Chawlas Fast Food

Our spot is right at 1341 in Kingsway Camp, over in Dr Mukerjee Nagar. If you know this area, you know it’s always packed with students and people rushing to catch the bus. Chawlas Fast Food is basically right in the middle of all that chaos. The kitchen is small and it gets incredibly hot when all the burners are going at once. We start prepping the vegetables and the dough early in the morning so we’re ready for the lunch rush. There are only a few tables and they’re usually wobbling a bit, no matter how many times we try to fix them. The walls are covered in some old menus and a clock that’s about five minutes fast. We don’t have a lot of bells and whistles here. It’s just about getting the food out to the people waiting in line. You can hear the pans clanking and the shouting of orders over the sound of the traffic outside. By evening, the floor gets a bit messy with napkins, but we try to sweep it whenever there’s a quiet minute. It’s a loud, fast place to work, but we like the energy of the neighborhood. Most of the people who come in are regulars who live in the nearby hostels. We know their names and what they usually want without them even saying it. It’s just a basic food joint doing what we do every day.