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Varanasi, India
6 dishes to eat in Varanasi, what is in them, and where they belong.
Fried lentil-stuffed bread with spiced potato, the standard breakfast.
A vegetarian platter of the local preparations, no onion or garlic in the temple style.
A winter-only saffron milk foam, whipped overnight in the dew and gone by mid-morning.
A Varanasi-specific chaat of crushed spiced tomato, served hot in a clay cup.
Thick sweet yoghurt in an unglazed clay cup, which is then thrown away.
Baked wheat balls with mashed smoked aubergine and tomato, an eastern UP dish.
