Manek chowk in Ahmedabad is very famous for its road side food stalls especially after 8 pm. In fact it is most famous eatery hang out among ‘Amdavadis’ (People of Ahmedabad). The place is famous as ‘KhaoowDraa Gallee ‘(equivalent for Gluttony Lane) in Local people. Our classmates used to always make us envy when they used to narrate their hangout story at Manek chowk. Driven by an extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food ; one day gang of 6 girls from my MBA class decided to visit ‘KhaoowDraa Gallee’ at Manek chowk. Needless to mention here I was front runner amongst them for planning this trip.
With help of our local friends we arranged 3 two wheelers. We all decided to start our much awaited Ghanchakkar outing at Manek chowk around 10 pm one day. It was delight for us there. So many variety of fast food to chose from various food stalls. We joined band wagon of huge crowd and ordered so many plates of various belly crunching food items.
You guessed it right, above photo is taken at Manek chowk by some traveler at 11 pm. It proves really that people in Ahmedabad are the craziest outdoor food fans. Being a Dry state Gujarat has an edge over other states of India for safe late night travel for women. Girls can freely hang out till late at night without the worry of being harassed or pestered in any part of Gujarat. I am sure all my friends who ever have experienced this safe social life in Gujarat would be missing it, once they have left the state.
Yes of course we all actually had skipped our lunch in anticipation of compensate the same with yummy and tasty food in evening at Manek chowk. How true our anticipation was. We finished our mission around 11.45 pm and started to come back from Manek chowk to our friend’s home. After reaching our friend’s home one member from our gang had brilliant idea to have 'Ice Gola’ (mouth-water-coloring Indian ice slush). Even though we were so full after marathon dinner at Manek chowk, we never wanted to miss that opportunity.
We again went out to have Gola in Paladi around 12.30 AM. We all really had to struggle to finish whole Gola as our stomach was so full with Manek Chowk food. The next day almost all of us had stomach ache because of immoderate amounts of food intake of previous night. But the joy we had in that outing was worth for anything.
4 comments:
Hey Hetu this is getting me all nostalgic...
I remember that day.. we all met up at my place.. clicked a few pics and like princesses stood on Ellisbridge to click a few more...
Not to mention the dishes we had.. Pav bhaji,pilao, sev puri, pineapple sandwich, kulfi also i believe.... I am already hungry....
And yes I am out of amdavad and I terribly the night outs.. No city like ahmd.. As in going for tea at 2 AM is possible just gals yes.. But not anywhere else...
And our photography sting... ohh man, everyone over there were staring at us and even those galla-walas wanted to be in the pictures, our pictures which they might wont see that, but still they wanted to be there in those, remember those waiters standing where they were to be in the frame as soon as they see us clicking...hehehe
We had pizza too Nithya, with loads of cheese on that appearing like a small hill...lol :oD
And then we thought we can hang out on Ellisbridge, how cool will be that, apparently which turned into not so cool :oD hehe
@Nithya: Nitu you are absolutely right... those nostalgic moments are priceless... your mom was also watching our crazyness with so much shock :), i remember we included her also in our photography stint at your home :)... and yes ofcourse Big salute to spirit of Amdavad... thank you for taking us to that gola vala and forcing us to have that amazing gola :)
@ Lopa: tru lops, that Elisbridge photo shoot in your mobile, and gallawalas chapter was too funny... I do remember our special instruction for that extra chese on pizza :)... nobody apart from arunima amongst us actually required that extra cheese looking at our physic but how maniaclly we were crazy of that food those days...
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