steamed and is always made with a flavouring of cumin or fried onions. Sada chawal – plain rice – is served with other wheat-based dishes. Vegetable biryani (fried veg rice) is also a favourite dish. In winter, is rice cooked with jaggery is gurwala chawal, or rao ki kheer delicacy when cooked on slow fire for hours with sugarcane juice, and sometimes rice is also cooked with green peas. Non-vegetarian options Authentic items include kadhai murg, tandoori chicken, tali machali amritsar, rara gosht, chicken tikka masala, peppery tandoori chicken., anda paneer (egg curry), seek kebabs, butter chicken, vegetarian and non-vegetarian kathi rolls, etc. Non-vegetarian popular starters include kebabs – Gosht Pudhina Sheek, Tangri and Macchi Hariyali Tikka and Chicken Tikka. Murg yakhni shorba and chicken shorba are popular soups. Most meat delicacies are eaten with plain rice, phulka or tandoori roti without ghee or butter. Sweets or desserts Sweets include firni or phirni (a sweet dish made of milk, rice flour, and sugar and chilled in earthenware bowls), gulab jamun and burfi. The desserts include fresh hot jalebi with vanilla ice cream, rasmalai and kesari kheer. The saffron-mixed buttermilk (lassi) of Amritsar; milk boiled with almonds, pistachio, and dry-dates in winter; and the same mix boiled into a thick liquid and then solidified in a banana-shaped mould in the form of a kulfi are desserts. Panjiri, whole wheat flour fried in sugar and ghee, heavily laced with dry-fruits and herbal gums is in eaten in the winters to ward off cold. Regional variations Haryana has dhabas all over and dhabas of Murthal, Sonipat on Grand Trunk Road are famous for delicacies including Murthal Paratha, Haryanvi Daal, Cheese Bread Pakora and more. "Garam Dharam" (Hot Dharam) vegetarian dhaba based on Sholay theme at Murthal Sonipat, with fruit parathas as one of its speciality, is owned by the Bollywood action hero Dharmendra. Overseas The word has come to represent cuisine of the Indian subcontinent so much that many Indian restaurants in Asia (Bangkok), Europe and Americas (Trinidad and Tobago) have adopted it as a part of the name. See also Indian cuisine Pakistani cuisine Dabbawalas of Mumbai Cha chaan teng Hong Kong diners Greasy spoons Hawker centres of Singapore Kopi tiam in Southeast Asia Tapri in central and south India Truck stops in North America Kesar Da Dhaba Mamak stall of Malaysia and Singapore References Restaurants by type Transport culture of India