It can be a little overwhelming getting briyani at Tekka Market because there's a number of them clustered in the food centre. The other briyani which I remember having here was Yakader some years back. Don't know if I've ever had Allaudin's (#01-232 Tekka Market & Food Centre, 665 Buffalo Road) or if this was my first.
Allaudin's doesn't do dum briyani. Their rendition is the regular one where the meat is cooked separately from the rice. While some may think that it takes away from the flavour of the rice, I could taste the spices infused in it and if you're looking for more, there's also the side of tangy achar and a pretty solid dalcha. The mutton was delicious and fork tender. Let me take a step further and narrow that description down to something a little more precise. It's plastic fork tender. I could extract all the meat cleanly off the bone using those irritatingly flimsy plastic utensils.
What's special about the dalcha? It's creamy and packed with the flavour of mutton along with a light manageable warmth from the spices. The cloudy and curry stained piece floating in the bowl is a chunk of mutton fat. Tender almost like bean curd and disintegrates in the mouth almost like bean curd as well. So good with the rice, egg or the papadum.
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