New Market is the destination if you're going to do Christmas decorations shopping in Kolkata. Come December, the place has a completely different energy, with shops and stalls overflowing with Christmas trees, baubles, lights, stars and all those little things that somehow make you believe you need to decorate your house like Santa himself is moving in!
For me, however, visiting New Market is also a convenient excuse whenever I get a craving for Chana Batura.
The pavement on Bertram Street has some of the yummiest Chana Batura you can find. And if you're up for the full experience, you don't just eat it—you sit on one of those narrow little benches on the sidewalk, surrounded by millions of people, with the constant hustle and bustle of what is probably one of the busiest places in Kolkata happening all around you.
It's hardly fine dining, but that's precisely the point.
There is something wonderfully Kolkata about sitting on a pavement, balancing a plate of hot, fluffy Batura and spicy Chana, while pedestrians, shoppers, hawkers, taxis and just about everything else in the city rushes past you.
And once you've polished that plate off, the next logical step is a fresh fruit juice.
Chana Batura followed by a glass of freshly squeezed fruit juice—and suddenly you're ready to take on New Market, the Christmas crowds and probably another round of shopping you never intended to do in the first place!
That's my kind of Christmas shopping. 🎄😋
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