In Pictures: Kitchen that feeds 100,000 daily

[agamdilawari]

Can foreigners come?
Looks like a worthwhile experience.

There is a massive Vietnamese pho restaurant in Sydney where people eat from the same looking massive bowls and pretty much the same noodle soup. There is something fantastic about communal eating, especially when everyone is eating the same thing.

Any person and I repeat any person doesn't matter from where he/she belong or believe in can sit for a 'Langar' and enjoy that meal. All u have to do it cover your head with any piece of cloth and leave your footwear outside at the designated place

Purpose of Langar is not just feeding those who can't afford it. The prime purpose is to spread the message of equality. Bring people rich or poor, religious or atheist, black-brown or white, Sikh-Hindu-Muslim or Christian sitting together on same platform have the same meal cooked at the same kitchen...just imagine what a divine feeling it gives not just for those having it but even for those serving it. More than even having 'Langar', it gives more pleasure and satisfaction to take part in its preparation, making breads(roti) by yourself, washing utensils with ur own hands, serving the 'Langar' itself to people...its just very noble.

'Satnam Waheguru'

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Any person and I repeat any person doesn't matter from where he/she belong or believe in can sit for a 'Langar' and enjoy that meal. All u have to do it cover your head with any piece of cloth and leave your footwear outside at the designated place

Purpose of Langar is not just feeding those who can't afford it. The prime purpose is to spread the message of equality. Bring people rich or poor, religious or atheist, black-brown or white, Sikh-Hindu-Muslim or Christian sitting together on same platform have the same meal cooked at the same kitchen...just imagine what a divine feeling it gives not just for those having it but even for those serving it. More than even having 'Langar', it gives more pleasure and satisfaction to take part in its preparation, making breads(roti) by yourself, washing utensils with ur own hands, serving the 'Langar' itself to people...its just very noble.

'Satnam Waheguru'

I went to a Sikh Temple in Hong Kong (as part of a "field trip" while I was in school), and they were extremely welcoming of everybody. There is no distinction, they welcome everybody.

But the thing they gave us to eat, it doesn't look like the thing in the pictures in this thread. It was some sort of sweet snack, do you know what it might be?

 

[fiji]

I went to a Sikh Temple in Hong Kong (as part of a "field trip" while I was in school), and they were extremely welcoming of everybody. There is no distinction, they welcome everybody.

But the thing they gave us to eat, it doesn't look like the thing in the pictures in this thread. It was some sort of sweet snack, do you know what it might be?

Must be halwa.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Must be halwa.

I guess since we were students on a school field trip, they must have thought we would prefer a snack rather than a full meal like in the OP.

Anyway, it tasted really nice.

Though the food in the OP's pictures look even better to me, since I prefer savory dishes. I could probably buy some of those ingredients in HK supermarkets and make some myself one day.

 

[agamdilawari]

I went to a Sikh Temple in Hong Kong (as part of a "field trip" while I was in school), and they were extremely welcoming of everybody. There is no distinction, they welcome everybody.

But the thing they gave us to eat, it doesn't look like the thing in the pictures in this thread. It was some sort of sweet snack, do you know what it might be?

Kada Prashad

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Must be halwa.

Yeah that is the "karha prasad". Apart from the Langar meal that is what one will get at a Gurudwara.

 

[fiji]

Kada Prashad

i went to Sis Ganj Gurudwara chandini chowk few days back and the kada was full of ghee and YUMMY!!

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Any person and I repeat any person doesn't matter from where he/she belong or believe in can sit for a 'Langar' and enjoy that meal. All u have to do it cover your head with any piece of cloth and leave your footwear outside at the designated place

Purpose of Langar is not just feeding those who can't afford it. The prime purpose is to spread the message of equality. Bring people rich or poor, religious or atheist, black-brown or white, Sikh-Hindu-Muslim or Christian sitting together on same platform have the same meal cooked at the same kitchen...just imagine what a divine feeling it gives not just for those having it but even for those serving it. More than even having 'Langar', it gives more pleasure and satisfaction to take part in its preparation, making breads(roti) by yourself, washing utensils with ur own hands, serving the 'Langar' itself to people...its just very noble.

'Satnam Waheguru'

All very correct. Its an activity aimed at being "completely inclusive and participative."

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

i went to Sis Ganj Gurudwara chandini chowk few days back and the kada was full of ghee and YUMMY!!

I checked Google for some pictures and I think you are right, it is a small dish made entirely of this sweet stuff.

And what is ghee?

 

[fiji]

I checked Google for some pictures and I think you are right, it is a small dish made entirely of this sweet stuff.

And what is ghee?

Ghee is a type of clarified butter that is prepared by boiling butter and removing the residue

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Ghee is a type of clarified butter that is prepared by boiling butter and removing the residue

You create ghee by boiling butter?

Damn I am getting so hungry now. I'm going to have to go and make something to eat.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

I checked Google for some pictures and I think you are right, it is a small dish made entirely of this sweet stuff.

And what is ghee?

Ghee is clarified Butter. Unsalted Butter is heated on a low flame and it melts completely, then starts becoming a slightly cream-yellow liquid. Has to be kept stirred frequently through this process. But not too long. Later depending on how long you've been doing it, there is a thin brownish crust that forms at the bottom of th sauce-pan. Switch the flame off and take the sauce-pan off the gas. Strain the liquid through a sieve into your storage container and used that as the coking fat/medium as required instead of the usual fat/oil. Anything that you cook in this will have flavor and fragrance of its own.

Now the best part (according to me); scrape the brown stuff off from the bottom of the sauce pan, and use that separately for cooking. It has a wonderful smoky slightly burnt taste to it which gives an unusual flavor to food especially dry meat dishes or some-thing known as 'tadka dal'.
Many people throw it away, but not where I grew up !

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Ghee is clarified Butter. Unsalted Butter is heated on a low flame and it melts completely, then starts becoming a slightly cream-yellow liquid. Has to be kept stirred frequently through this process. But not too long. Later depending on how long you've been doing it, there is a thin brownish crust that forms at the bottom of th sauce-pan. Switch the flame off and take the sauce-pan off the gas. Strain the liquid through a sieve into your storage container and used that as the coking fat/medium as required instead of the usual fat/oil. Anything that you cook in this will have flavor and fragrance of its own.

Now the best part (according to me); scrape the brown stuff off from the bottom of the sauce pan, and use that separately for cooking. It has a wonderful smoky slightly burnt taste to it which gives an unusual flavor to food especially dry meat dishes or some-thing known as 'tadka dal'.
Many people throw it away, but not where I grew up !

Unfortunately I'm terrible at cooking. I'm enthusiastic though.

I am really interested by this ghee, I'll try to order some pre-made ghee online (for the first time at least) and try eating it with that South Asian style bread, see how it goes.

I have been to Indian restaurants before but I don't remember using ghee on anything.

 

[third eye]

Ghee is clarified Butter. Unsalted Butter is heated on a low flame and it melts completely, then starts becoming a slightly cream-yellow liquid. Has to be kept stirred frequently through this process. But not too long. Later depending on how long you've been doing it, there is a thin brownish crust that forms at the bottom of th sauce-pan. Switch the flame off and take the sauce-pan off the gas. Strain the liquid through a sieve into your storage container and used that as the coking fat/medium as required instead of the usual fat/oil. Anything that you cook in this will have flavor and fragrance of its own.

Now the best part (according to me); scrape the brown stuff off from the bottom of the sauce pan, and use that separately for cooking. It has a wonderful smoky slightly burnt taste to it which gives an unusual flavor to food especially dry meat dishes or some-thing known as 'tadka dal'.
Many people throw it away, but not where I grew up !

That makes two of us....

 

[fiji]

Unfortunately I'm terrible at cooking. I'm enthusiastic though.

I am really interested by this ghee, I'll try to order some pre-made ghee online (for the first time at least) and try eating it with that South Asian style bread, see how it goes.

I have been to Indian restaurants before but I don't remember using ghee on anything.

Mate ghee is not meant to be used that way. Its just an cooking oil.

even iam terrible at cooking