Namaste, As-salamu alaykum friends.
I'm going somewhere very special today.
This restaurant has been around since 1948.
It is called Gulam Rasool Chane Wala.
And you might be wondering why is it called,
No, Gulam?
Did I say Gulab or Gulam in the intro? –Gulam Rasool. Haan, I said Gulam.
Why is it called Gulam? Gulam means 'slave.'
So Slave Rasool. It means he's actually the slave to God.
So we're gonna go there and you're gonna see the difference between,
chane or chickpeas in India versus Pakistan.
There's one huge difference that you're gonna see here in Pakistan.
And I'm looking forward to trying this chole. This chane. These chickpeas.
This is Pakistani style.
So let's go and check it out and this is my friend Fahad.
Hello! How are you guys?
He's a very good guy. He sent sweets with me to India.
When I came to know the sweets are going to India, I had to do this.
I always want to spread the message of love, peace and prosperity among both nations.
And I hope the future for both nations goes positive.
So yeah I gave them to my wife and she shared them with all of our family at home.
They've gone from Delhi to Haryana and they're going to Rajasthan next.
She's sharing 'em with everybody she's traveling around and meeting all of our family.
It's gone to our neighbors and you know what our neighbors said?
They said, "Oh, I didn't know Pakistanis were so friendly, so nice."
Thank you.
I thought that was pretty funny. Sad but funny.
So yeah, had a nice impact.
And how did you like the sweets that came from India?
I loved it. Especially those Laddoo.
They were 'Motichoor.'
I think they tasted really tasty, sweet, and different.
Different from Pakistani ones. –We gave him Motichoor laddu from Gulab.
These are very very special laddu
and they're different to the motichoor you have here in Pakistan.
Bro, how do you like my salwar kameez? I got this made in Lahore.
What do I look like?
You look like...
You look like a KPK guy, you look fancy, Mashallah.
We use the word Mashallah when a person looks graceful and
fancy, so that you don't catch a bad eye.
People in the street keep stopping and speaking to me in Pashto language.
People keep thinking I'm a Pathan.
I'm like, "Oh man, I can speak Urdu..." and they look at me they're like...
"Oh!"
"He's definitely from..."
When you're trying to speak Urdu you sound more like a Pashtun guy who's speaking Urdu.
Because their mother language is Pashto so they try to, you know communicate.
So you sound more like Pashtun.
Sounding and looking like Pathan.
It confuses so many people.
I get asked for directions all the time.
Motorcyclists will stop me and ask for directions.
I don't know why but I know how to give 'em directions.
Actually, I've been quite successful in helping 'em reach their destinations.
I know Lahore that well now.
So now you have to be a Lahori guy now.
Yeah... No, I'll always be a Haryanvi.
–Haryanvi... Now you have to do things Lahori style.
I don't think there is much difference between Delhiite and Lahori.
I heard a lot that Lahore and Delhi they are almost the same.
Yeah, you can call them sister cities.
Sister cities, yeap. –They are very very similar.
Like Lahore is a mix of Amritsar and Delhi, as far as I can tell.
There is even a Delhi gate here, right?
Yea because Amritsar is just next to Wagah Border.
So I think there won't be any language difference.
We might sound the same, right?
Yeah, the same. They speak Punjabi, you guys speak Punjabi.
But I'm not sure about Delhi people. They do speak exactly like us?
I think Pakistani Punjabi is a slightly different dialect.
But everyone can understand each other.
Because our accent is like, you know when Lahori speaks Punjabi, it's entirely different.
That's accent, the difference.
But I think Amritsari is almost the same because it's nearby.
Yeah.
And then if you look at Delhi. Delhi has signs in 4 languages.
We have signs in English, Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi.
So Delhi uses 4 different languages in their signs.
Yeah, all the languages are there in Delhi,
cuz there's tons of Punjabis in Delhi.
Tons of Urdu speakers too in Delhi.
Because Delhi is in Punjab, right?
No, Delhi is surrounded by
Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and next to Haryana is Punjab.
But Punjab and Haryana used to be one.
So, won't have any language issues there.
No language issues man.
If you go there you'll feel like you're in Lahore.
I felt like I'm in Delhi just on these streets.
I so wanna travel India. I will, one day.
Ok, ok let's go and eat chickpeas now.
Let's get to this restaurant, Ghulam Rasool Chanay Wala.
Come, let's eat!
Wow, so definitely an old part of Lahore.
And like he said, there's cycle shops everywhere.
We have to go this side. –Ok.
Down through this little lane.
These guys are selling dates.
He's on a cycle.
This guy is selling garam Gulab Jamun.
How's my reading?
Greetings, sir.
There's a bunch of restaurants around here.
So he's busy.
Little dude wants some chickpeas.
And let me just show you what they have here.
So he's busy making the chickpeas.
And you can take eggs with them.
Or you can take...
mutton piece with the chickpeas as well.
And there's tons of oil. The oil makes it taste really good.
And it's kind of this simple.
This is a very quite small restaurant for Pakistan.
They also have family side so we're like two guys, so, they let us sit here.
I should explain that actually.
In a lot of Pakistani restaurants, there's two sitting areas.
There is one for family and there is one for single dudes
or just dudes hanging out.
There is that separation, I guess it's from Muslim culture.
Things like that are separated, even at weddings, for example.
The women are separated on one side and the men are separated on another side of wedding venue.
It's the same in restaurants.
Now what we have here?
This is called Yakni and it's like a meat broth, like a meat soup.
It's the stock from the meat.
I don't think there's any meat in there.
Maybe a few little pieces.
But it's the soup you're gonna drink first.
Oh, yum!
This yakni is so different, man.
I wait for winters to drink this yakni.
This is from mutton.
You can taste it's mutton.
This is the water from the mutton they're boiling over there.
So there's tons of flavor in it.
Shouldn't waste this, yeah.
It helps from seasonal flu, concussion...
or when you have like runny nose.
Yeah, it helps with sickness.
Look at this!
Ok, let me show you what we got.
This is mutton with chickpeas.
And this is an epic piece of mutton. Ok?
This is not the bony piece.
This is all flesh and it's just gigantic.
I'm really impressed.
Gigantic piece of mutton.
Then we have naan bread.
There is a tandoor right next door where they're baking this bread fresh.
Greetings.
How are you? - Fine.
These guys are making the bread in the tandoor.
So this is just a clay oven.
And he's just dumping the naan in there.
You can see it baking and it comes out just like that.
He uses these tongs to pull it out.
And, oh, the next thing.
They also serve this.
So chickpeas with egg and this is kind of meat kofta, a meat-ball.
So this is exactly what you get here,
and yeah, not pure vegetarian.
You can probably get a plate of chickpeas,
but oftentimes they have used stock with the chickpeas.
They have used meat stock with the chickpeas,
so it's not pure vegetarian food.
Even when you think something is vegetarian here, it's not.
Cuz they have used stock. –Exactly.
Let's try the mutton first.
Oh, yeah! Look at that!
It just breaks, just falls off like that.
The mutton is super soft.
Like it just fell off right then.
It's that soft.
And it's not super spicy, it is just lightly spiced.
Now for the chickpeas...
I love chickpeas and I came here for the chickpeas.
Now, try chickpeas with the meat.
Yeah.
The chickpeas are good. They are far more lightly spiced than India.
The main spice you will taste is black pepper actually.
Black pepper is the main spice you taste here.
It's really good.
You know, sometimes I wish in Pakistan that I could just get pure vegetarian meal.
Sometimes I wish that.
Because meat is very heavy.
But this is how they do it here.
I think that's something that came from India, for me.
I became, I started to love vegetarian food.
Because majority of people in India are vegetarian lovers, right? - No.
Over half the population are meat eaters. –I didn't know.
But, yeah, a lot of people do eat veg only.
Compared to other countries, they probably have the most number of vegetarians.
Sometimes I just want veg food, you know what I mean? - No.
One other difference in Pakistan, there is way more oil on things.
The food is way more oily here.
This is just a meatball made with mutton I think.
Ok, the meatball isn't my favorite.
I don't like the kofta, its got funny taste.
Try it see what you think.
But the chickpeas and the mutton are awesome.
As you can see, the restaurant is totally full with people now here for lunch.
Actually this is my favorite meal in India as well.
We have Chole Bhature.
And it's chickpeas and big fluffy puris.
The chickpeas is totally different.
It's the same right? Because we call it 'Naan Chane.'
We'll go for some egg as well.
Pakistanis love eggs. That's one thing I realized here.
Because it's high in protein.
Egg in everything like in Biryani,
for breakfast you have half-fried egg with parantha.
Now egg with chole.
The egg with chickpeas is amazing. Perfect.
That's what I'd go for probably rather than the meat version
because the meat is so heavy.
Just egg and chickpea is fantastic.
So I think you're seeing the big main difference between Pakistani food and Indian veg food.
This is not pure vegetarian food.
They add meat to everything in Pakistan.
So you've got chickpeas,
but they'll add mutton or egg or something else into it.
You've got yellow daal but they'll add-in, chicken.
We call it daal gosht.
There is another one.
So in India, we have matar paneer.
In Pakistan, they have keema matar.
Like minced meat and peas and it's so delicious.
But that's the big difference between Indian and Pakistani food.
It's kinda like New Zealand where I come from.
We add meat in everything as well.
We are meat-eating nations: both New Zealand and Pakistan.
Now we're just gonna finish off with the tea...
and I'll put the link to this place in the description, you can come here.
And I've written a whole blog on my favourite spots to eat in Lahore.
So, this is gonna be one of those spots for you to come and eat,
if you ever travel to Lahore.