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Coming to Little India, one has never imagined there will be green chicken, among its sights and trickling of people.
Yes, the protein poultry green in colour, and it is not because of spinach, pesto, or some basil sauce. The Haryali chicken, the same as the mint sticks found before.
At the bottom of Khansama Tandoori Restaurant, it entices with its colourful chicken, the chickken tikka it has to sell, sitting pretty in little dishes. You can choose to sit al fresco at the first level, or enter into another universe by the hidden stairway.
The second level is totally dark and air-conditioned. The real task comes in reading the menu, where everything is typewritten in another kind of syllable, the indian ahs and rees, poetic and musically beautiful.
Haryali Tikka (SDG 12.50)
It is far more profound than the grand menu found in japanese restaurants. When you thought you know all about rotis, there is the daal, chaat, naan, pratha and rolls. Confusing like a maze, there could be up to thousands of items for sale. The days you don't know whether to choose set lunch, ala carte, or try something else, and not just one.
The tandoori comes all the way behind the menu, and it is not just tandoori, but tandoori non-veg starters and tandoori veg starters. Meat or vegetarian dishes to go with your tandoori, if you decided on grill for today.
P.S. The green chicken tikka is one of the non-veg starters for tandoori. Better than the chicken tikka outside for display, it is a most stunning blue jade green, there is no sauce on it which shows that the chicken is green. The green has already seeped into the chicken, and there is small bowl of mint sauce for dipping.
