Date: 13 July 2014
Venue: Dilli Haat, Pitam Pura
Dill Haat, Pitam Pura , the poor cousin of INA Delhi Haat, comes to life every year with the annual Mango Festival. Organised by Delhi Tourism, Mango Festival 2014 brought several varieties of Mangoes to Delhi people. With all sort of cute names, these mangoes managed to entice enough visitors to the fair and make this “aam” festival really khaas.
As soon as we entered Mango Festival we saw “aam kulfi” which was basically a natural frozen mango on an ice cream stick. Not your typical mango-pulp-in-milk kulfi, this one looked cool and tasted even better.
After that there were few stalls of pickles, murabbas, candies etc. These looked like permanent stalls and were not really a part of the Mango Festival.
Delhi Tourism had arranged a mango quiz at the amphitheatre. Kids were answering questions about mangoes and winning prizes.
For some strange reason, mangoes -The main attraction of Mango Festival were pushed to the back end of Dilli Haat. This was even behind the food court (saving the best for last?). Several varieties of mangoes were available for sale here. To avoid the effort of weighing it at the fair, all mangoes were packed in big boxes/cartons. Apart from a couple of stalls where they had small box packs, most of the stalls had packs of 4 Kgs plus. This discouraged a lot of people who wanted to buy smaller packs for tasting different mangoes.
We bought a few big-small boxes of mangoes with funny names for friends and family and had aam panna with choley bhaturey at the food court for lunch. A light drizzle in the windy afternoon completed our experience of the Mango Festival.
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