GANGES

Ganges serves food prepared in the Indian cuisine. Indian cuisine dates back a long way from the times of the Vedic Hindus till the present period. Indian cuisine has gone through a lot of change due to the influence of the Mughals, the British, the Portuguese etc. Indian cuisine has different aspects attached to it, for example, for frying mustard oil is more popular in eastern India, where as coconut oil is more prevalent in southern Indian and groundnut oil in northern India. Indian cuisine uses a lot of pulses along with rice and atta. The two major categories of Indian cuisine are the North Indian and South Indian cuisine. They are very different from each other in many ways than one. For example, the use of hot spices like Garam Masala is more extensively done in North Indian cuisine than in South Indian cuisine. North Indian cuisine uses a lot of dairy based products like ghee, paneer etc. North Indian cuisine allows the use of Tandoor ovens a lot. For example, items prepared in Tandoor ovens like Nan, Tandoori chicken are very popular. Whereas in south Indian cuisine the use of rice based items are more common. South Indian cuisine also allows a free hand in vegetarian dishes and the Udupi style of vegetarian cooking is very popular and in demand as well.

Ganges is famous for the high quality and mouth watering Indian cuisine food that they offer. The place is calm and its gives a feeling of freshness to the people eating out there. The special dishes that are offered in Ganges restaurant are Varanasi Special for vegetarians at a price of ¥ 2700 along with Chefs Special and Ganges Special for the non- vegetarian at a price of ¥ 4600 and ¥ 2900 respectively. Some of the other popular dishes of the Ganges restaurant are the different curries, the Tandoori items, shredded chilli chicken and mixed grill. Ganges restaurant offers curries in two forms, namely, vegetarian and non-vegetarian and one has the option to choose between them.