Hotel Mera Mann Lucknow
I, Station Road, Hussainganj Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, 226 019, India
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Dreams I could do without
... speech defect) compared to people doing important work like doctors and policemen and teachers. This chef was a genius. If you want the worlds best biriani, Taj Residency is the place.
Now, this is where it got a little freaky. After my wonderful meal, I was taken into the bar area. Indian hotel bars are strange places. They seem to be entirely populated by men, usually of a swarthy slightly ...
Lucknow, don’t come here it’s not a ni
... a 5 hour delay, so 10:30 becomes 15:30, luckily the deep hotel does a 24 hour thing for checkout time, so because we were late arriving after the 10 hour bus trip our check out time was 19:50, not the usual 12:00 checkout that it seems to be all over India.
So we had a bit of a walk round and got back in time to get to the station, I logged on again and this time the train showed a 7 hour delay, so 10:30 was now 17:30, getting close to our checkout time now...
We ...
3 days in Lucknow
... to leave our shoes in a little pile with the rest and enter barefoot. We spent at least an hour wandering the hallways, taking dark stairwells using our flashlights, and finding our way to the roof which had an amazing view over the garden area. We got a little lost, but eventually found our way to the exit. Once we were out and retrieved our shoes we were approached by another group of students. We told them we'd already been interviewed, but they ...
Lucknow : The Land of Kababs!
... is a style of slow cooking
called Dum-Pukht which is invented by awadhi nababs. For best
Nihari-Kulche visit Raheem’s at Chowk. Although Karim’s Nihari in Delhi
is as good as of Raheem’s but the Kulche was ...
A bit of luck in Lucknow
... But before we got very far, we stopped for another treat: paan. Paan consists of a leaf rolled around a number of possible ingredients, always including betelnut, and sometimes including tobacco. Ours did not have the latter, but was filled with coconut and breath-freshening herbs. We stuffed them in our mouths and chewed. And spat. And chewed. And spat. It was not very ladylike at all. In fact, it was pretty disgusting. It left my mouth with a fresh ...



