Nagaland house

One of the few things i like about Delhi is the fact that it is the capital city. Awesome roads, the metro, highways, freeways, cleanliness, great infrastructure, space (for someone coming from bbay), ministerial roads and houses, foreign embassies and my latest attraction - the state bhawans! Every state has a state house or a bhawan which has offices, rooms to stay and a canteen where they serve that states cuisine. Some of these canteens are open to outsiders, and the food cooked is subsidized. For example, Andhra bhawan is a hot favorite and awesome for spicy andhra food. 

Recently we decided to start sampling food from other states and in the process try and visit every state bhawan. Giving me company in this task was Rahela Khorakiwala. We had tried Tamilnadu bhawan a while back, and decided to try out some newer cuisines. The first one on our list was Nagaland house.

Nagaland house is very close to the Jor Bagh metro station, on Aurangzeb road right next to Jodhpur house. The canteen is a small, quaint place. They dont really have a menu or a buffet system. Its more like whats cooking in the kitchen today? All the excitement to try out some naga food kinda went for a toss as little did we know that Nagaland was known for dog meat and dont have veg food! Excerpts from our conversation.

Me - Khane mein kya hai ?
Man from Naga canteen - Pork hai
Rahela - Pork ke alawa ?
Man - Chicken curry, mutton curry, fish curry
Rahela - Veg mein kya hai ? pointing towards me, yeh sirf veg khati hai
Man - Veg mein kuch nahi hai
Me - Veg mein kuch nahi hai ?
Man - Hum apke ke liye dal ya kuch sabsi bana sakte hain (really sweet of him!)
Me - Naga style veg mein banayege na?
Man - Nahi, regular style
Rahela - Nagaland mein veg mein kya ban ta hai?
Man - kuch nahi, sirf non veg hai.
Me - Sirf non veg?
Man - Haan
Me - To breakfast mein kya khate hain?
Man - Ande khate hain

So that was it, only non veg! a lesson well learnt, next time call up the bhawan and check if they have veg options! anyways after convincing rahela that I will manage with the non veg gravy and rice we decided to stay back and eat at Nagaland house.

The guys there were damn sweet. They got us a plate of chicken gravy and rice. Knowing that I was veg, they also bought in some veg dal, boiled cabbage and a yummy veg soup. There was the naga mirch chatni to go with the rice. I however had the chicken gravy(without the chicken pieces) with the rice and the chutni and it was yummy! A little spicy, but good food. The soup was fresh, perfect, one could even mix the soup and the rice and eat it.
The best part of the evening was the bill, it came upto 120 bucks per head, a freaking steal for so much khana!