Keema Meat

How I love the Amritsari Meatwalla.

Mr Narender's keema meat is spicy, soft and guaranteed to put you to sleep for you just cannot stop eating.



Very nondescript, you will find this place once you turn left after you pass under the Defence Colony flyover.


There is not a lot of things that you can eat here. The several printouts plastered all over the walls indicate four items - the Keema meat, Keema kaleji, Keema egg curry and Chicken biriyani - all priced between fifty and eighty rupees. Each roti comes at two rupees. The first three items have a generic keema-based gravy that comes out of this large bubbling pot.


The only problem is that you cannot set your watch by the timings. If you take his word for it, you can expect to be served lunch at half past one. I waited from two to three before I was served.


But pure desi ghee, Mr Narender claims. More photos of this place soon.



Edit: Mehra compared Mr Narender to the beloved soup Nazi on Seinfeld, the "guy who lays

down the law when he gives you soup". I had to agree. At 9:15 p.m., there were a few frayed nerves around that bubbling pot.



Seemed to be some kind of system in place, but whatever it was, its collapse was painfully evident. People wanted food. And they were being made to wait in a haze of the most amazing aroma of mutton being spiced. Several plates of keema kaleji and keema meat and stacks of rotis were being sent to what can best be described as an "eating area", but it was never enough. A Sardar feigned familiarity, another person threatened to get angry, but nothing worked. One just had to wait.




We had decided to get the food packed, and despite the chaos, we did not have to wait more than 25 minutes. At home, we attacked the keema meat and rotis. Not surprisingly, it was well worth it.