नोएडा के फ़्लैट तक पहाड़ की दुकानों का सामान, बिना किसी बिचौलिये के।
Noida is a city of new apartment blocks and long workdays, and a weekend trip to a hill-food stall in Delhi is not always on the cards. Ordering from the shops themselves is simpler: pick what you miss, and the family shop in the hills that makes it packs it and sends it to your sector.
Most people start with the everyday things that are hardest to replace: a bag of gahat for winter dal, madua flour for rotis, a jar of hill ghee, and a loon or two for cucumber and curd. Each product page says which shop made it, where, and how, so you know whose kitchen it came from. Cash on delivery is offered where the shop allows it.
Ghughutiya comes in mid-January, when Kumaoni households fry ghughute from flour and jaggery and string them into garlands for the children to wear and share with the crows. Across Delhi NCR, including Noida, hill communities hold Uttarayani melas around Makar Sankranti. For anyone making ghughute at home in a Noida flat, the jaggery, ghee and hill flours are here.
Kitchens in high-rise flats run warm, especially in a Noida May. Ghee will stay liquid on a sunny shelf, which is fine; keep it in a closed cupboard instead. Store pickles out of direct sun from the balcony window, and keep madua and other stone-ground flours in the fridge from June to September.