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Biryani of dreams in Noida’s Brahmaputra Market

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Babar Alam, a 44-year-old from Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr left his home town in 1998 in hopes to earn a better livelihood in Noida. There he started a regular meat shop. He always dreamed of having his own food shop, a biryani shop specifically. He stated- “I had that dream a month before some people had shut my meat shop. I bought a few utensils after my shop was shut and started a small roadside biryani stall. A customer liked my biryani so much that he offered me his stall in Brahmaputra Market, where I sell biryani even today.”

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Now, Alam is the owner of the famous Zaika, a food stall near Noida’s Brahmaputra Market, Secor 29. It serves Lucknow-style chicken as well as mutton biryani. These are the most popular dishes of his stalls. Apart from that, nihari, korma, and seekh kebab are quite famous too. 

Every day, he starts preparation at 11 am, involving purchasing raw materials from his brother’s meat shop, preparing the masala and cooking the biryani in 45kg copper handi. According to him, P10  rice must be used in biryani as it is thin in shape and cloth should be used as dum on the lid. “The secret to a good biryani is how you use the spices. Too much can make the biryani bitter while too little will make it bland,” said Alam.

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Since Zaika’s launch, it has been attracting customers across Delhi NCR-  “People come from Delhi, Noida, Greater Noida, Ghaziabad and even Gurgaon and Faridabad to eat our biryani,” said Alam, who has been cooking biryani all by himself. Sometimes his two sons help him Sameer, 18, and Zaid, 16. “I had hired some people to cook the biryani but they don’t do justice to the quality of the dish. So I cook it myself,” he said.

Priyadarshi Shastri, a seasoned writer with 5 years of experience, holds a degree in PR from Amity University. An authoritative voice in Entertainment, Lifestyle, and Trending News, his trustworthy insights captivate audiences worldwide.

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