Deepak Tambaku Bhandar

varanasi

Deepak Tambaku Bhandar

No trip to Varanasi is complete without a tasting of its famous paan. There are shops all over the city, but Deepak’s near Dashashwamedh Ghat is most popular. Paan is made from beetle nut leaves with beetle nuts, lime, and a selection of condiments, and generally eaten with a lot with tobacco or lime. A word of caution to those trying this for the first time – both these ingredients can make your head spin, and one should definitely not ignore the statutory warning that comes with any form of tobacco.

The other option is the meetha paan, a version made with tobacco or lime but filled with sweetened rose petals (gulkand), fennel seeds (saunf), and soft and chewy supari (beetle nut).