty metal trays. At least plastic and aluminium (though environmentally not great) is a littl more hygienic. That said, there are some culinary gems on specific trains/sectors/stations. Igatpuri for batata mvadas, cutlets on Mumbai-pune and chennai-bangalore day trains, masala chai at Mathura etc.
-Bharat (http://eone.vox.com)
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