Tantalising the taste buds

Walking through the streets of Pakistan is a complete sensory experience. The sights and smells tantalise the taste buds as nearly all activity on the pavement involves food, both raw and ready to eat.

Fruit and vegetable vendors shout out prices and are miraculously still heard above the deafening exhausts of rickshaws and the horns of buses and cars. And through bumper-to-bumper traffic, people find their way to a vendor’s side, drawn in by aromatic smoke rising from their heavily laden stalls selling pakoras, samosas, haleem and biryanis. People in cars pull right up to open-air restaurants and seat themselves on fold-out furniture, while calling for chicken tikkas on the bone, kebab rolls and fresh naans from the tandoor.