Welcome to the royal city of Patiala in Punjab
Patiala is known for its three things
Patiala jutti, Patiala salwar and Patiala alcohol
We will start our food journey with the traditional breakfast called parothe
In sometime we are going to be joined by Divyam Suri with whom we are going to undertake this food journey
Is there any masala inside this or there is only eggs
There is potato inside this
Oh there is potato and eggs both
How wonderful. Is there potato in all of these?
One Gobhi Paratha
 
The city of Patiala shuts down by 10-11 pm
But Harbans Dhaba is open 24x7
If someone wants to see the night life in Patiala, drink tea at 3 am or 4 am
They provide us all through the night
And we come here
You won't get place to sit here at night
Now you might find it empty but at night the place gets filled up
No other place in Patiala is as lively as this one
Twenty four by seven. Do you sleep or not?
Our duty shift keeps rotating
Mine is from 10 am to 10 pm.
-It is twelve hours duty
At our place the Formula is very famous.
-Formula means
Ram Das's Formula.
-What is that?
Go and see over there
They make the Formula.
-Formula!
Formula tea.
-Yes. Formula tea. Ram Das's Formula tea.
Shall we see how the Formula tea is made?
Yes and lets order it with the parathas
I have heard that here you get the tea called Formula
Yes the Formula tea
What is this Formula tea?
It is different from the normal tea
Give us a Formula but before that tell us what is this Formula?
In the Formula you have the milk and well brewed tea.
So how did it came to be known as Formula. This leaf tea concoction.
I don't know from where had come a doctor
He named it Formula
After that it came to be known as Formula.
-Yes Formula
Please taste it.
Harbans Dhaba's Formula.
This is Patiala Chai
Aah! It is quite sweet.
Here comes our  paratha.
Here is your tea. Formula.
It came to be known as Formula because
A doctor had come from US
He had ordered some tea over here
When he was given the tea, he said it is not tea, it is Formula
He asked them its formula
Since then it came to be known as Formula tea
We have taken two kinds of paratha
One egg paratha and the other cauliflower parantha
Lets share it
The paratha has been made with potato and eggs
where there is a way there is tea
So you will find tea at all places
It is not the other way round
No. It is like where there is way, there is tea.
And the tea here is made with just milk
This is the cauliflower paratha
Having cauliflower parathas during the winters is much fun
you get fresh cauliflower
it just needs to be mixed with light spices and stuffed
Very delicious taste
Thank you
Suddenly the weather has turned stormy and it has become very cold
It seems like night during daytime
Sir tell us which lassi should we try?
Have you come here for the first time?
-Yes. Then try the sweet lassi
Sweet lassi. Plain
If you like flavours, then you can have mango and
How is khoya badam. 
-Khoya badam is good
One khoya badam
one chocolate
One chocolate lassi and one khoya badam lassi
Just as you have the Patiala peg, you have the Patiala lassi.
Milk cake, gajar pak
Til bugga and khoya burfi
Here comes the chocolate burfi
cheers
Wow. It is brilliant.
Along with this lassi you can taste the khoya
It is a creamy thick lassi
For crunchiness you have the almonds
You haven't added sugar. Are you getting the taste?
It tastes amazing
The sugar would have made it more sweet
You can actually taste the chocolate
In Patiala style
Of these five sweets, two are made during the winters only
One is the gajar pak and other is the til bhugga
Rest of them are available in all seasons.
lets try the til bhugga
It is khoya and white sesame
In fact I was reading today morning
Somebody has compared the calcium content in milk and white sesame
Sesame has more calcium than milk
Then we should eat it.
-Yes of course. It is healthy
It also keeps the body warm during the winters
Yes it does warms the body
In whole of India, during the winters, so many things made of sesame are available
If you go to Bihar, there you have the tilkut
Rewadi is made in Meerut
Then you have the gajak, til bhugga
In winters there are so many items made of sesame.
And it is special during Lohri as well
This is quite sweet
In this you have the proper taste of the chocolate
This is our specialty
Chocolate burfi.
-No all of them
Everything we do, we do mindfully.
We make sure that the customer likes it
Wow they have completely mixed the carrots.
Heaven
It has Alfonso crush
I haven't had a any better mango lassi than this
Mango lassi is my favourite
It tastes like mango shake.
-yes
In between you can get the chunks
Our curd that is there
We have a way of setting it
We set it at a proper temperature.
It doesn't get sour for three days
That's why even though you add the crush
you don't get the sourness
It doesn't seem like lassi
That's the creativity. You have created so many varieties of lassi
When we think of lassi, two things comes to our mind. one is the sweet lassi and the other is savoury lassi
In the savoury one you add roasted cumin and black salt
And the sweet one you make with sugar
On top you add the malai that's it
But I am amazed to see the fusion varieties of lassi that you have created
Pineapple, banana, Betel flavoured lassi
Raw mango lassi
Peach, litchi, orange, mixed, starwberry, banana, fruit berry, green apple, pomegranate
Now we have arrived at
Here we will start our eating spree with the very famous sweet corner called the Malhotra sweets
Their pakodes are very famous
The rain increased
Their paneer pakoda is most famous
Here you will get different kinds of pakodas
Before it starts pouring let's eat pakodas
In Patiala there are only two people who use coal fire oven
He and the other is Sadhu ram's son who makes puris
What does he make?
Puri, Kachori etc.
This is a whole mushroom
Very nice. Absolutely fresh pakodes
crispy
There isn't any chaat masala in this
This is just simple
Having pakodes during rains is much enjoyable
This is paneer pakode
Wow
The milk products over here
Be it paneer, curd and butter
there is no comparison
Punjab is known for this thing
the purity of milk
You will see that the paneer pakoda will melt in your mouth
here we have arrived at Sadhu Ram
Does people like kachoris in Patiala
Sunday is a holiday so here there is a huge rush
The ladle is made up of brass
Yes sir
How old is the shop?
This space is just five months old
The original one is 50-60 years old
You have shifted here recently.
-Yes it has just been five months
Urad dal kachori, potato curry and tamarind and mint chutney
This is patiala's famous Sadhu Ram's Kachori
Totally crisp kachoris
I never thought that i will get to eat such good kachori in Patiala
Very nice sir. The chutney is amazing.
Is the kachori available all throughout the year.
when do you start in the morning
From 8 am to 6. 30 pm in the evening
Samosa is available in after 10 am
Kachoris are available at 8 am
First comes the kachoris and then we start with the puris
Puris are available from 8 am to 2 pm
What all do you add in the urad dal pithi
First we soak the urad dal
half without skin and half with skin
Then we grind it
we then add the masalas
and then stuff it
Where are you from?
-Azamgarh, UP
Is the shop yours?
-No sir we are workers
It is Sadhu Ram's shop
Do you make these kachoris?
-Yes
The taste is of that of UP
We are five of us. We all make it together
I am saying that the taste is that of UP
What is your good name?
-Manohar lal
Now we have come to the jutti market
Here you will get many kinds of embroidered juttis
Which you can wear in party or at home
Patiala is known for its juttis
Take a look at if you like it
Very nice sir.
- Now I am getting the feel of Patiala
You have bought the Patiala jutti
The second thing that is famous in Patiala is Patiala suit and salwar.
Let me show you. It is our shop
Here you will get Phulkari stuffs, which is again a famous thing from Patiala
This one is called Phulkari
Yes it is an embroidery on the Dupatta
So this embroidery work is called Phulkari
Wow
Like Lucknow' s chicken work
Yes just like Lucknow's chicken work, you have Patiala's Phulkari work
This is one of Patiala's oldest juice shop
Sir how old is your shop?
It is nearly fifty years old
Your father had started it
He still comes to the shop in the morning
You can see so many layers
And it is so colourful
It is actual Patiala juice in which everything is in extra
Sir it is very refreshing
In every spoon you get a new flavour
Sometimes you will get the taste of Patiala
Sometimes you get the mango and less of papaya
Sometimes you can taste the rose and sometimes you get the taste of chocolate
Then there are dry fruit crumbs
Very nice
Thank you sir
Their shop had closed so we have come to their home
They are the Oxford Kulchewale
They are named so because right in front of them there is the Oxford Public School.
So they are famous by the name Oxford Kulchewale
People from far away come to have their kulchas
If anyone seeks suggestion for chole kulche in Adalu Bazar,
So we are at Oxford Kulchawala
How many years you have been selling it?
It has been twenty twenty two years
You are making chana kulcha or matar kulcha
This is chana kulcha
What did you smear on it?
-Aloo masala
It must be having salt and chillies
Black salt, normal salt and chillies
We make a mash out of it
Wow this is a different style of making the kulchas
First we made a pocket out of the kulcha
We had made this and sent it to Canada
Canada
The kulchas go to Canada
First we added the potato mash
then the black chana
grated paneer
then goes three kinds of chutney- ketchup, garlic chutney, coriander mint chutney
then went the butter
then it was pan fried on a griddle with butter
This is the chana khulcha sandwich
there is lots of butter
It is crisp from the outside and you can taste each ingredients distinctly
very nice. It is of a unique style
I haven't eaten this type of kulcha in the whole of India
Our Patiala Kulchas
Those are mostly consumed by the school students
As soon as the school gets over, there is rush at their place
And by 3 pm all their foodstuffs gets over
See today we have come at 3.30pm
but their stock had exhausted by then because the school students had already eaten them
It is a must try dish
If you are in Patiala and you miss this then you haven't eaten anything
It is a must try I can say
So these are the Russi Chane
The chanas come from Rajasthan, and are prepared in Patiala
and they go till Canada
He is so full of praises for you
He said that just like we go to Murthal to have Parathes
Similarly you will come here for butter chicken
Sahni Dhaba is the identity of Patiala
We will try the butter chicken and what ever you might suggest
everything is the best
We will try the butter chicken
Before the butter chicken arrives please tell us something about the Dhaba
How did it started? Something about you
My grandfather started it with a cart
Then he bought a shop. My father worked really hard
My father then bought one shop, then second then third
Now there are five shops
I have a younger brother who is in New Zealand
It is the love of the people that we are flourishing
It is the love of all our loyal customers who are helping us flourish
The keema is that of mutton and the dish is rara chicken. So there are chicken
Tandoori roti is all puffed up and on top you have this carom, nigella and sesame seeds
The chicken is soft and juicy
The butter chicken gravy is not very sweet
It is a mix of chicken curry and butter chicken
It has some spiciness
there is a slight sweetness from the tomatoes
Along with that you have khoya, magaj and many other spices
You can get all the flavours. Now let's try the rara chicken
It is spicy because it has been tempered with whole red chillies
It has both the taste. You can taste the chicken and the mutton both
This is missi roti. It has onions
carom seeds
and cumin
Where have we come now?
So we have arrived at YPS market
 
It is the market in front of it
This is the first point of Patiala's gedi route
The gedi route from one point to another
We call it YPS to 22 no. gedi route
So it originated from this place because there are a lots of cafes over here
And the market in front of the school is also popular
So the youngsters
would come out in the evening to display their cool attitude.
So they would travel to and fro from one point to another
Since then the route is termed as YPS to 22 no gedi route
Every city has its own gedi route
At Chandigarh's sector 17 there is a mini Eiffel tour
That is a gedi route over there
For gedi you need a car
a big SUV or something similar
And if you are in a two wheeler, then the most famous two wheeler in Patiala is the bullet
That we call Bult
The different kind of flavoured waters began from Ambala
There you get the current ke golgappe
Our shop is named Kake jaan
They are our relatives. We have learnt from them
What all flavours are there in Satrangi golgappe
There is cumin, mint, asafoetida
normally we have black pepper
Today we have the guava one
there is the simple meetha one
And dahi chutney one
Is this served in such plates?
Do you serve it individually or serve it together in a plate
No we serve it separately
Meetha pani, Guava
Asafoetida one
Pudina. Cumin
And the curd one will be served at the end
In this Satrangi one there are five flavours over here
This is the sixth one and the seventh one
cumin
There are seven flavours. First one is that of cumin
These golgappe are so fresh .
This is the mint one
What is this third one?
-Hing
This is guava flavoured water
The best
Finally we have two more flavours
Two different types of golgappe
One is the curd one and the other one is the chutney one
the chutney one has saunth, mint and coriander and kala channa
it has been garnished with ginger
This has the same things only some curd is added
So we are finally ending with this
Let's have the chutney one first then the curd one
very tasty
We are finally ending our Satrangi golgappa trail with the curd filled golgappe
Come
Cheers
Thank you and Happy Lohri
One thing from Patiala that is still left to be tried in this tour is the Patiala Peg
It will come now.
We had left it for the end
How much volume is a Patiala Peg.
-90 ml
It is measured like this or this
So it is thirty plus thirty plus thirty. That makes it 90 ml
If we keep it like this then it will be 90 ml
Okay these three fingers
What is its story?
So it was originated by the king of Patiala, Maharaj Bhupender Singh
The name came from that time itself
He used to take a peg every night
He would place his three fingers like this and would order his caretakers to make him a peg of that measure
When that peg was made it would be around 90 to 120 ml
And that one peg would be suffice for the whole night
And that is the story of Patiala peg that is so popular across the world
People just go and say that serve a Patiala
It has been there in numerous songs and movies.
90 ml
you can sip it like this
using your three fingers
Using just three fingers. That's interesting.
Cheers and Happy Lohri
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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