Food everywhere but chose carefully

Delhi is a wild collection of sights, sounds, tastes, experiences. I'm finding it a little hard to get my thoughts into order as each moment things change around me and I am drawn to another sensation. So a few pics of street food of various qualities but equal interest and ingenuity.

 Posh fruit vendor at Connaught Place - the tourist trap. Interesting though the gooseberries presented in a ball on an orange. This is how they are sold everywhere.

 This guy was making what we know as Bhargi mix (might have the spelling wrong) fresh for each customer with their choice of ingredients from a huge range of raw ingredients. This was a fairly upmarket and clean version, they vary down to a guy with an old timber barrow with a few small bags of about 6 ingredients - often outside railway stations and at the edges of markets.

All the US fast food is here including Maccas, Pizza Hut, Subway. They all have modified menus mostly for the predominantly vegetarian population. KFC and the others are expensive compared to local food. And as western food seen as aspirational. Hence KFC delivery

 This was a food stall/kitchen serving free meals. It looked really good and it took us a while to work out why the queue was so long with particularly poor looking people. Delhi's version of a food kitchen. There was another around the corner. After our visit to the temple today we think these kitchens are run by the faithful as part of their striving to earn a better life next time around.

Detail of one of the bulk food preparation happening in the street (literally)

 One of the tiny traders selling corn cobbs cooked on a small wood fire. You can also buy freshly roasted peanuts, baked sweet potato, popcorn all cooked on these tiny wood fires - often on a portable table. Everyone uses wood to cook. Even the chai tea men with a tiny fire under their tea pot.

Murray's first dinner in an Indian Family Restaurant (Reminds me of the Kuchia in Czech Republic, but nothing really to compare in Cairns - a food hall maybe...) He had a Big Thalli which comprises a number of wheat based carbohydrates that you scoop up various bean and chic pea based dahls with. Murray is coping surprisingly well with the vegetariean diet. He finished his meal with a warm milk infused with saffron, cashews and sugar - saw the name on a sign today but couldn't write it down. Will get the name for later. Glorious, particularly on a cold night.

I had the tikka plate. Looked better in real life. Hot and spicy with so much variety. Mushrooms, tomatos, bean curd (or it might have been a haloumi style cheese) mint and chilli, potato stuffed with cottage cheese - all picked up with naan. Yummy :)