If you are a Karachite and have never heard of Kaka Bohri Soup, you haven’t really lived in Karachi. Karachi is famous for its food scene, with every big area or market brimming with restaurants, roadside tea stalls, breakfast places and cafes, you can never run out of ideas about your next food excursion.
And if your next food expedition involves devouring some hot and sizzling corn soup and Chana Chaat, then no other name will pop up in anyone’s head than Kaka Bohri Soup. It is one of those old soup places in Karachi that do not need any introduction.
Located in North Nazimabad, Block E, Kaka Bohri Soup’s real name is Al-Hussaini Chicken Corn Soup and Bhail Puri. How he got from his real shop name to Kaka Bohri is still a mystery to everyone.
The famous North Nazimabad soup stop is fully packed and extremely crowded in the months of Winter. The double road leading up to the shop, during those days, is often packed with cars in which people are waiting for their turn to be served.
Their egg chicken soup and simple egg soup is popular for its richness and savoriness. Boiled eggs are cut in pieces and mixed with thick soup, topped with shredded chicken and Paapri to amplify the taste tenfold.
However, that doesn’t mean that their Aalu Chana Paapri aur Masala Aalu are any less delicious. For a true food lover and that too a desi one, there is one silent affirmation about Paapri.
Whatever food you mix with Paapri, its taste level goes instantly up in a second.
Kaka Bohri has unlocked that food secret and has been clearly putting it to great use for years.
The wait time is often way too less than any other soup restaurant. Two three helpers are running around, taking orders from people and instantly delivering it to them.
The best part about this soup shop is the courtesy of the shop owners. Owned by a Bohri couple, this shop has looked and stayed the same over the years, signifying the simplicity and humility of the shop owners.
If you go to them and inquire about their purpose of keeping this shop as it is, they’d respond with a smile and tell you that all they want to do is serve the people who come to them. And if we come to think of it, those places that we have grown up visiting, a small shop in a busy bazaar, an old tailor, a Bun kabab stall, that park around your neighbourhood, or a soup shop that serves delicious egg chicken soup, you want to see them the way they have always been. Unchanged in their look, capacity, menu, or even the way the owners look.
Kaka Bohri believes in the same notion of keeping the legacy alive and unchanged. So if you are in the neighbourhood next time, don’t forget to stop by the soup stop that does not need any introduction.
