Rabri in Delhi

Rabri is a Sweet and Condensed milk that is prepared by putting milk on low flame and boiling it for a long time until the milk changes its colouring to creamy pinkish.  It is then flavoured by adding sugar, dry fruits and spices. It is then cooled and served chilled as desserts after meals. Rabri is simple to make at house and can provide as a great finger licking treat.

This frothy treat is different to this rule to produce low cost street food in Delhi. You will find the humble-looking road stalls in the by lanes of old Delhi providing a whole glass of Rabri for around 100 bucks. This is more than the price of an apple pie or a chocolates brownie at CCDs and at Baristas and some other premium stuff sold in Delhi. However a normal size serving of Rabri could be had for 10 bucks. If you are looking out for cafes and restaurants in Delhi, you can follow burrp.com  on twitter or download the app for your blackberry smartphones here.

Used in a big plate and protected with a translucent net to keep off the dust particles, insects and flies, Rabri, as marketed on the avenues, is a very easy to make dish. It requires only two ingredients: milk and sugar, which are together boiled on a slow flame for several minutes. As it condenses and simmers, layers of cream or malai accumulates on the surface. This creamy crust is moved away and is made way for new layers of cream. The procedure remains until almost all of it is treated – the end result of this whole procedure is Rabri.

While its tough dirty surface will hardly lure anybody’s graphic feelings, the shopkeepers are so confident of Rabri’s attraction that they never try overselling by screaming about its good features. They know that engaged passers-by will certainly quit.

In most of the stalls, this dish is provided in a clay pot, which adds to the flavour of the Rabri. The Sweet Shops in Chandni Chowk are simple looking where the sweet is composed of a big plate of the dessert and is usually sprinkled with coarsely reduced pistachio and other dry fruits.

Fills up you up in a few spoonfuls, the sweet, freezing and loaded Rabri rests gently on the taste buds of everyone. Thick and Creamy, the white-colored substance is condensed milk in its best and purest form.

Top 5 Restaurant finding apps on your phone

 

•  Burrp (free)

Blackberry, Nokia

Burrp is a free restaurant finding app that connects you and your smartphone to a huge database of restaurant listings based on your locality.  The app is a product of Burrp.com which is a very popular website for finding Restaurants, Events and Reviews of places around you. Just open the app and punch your location and it will automatically find restaurants sorted by reviews and ratings. Overall a very simple and easy to use app.

•   Urbanspoon (free)

iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Android

Urbanspoon is very much similar to burrp. Urbanspoon uses the phones location through GPS to find restaurants and food around you.  The app for the iPhone was launched in mid 2008 and has seen a lot of updates since then.  One of the unique features of this app is that if you can’t decide what to eat or which restaurant to try, you can just shake the phone and it will pop up a random restaurant in that locality.  It also provides user reviews and ratings similar to burrp.

•  Yelp (free)

iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Android, Windows Phone, Palm Pre

Yelp was also started as a web-based application but has moved to mobile platforms. It provides one of the widest range of restaurant listings, thus making it incredibly easy for users to find restaurants even in small towns.  Yelp also shows international search results and listings. Similar to other apps, reviews and ratings are provided by fellow Yelp users.

• Eat Street (free)

iPhone, iPad

Eat Street is a location based free app that is developed by Food Network. It helps users locate best street food and food trucks in their city.  The app makes use of GPS and shows map location for both mobile food trucks as well as stationary food carts. Eat Street list only major cities in US but is spreading very fast.

• Local Eats (45Rs)

iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Android (free)

Local Eats offers only about local restaurants and food carts rather than national chains or fast food giants. It lists some of the best local restaurants in the major cities of US.  The app comes with filters such as price, hours, vegetarian or non vegetarian, bar area and lots more. It’s a great app for foodies who want to experience some of the best local food that is unique to the city.

Find Local Restaurants in your city here

Source http://allboutdelhi.blogspot.com/2011/10/top-5-restaurant-finding-apps-on-your.html

Top 5 Apps for Travellers

Travel Apps

To find the perfect hotels, booking flights or finding the best restaurants around town, apps have come a long way in recent years to help us all better. I have compiled a list of important travel applications used by frequent travellers, gadget freaks and even those who are unfamiliar with the technology, which is easy to use and guaranteed to make your travel experience much better.

1. Trip Advisor

You must have used Tripadvisor at some point or the other to   search reviews on hotels, restaurants or other local attraction if you are a traveller of any sort. This interesting website is now available as an app so users can search nearby addresses and local attractions and post reviews about them on the go. Tripadvisor is available on platforms like iPhone, iPad, Nokia, Windows, Palm and Android

2. Instagram

Instagram is basically a photo editing app that transforms your ordinary clicks to funky ones by allowing you to pick and apply various different filters and effects to your original photos. Instagram is one of the hottest selling apps in the market where users can not only share and edit their own photos on social networking sites like facebook and twitter but also follow your friend’s photos on those sites.

3. Burrp

Burrp helps you search for best restaurants right from your mobile phone. It has various filters like user ratings, price, vegetarian friendly and so on. Users can search and select restaurants depending on their location. They can also submit reviews about the same once they have visited the place. Burrp is available on Blackberry and Nokia and will soon be available on android and iOS.

4. Expensify

If you are a traveler who travel very frequently and want to keep track of your expenses then Expensify is the app for you. You can link bank accounts, credit card information and upload pictures of your receipts using this app. It also features an option to track your number of miles driven on trips and automatically create expense reports for you

5. The Weather Channel

Everything you need to know about the weather is right here in this app. A free yet reliable app that features full screen radar weather maps, seasonal information, weather news and a social plugin through which users can submit their own photos of weather conditions.

Find Restaurants from your phone

“Live to eat” or “eat to live” No matter which motto you choose, with the right apps, your Phone can keep you well fed.

Burrp for Nokia and Blackberry

If you are tired of looking and searching for restaurant to find a good meal? Next time, turn to your smartphone where apps with personalized search engines and user reviews will lead your stomach in the right direction

The Internet is brimming with apps that can serve you up with the perfect restaurant recommendation, find you a table, make reservation or even help you whip up your own feast complete with cocktails. And if you overindulge, there are apps that can help you make better nutritional choices and get you back into shape. The best part is most of these apps come directly to your phone free of cost.

Burrp.com – a very well know food and restaurant guide on the web has recently launched a free mobile application for Blackberry and Nokia phones that gives restaurant listings and recommendations based on personal preferences of the user.The app uses user reviews to calculate ratings of a particular restaurant which helps users decide whether to visit the place or not. You can also share your reviews on social networking sites as the app comes Integrated with social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.

The Burrp! app is like Netflix (Movies and TV) and Pandora (Music) for Restaurants that provides information such as addresses, phone numbers, user comments, map location and even menu card of the restaurant.

The app is comes very handy when you are out hungry looking for some good food and don’t have a computer near you. You can just go to this app on your phone, feed it your location and it will get you a huge list of what to eat and what to skip right on your smartphone.

Currently the burrp app is available only on Nokia and Blackberry platforms but the app for the iPhone and Android is coming very soon.

TGI Friday | Delhi

Delhi has the taste of all when it comes to food. Be it the lanes of old city or the swanky restaurants and hangouts. When in the capital, you have the option to choose from a huge variety of cuisines that range from street chat to regional food to continental cuisines.

Food in Delhi is a blend of North Indian, South Indian, Chinese, Continental and American Fast food. Delhiites Live to Eat and International food chains like McDonalds, Dominos, Pizza Hut, Pizza Express and TGIF justify this statement.

If you want to try out Mexican cuisine there are a number of options that may interest you.  To start with there is Ruby Tuesdays and TGIF (Thank God it’s Friday).  Both the places are exceptionally good and serve amazing food.  TGIF Noida has been a personal favourite for me. A great place to have Mexican and Italian food along with some chilled beer.

Some introduction about the restaurant.  TGIF is a restaurant chain in the around world with the concept of ancient artefacts, several elements of the game, bar and lounge setting. The music is good and not very loud and the setup is just amazing. The overall feeling is very relaxing. Just like a Friday Evening, when the job is done for the week and u want to start the weekend with some good food and drink.  All in all, a good place to go to with your family or your colleagues

They always keep spinning the menu and you will always find some offer or the other at the Noida outlet, because they are new and want to settle. For example, currently every purchase has a buy 1 get 1 offer for food and drinks both.

TGIF serves both Vegetarian and Non – Vegetarian food and here are some of my recommendations that you may try when you visit this place.

For Non – Vegetarians: ‘Chicken Fajita Nachos’ or ‘Three-For-All’ scheme where you get three appetizers in one serving. For main dish, try ‘Sizzling Chicken and Cheese’ or ‘Fridays Shrimp’.

For Vegetarians: ‘Grilled Pita Dipper’, ‘Fried Mac & Cheese’ or ‘Dynabites’ in appetizers. For Main Dish ‘Broken Noodles’ pasta or ‘Quesadillas’ or ‘Chimichanga’ is a good option you can go with. Top it up with ‘Fridays Sundae’ – Vanilla ice cream topped with hot fudge, caramel sauce, nuts and cream as desert.

Overall an amazing place to visit for all foodies out there in Delhi. Thumbs up to TIG Fridays.