Ghee biscuits

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"Let me go home
It'll all be all right
I'll be home tonight
I'm coming back home"

 With my earphones playing this on repeat in addition to gentle breeze hitting my face, that's what I had been doing when....

 Nei biscuits. 5 for INR 10.

The second best thing that can happen in Chennai urban train other than getting a seat(ofcourse) is seeing a vendors sell your favorite goodies. If you have traveled by train, you would hear the vendors selling their produce despite your earphones blasting your ears. Among the several items that are sold on train , my favorites are onion samosa and ghee biscuits.
Ghee biscuits are very common in roadside tea shops as well. Ghee biscuits are soft and melt-in-your-mouth cookies that have not-so-subtle hints of cinnamon. They are perhaps the Indian version of shortbread as ghee is nothing but clarified butter.
Ghee biscuits (better known as nei biscuits in Tamil Nadu) have a wonderful ghee taste that is often hard to replicate.


(Article & Photograph - Mirudhulaa Padmanaban)

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