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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Food Joints.......

As i am pursuing my engineering from Noida, i come to gurdaspur after around 2-3 months. The number of food joints...yeah i am talking about about both street side and restaurants have increased in considerable amount in last 5yrs or so.

Lets first start talk about street side food joints...of course i ll be talking about the popular ones :

In this column i think "Anand Fast Food" needs a mention. I remember it was the one that brought in wat we say revolution in serving JUNK food to the citizens changing their taste from Nath Chat House's Tikki to the unforgettable Burgers served with French Fries, noodles, tikki and also we boys used to sit at first floor and were never in hurry coz hume to time spend karna hota tha [:P]. Before i talk about them in detail some others that are equally successful till date are Naveen Noodles wala, Neelu Naan wala, Sharma samose wala, Laatu Chicken soup wala, Sardar ji Soup wale, and Sardar ji Ande wale.

Lets now list them as much i am able to recall except the 1s listed in above paragraph :

  • Bikaner Mishthan Bhandar
  • Vikram Gol Gappe (Outside Fish Park)
  • Hira Tikki (Outside Fish Park)
  • Bombay Hot Dag (Amamwara Chowk)
  • Bombay Burger, Pao Bhaji, Noodles, Soups, Manchurian (Outside Reliance Office, Hanuman Chowk)
  • South Indian Dosa (Front of Archies Gallery, Hanuman Chowk)
  • Pastry Point (Near Bus stand)
  • Dogra Bakery (GT Road, near Jahaj Chowk)
  • City Heart (Hanuman Chowk)
  • Kaka Naan wala (Outside Golden school gali)
  • Triveni Sweets (Kabootri Gate)
  • Gyan Halwai (Androoni Bazar)
  • Gurdaspuri Poori and Kachori (Bata Chowk, early morning)
  • Keher Singh De Fish Pakore (Fish Market)
  • Lalu Gole wala (Outside Little Flower School)
  • Nath Chat House (Tibri Road)
  • Bedi Juice Corner (Library Road)
  • Sharma Juice Corner (Near Cheap Stationery)

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

General and History

Gurdaspur is a city in the state of Punjab, situated in the northwest part of the Republic of India. It is located in the center of and is the administrative head of Gurdaspur District.

History:

Gurdaspur was founded by Sahib Deep Chand and was named after his grandfather Guriya in the beginning of 17th century. In his honour, this city was named Gurdaspur. He bought land for Gurdaspur from the Jats of the Sangi Gotra. Guriya, a Sanwal Brahmin of the Kaushal Gotra came from Paniar, a village situated 5 miles north of Gurdaspur.

**Gurdaspur was the last bastion of Banda Bahadur.