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Jammu June 15
While the popular Kashmiri cuisine wazwaan has already entered the party lists of the Jammuites, now some other traditional Kashmiri snacks including kashmiri kulcha, tilli wo and, lawasa too have found a niche over the tea tables in the Jammu noticeably for the past few years.
With the Durbar Move many kashmiris find their livelihood in Jammu and make easy bucks by selling the traditional Kashmiri tea table snacks in a place far away from their home town. Many vendors are seen selling these stuffs every nook and corner in front of the ancient Ranbireshwer Temple adjoining the Civil Secretariat New Complex.
With movement of government employees from Srinagar to Jammu, these specialties have made their place in menu of light snacks of the Jammuites. Cutting across the barriers the traditional snacks have crossed the Jawaher Tunnel and have become an entry on the tea table in Jammu.
The sale of Kashmiri Kulcha (salted) Lawasa, and other items from Kashmiri traditional stuffs is marked with overwhelming response from many Jammuites, especially those residing in government quarters in the close neighbourhood of Kashmiri Community. Not only this but typical salted tea the ‘noon chaay’ prepared from a special kind of tea leaves and Kehwa (without milk tea but with dry fruit and saffron as main ingredients too are adorning many tea tables in elite class and also become a main entry in the menus of the restaurants in the winter capital.
‘Most of these items are pocket friendly to customers and are only baked without being spicy or oily thus the sale is picking up when people are health cautious about diabetes and hypertension for which the spicy and oily foods are blamed, said Ghulam Nabi popularly known as Ghulama among fellow shopkeepers at General Bus Stand.
Ghulam Nabi who deals in kashmiri tea an essential component of the staple food of kashmiris and has hired a shop at General Bus Stand said,“ Many Jammuites in the winters come specially here for Kashmiri Kehva and also ask for the specialty of Kashmir the leaves of salted tea.” He also mentioned if compared to past, the number of shops selling Kashmiri bakery and tea has increased substantially in the past few years.
Feeling the difference on tea tables, Tariq Mehmood a secretariat employee residing in government quarters at KC Road astonishingly said that his colleagues from Jammu often ask him about the whereabouts of Kashmiri snacks like from where we may get quality products etc.
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