A snack before taking off

As we had 1 hour to kill between before going to the airport, Skrikant took us to “Royal Café” for a snack. This place is famous in Lucknow for having the best "chats". We started with little small “pouches” of dough in which they put some chick peas and a cold spicy minty sauce. The idea is that you put it all, in 1 go, in your mouth. It was an interesting combination because you 1st taste the sauce, especially the mint then you bite in the dough and start to taste it and the rest of the spices. Not my favourite but quite an interesting experience. Next we tried some potato mixture fried served in a yogurt sauce with spices. Very good, I believe that one was preferred by most of us. Next we tried the “basket chat”, the specialty of the house, which is the same potato fried thing served with yogurt, vegetables, spices, grenades, and some more. Very good as well, but somehow quite heavy. As drink we had sweet lemon juice, freshly squeezed of course. This was a lot of fun to stand in the street and eat there like Indians do some of the local snacks.