Sarafa Bazaar सराफा बाजार

Sarafa Bazaar

Indore as we all know that Indore is famous for food also. Poha and Jalebi both dish of Indore is famous to the whole country.

If you come to Indore and do not roam in Sarafa Bazar of Indore and have not eaten street food there, it means that you have not roamed complete Indore.

Sarafa Bazaar is a jewellery market and night street food court located in central Indore. Indore’s Sarafa is one of the market in India which remains as a jewellery marketplace at daytime and converts itself into a street food court at night.

History Of Sarafa Bazaar

This market originated as the central jewellery market in the city of Indore. This market is located at a distance of 2 km from Rajwada, the central market of Indore,

Sarafa market was the central trading point for artefacts and ornaments. Due to its location and a large number of commuters and tourists in Indore, street food vendors started putting stalls and selling fast-food, snacks and chaat.

This Sarafa Bazaar consists of two sub-markets, Bada Sarafa Bazaar and Chhota Sarafa Bazaar. Sarafa Bazaar is mainly popular for its cuisine and night lifestyle. After the jewellery market closes, Sarafa Street Food Market opens at 8 PM.

Cuisine of Sarafa Bazaar

Lots of variety of cuisine are available at Sarafa Bazaar. The verities are superb samosas, kachoris, pani puri, pav bhaji, chhole tikiyas, Ratalu, Coconut Crush, Khopra Pattice, Bhutte ka Kees, sabudana ki khichdi, maalpua, poha and so on.

There are quite a few permanent restaurants too and also have some popular vendors too such as Joshi’s Dahi Bade (since 1977) (Joshi’s Dahi Bade), Rajhans’s Dal Bafla (Raj’s Dal Bati). All the food is super cheap and the variety is just fantastic.

The food is just amazing and many of them are originate here. These food are spicy, but once you eat this food, you will fall in love with this food..

Here you also get the different types of betel(Paan) such are fire paan, smoke paan, chocolate paan and many more.

Famous and Delicious Cuisine at Sarafa Bazaar

Poha:

Poha is a signature breakfast dish of Indore. It is light, mild and severed with spicy crunchy missal. This snack is produced by two opposite partners, one from Maharashtra and the other from Arabic religion.

Butte ka Kees:

This is a mouth-melting dish. It is a seasonal speciality dish made of corn, chopped and cooked with milk, coconut and spices until it attains a moist, smooth texture.

Malpua:

Malpua is a tin pancake. These thin pancakes are made up of flour, khoya (solid milk) and semolina are deep-fried and dipped in sugar syrup, and are often served with rabdi to make it a delicious dish.

Khopra Patties:

Khopra Patties are potato balls with a core of stuffed coconut which is fried in oil. These balls are fried in front of the customer and served with tangy tamarind chutney. Try these at Vijay Chat House.

10 flavours of pani puri:

Sarafa Bazaar is well known for its decades-old stalls serving delicious chaat. Here you got 10 different flavours of pani-puri like jeera, hajmola, sada, lahsun and more. You must have to try it.

Dal-Bafla:

Dal-Bafla and Churma is a Rajasthani Cuisine. Bafla is an oven-baked ball made with wheat and semolina, which is dipped in ghee before being served with dal, churma, coriander-mint chutney and mango pickle. Taste the dal bafla at Rajhans hotel.

Timing Of Sarafa Bazaar

It’s a good thought that you know the time of the place before a visit to that place. And Sarafa, Jewellery market converts at 8 PM into Sarafa Food Court and opens all the days of the week. And Sarafa Food Court closes at 2 AM.

How to reach

To reach Sarafa Bazaar doesn’t have any issue because this place was at an excellent location in the city. Sarafa Bazaar is just 2 km from the railway station, 4 km from bus stand and 6 km from the airport. You can reach this place easily via cabs, auto-rickshaws, personal vehicles and also with the city bus.

Sarafa Bazaar doesn’t have a good arrangement of 4 wheeler parking because Sarafa Bazaar has a very narrow street. You have to park your vehicles far away from this market.