Traditional food of Dhaka: 9 dishes

• Shorshe ilish সর্ষে ইলিশ · Main dish · Padma river

  Ilish, or hilsa, is a shad that swims up the great rivers of Bengal from the sea to spawn in the monsoon, and it is the national fish of Bangladesh.

• Fuchka ফুচকা · Street food · Dhaka

  Fuchka is the Bengali form of the crisp, hollow balls known as panipuri or golgappa elsewhere in South Asia.

• Kacchi biryani কাচ্চি বিরিয়ানি · Rice dish · Dhaka

  Kacchi biryani is a special form of biryani in which raw meat is cooked together with fragrant rice, ghee or oil and warm spices.

• Bakarkhani বাকরখানি · Bread & pastry · Dhaka

  Bakarkhani is a thick, layered flatbread with a hard, almost biscuit-like crust, made from flour and ghee and sometimes sweetened.

• Morog polao মোরগ পোলাও · Rice dish · Dhaka

  Morog polao is a traditional Bengali dish that originated in Old Dhaka and is now very popular among Bengalis all over Bangladesh.

• Chotpoti চটপটি · Street food · Dhaka

  Chotpoti is a warm Bengali street snack of boiled dried peas (dubli) and potatoes with onions, topped with chopped chillies, grated boiled egg, tamarind chutney, coriander, cumin and crushed crispy puri.

• Borhani বোরহানি · Drink · Dhaka

  Borhani is a savoury yoghurt drink made from sour doi beaten with green chilli, mustard seeds, black salt, coriander and mint, and some consider it a kind of lassi.

• Porabari chomchom পোড়াবাড়ির চমচম · Dessert · Dhaka

  Chomchom is an oval sweet made from chhena, fresh cheese curds, and often coated with coconut or mawa flakes; it comes in light pink, light yellow and white, and the famous Porabari version is brown.

• Muktagachha monda মুক্তাগাছার মন্ডা · Dessert · Mymensingh

  Muktagachar monda is a sweet made mainly from milk and sugar, with a few other ingredients sometimes added.

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