Years of
Beep beep!
We are two people from Dhaka who could not find the food we grew up on anywhere near our new home in Maryland. Fuchka filled while you wait. Chotpoti with a squeeze of lime. Jhalmuri shaken in a paper cone. So we made it ourselves, at home, for friends. Then their friends asked. Then strangers did.
There was no truck at the start: only pots, a folding table and long nights of frying puri. Everything we earned went back into the next batch, and then into a used truck we painted the way a Dhaka cart is painted. The first day we opened the window, people came, and they have kept coming. Every plate is still made the moment you order it.
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Fresh cilantro and red onion, chopped in the truck before the window opens. It is the first job of every day, because good chaat begins with what goes on top.
Puri in the box, tamarind water in its own cup, so your fuchka is still crisp when you sit down to eat. Every order is packed by hand and checked before it leaves the window.
One reads the ticket and fills the bag, the other mixes the chotpoti to order. We have cooked side by side since the first day, and both of us still have a hand in every plate.
The truck opens at 5 in the evening and serves until 11, every day of the week. The pot stays hot, the puri is filled when you order, and the sauce is poured right then.
Parks, markets, office lunches and community events across Upper Marlboro and Prince George's County. Give us a date and a place, and we bring the whole kitchen. Catering takes parties of 20 or more with a week's notice.
Dinner after a long day, a late craving, or the last stop of a night out all land at the same lit window. Order ahead online, pick up, or eat right at the truck, and on weekends look for Shahi Jhalmuri on the board.
Two of us started it and two of us still run it: the kitchen, the window and every catering order.
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