You wake up early in the morning. And the first thing in your mind is to eat a breakfast. not only breakfast but a kind of mini lunch. Lahore a city of living people with living hearts where people cant live without eating the desi food whether in breakfast lunch or dinner. Usually people wake up at 7. And first thing they discuss is “What To Eat”. It’s a big question of the day for a lahori. If any American doctor comes to know how much cholesterol we lahori take in He will eventually die at the spot.
Some of the most popular dishes of lahore for breakfast and lunch and dinner are Halwa poori, Naan Chanay, kulcha with yougurt with some sugar in it, lassi, siri paye (head and legs of goat), taka tak (liver fried on a big pan with a small spade like thing), nihari, bar-B-Q, parathay and much more. On the big festivals such as Eid, katlama also called Punjabi pizza is one of the favorites of lahoris. In the month of Ramadan people of lahore eat double amount of food from the usual routine. During the time of iftar different stalls of food are decorated on the road side and there is a lot of hustle and bustle. Apart from this on the occasion of Eid Ul Azha goats, cows and camels are sacrificed and most of the lahoris eat so much amount of meat that they feel like they are going to burst out. Tikkas, kebabs and palao are the main food of this big occasion. I met a friend who went to Islamabad for a week was telling me that there is nothing to eat, and he was like going to starve from death. He told that there were no tandoors and no breakfast was there to eat. It was miles away from where he lived and when he got them he was going to vomit all of it. It was so bad and also very expensive.
“Lahore is Lahore” a three word sentence that tells all about the charm and feeling of being a lahori or living in lahore. If someone asks me to live outside lahore for a month, I would like to die instead.
The charm of lahore is something that could only be felt by those who are living in it especially from their childhood. the experience of living in this great city is like “you can take me out of lahore but you can’t take lahore out of me.
In lahore there are many small shops where drinks, paan and cigarettes are sold. If you cannot buy a full pack of cigarette you can ask the man to give you one. And one of the thing outside that shop is that it is red from outside. Not from the paint but due to the spiting of liquid after eating paan.
In lahore 12 gates of lahore which were built by the mughal emperors during their reign has a very different life style. Small homes, rush in bazaars, way the people speak and also the food which you get even at late midnight. There is non stoppable hustle and bustle of people and people are so soft spoken that you are going to love them. They are the lover of food with belly out.
In the end i would like to say
"Who has not seen Lahore, has not even born"
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