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My current ranking of Indian desserts:
You can view the pictures here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_sweets_and_desserts
1. Rosgulla – ros(a)gullys, as we call them – are cheese balls in syrup.
2. Mishti-doi is a yogurt similar to our _homemade_ ryazhenka, but sweet. Actually, if I had known earlier that adding sugar to homemade ryazhenka creates such deliciousness, I would only make it like that at home.
3. Kulfi is a local version of ice cream. There is also another local version of ice cream - "frozen yogurt," which is also tasty.
4. Chana-pai doesn't translate to "Chinese pie" as I initially thought; it means "sweet pie" – essentially a sweet cottage cheese casserole with very little flour (and no eggs, because vegetarianism is everything for us). I encountered other names for this dessert, but didn't remember them.
5. Rabri is homemade condensed milk, made right in cafes. It’s very popular among locals, but in my opinion, it's too sweet to eat constantly. Like mishti-doi, it is usually served in disposable containers.
6. There is also a hybrid of items 1 and 5 with an unmemorable name – mini-rosagullas in rabri with various goodies. For example, they add pumpkin seeds and raisins here. And also edible silver foil (which they somehow add to half the desserts).
7. Kalakhand is something like chana-pai, but drier (although sometimes it seems to me that items 4 and 7 are the same thing).
8. Gulabi are sweet cheese and flour balls fried in oil.
9. Laddus: there are about 6-7 varieties of laddus in an average store, made from different types of flour and with different additions: some are made from semolina, some from chickpea flour, with coconut, with chili, with nuts... basically, for every taste. But since there isn't a drop of cottage cheese in laddu, I don't eat them often, only occasionally :).
10. All the rest: sandesh, jalebi, chom-chom… thousands of them; you can’t remember everything.
Just in case, for those who plan to visit Kolkata or Kathmandu, here are some tips on where I particularly liked:
Rosgulla is a traditional Bengali dish, so the best ones I tried were in Kolkata, most often at "Haldiram Food City" – a very pleasant cafe. In Kathmandu, the best ones I tried are sold near Durbar Square at "Pashupati Foods" and in the restaurant "Gulab." Near "Gulab," there is also "Calkutta sweets," but their rosagullas aren't very good, although I liked the other sweets. There is also a decent confectionery shop at "Sangam Sweets"; it's especially nice that they have branches in Birtamode, where I lived for more than a month.
You can view the pictures here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_sweets_and_desserts
1. Rosgulla – ros(a)gullys, as we call them – are cheese balls in syrup.
2. Mishti-doi is a yogurt similar to our _homemade_ ryazhenka, but sweet. Actually, if I had known earlier that adding sugar to homemade ryazhenka creates such deliciousness, I would only make it like that at home.
3. Kulfi is a local version of ice cream. There is also another local version of ice cream - "frozen yogurt," which is also tasty.
4. Chana-pai doesn't translate to "Chinese pie" as I initially thought; it means "sweet pie" – essentially a sweet cottage cheese casserole with very little flour (and no eggs, because vegetarianism is everything for us). I encountered other names for this dessert, but didn't remember them.
5. Rabri is homemade condensed milk, made right in cafes. It’s very popular among locals, but in my opinion, it's too sweet to eat constantly. Like mishti-doi, it is usually served in disposable containers.
6. There is also a hybrid of items 1 and 5 with an unmemorable name – mini-rosagullas in rabri with various goodies. For example, they add pumpkin seeds and raisins here. And also edible silver foil (which they somehow add to half the desserts).
7. Kalakhand is something like chana-pai, but drier (although sometimes it seems to me that items 4 and 7 are the same thing).
8. Gulabi are sweet cheese and flour balls fried in oil.
9. Laddus: there are about 6-7 varieties of laddus in an average store, made from different types of flour and with different additions: some are made from semolina, some from chickpea flour, with coconut, with chili, with nuts... basically, for every taste. But since there isn't a drop of cottage cheese in laddu, I don't eat them often, only occasionally :).
10. All the rest: sandesh, jalebi, chom-chom… thousands of them; you can’t remember everything.
Just in case, for those who plan to visit Kolkata or Kathmandu, here are some tips on where I particularly liked:
Rosgulla is a traditional Bengali dish, so the best ones I tried were in Kolkata, most often at "Haldiram Food City" – a very pleasant cafe. In Kathmandu, the best ones I tried are sold near Durbar Square at "Pashupati Foods" and in the restaurant "Gulab." Near "Gulab," there is also "Calkutta sweets," but their rosagullas aren't very good, although I liked the other sweets. There is also a decent confectionery shop at "Sangam Sweets"; it's especially nice that they have branches in Birtamode, where I lived for more than a month.
..разым двазым трызым рызым пята лата сигерь мата локом боком крюк за крюк из бульмы бульма урюк..
Знание некоторых закономерностей освобождает от изучения многих фактов.
Мечты сбываются рано или поздно, так или иначе.
Знание некоторых закономерностей освобождает от изучения многих фактов.
Мечты сбываются рано или поздно, так или иначе.