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What could be better than the world-famous Hyderabadi Biryani to start the list of the most famous Hyderabad street food items!

This is one of the most famous Hyderabad street food which can be found in almost every corner of the city. It is a delicious and yummy meaty main course made of rice and is served with the perfect blend of spices and flavour which is hard to forget.

• Best Places to Try: Pragati Gully, Madina near Charminar and Sindhi Colony

This is one of the most popular street foods in the city and is served in some of the best street food places in Hyderabad. Made especially during the Ramadan festival, Phirni is also available throughout the year and is a must-try delicacy here.

It is made up of rice, milk and sugar and is an extravagant treat for your taste buds. It is both made and served in small clay pots giving it a unique earthen flavour altogether. We assure you, you won’t be able to stop at just one!

• Best Places to Try: Hotel Shah Ghouse, Grand Trunk Road

Hyderabad Haleem is a street food in Hyderabad which is found in a plethora of areas, each one being better than the other. Being immensely popular since the Nizam rule when it was first introduced in the city, this is an Arabic dish which boasts of traditional spices thereby giving it a local touch.

Lentils, pounded wheat and meat are together boiled to make the stew and then a thick paste which is a hot favourite amongst the locals during the holy month of Ramadan.

• Best Places to Try: Shah Gouse Café, Pista House and Hotel Shadab

This is a light coloured tea which consists ¾th parts of whole milk and 1/4^th parts tea decoction and is in the face of a superb dessert in a cup. Served with some of the most buttery and melt-in-the-mouth biscuits, this Iranian Chai is a very popular Hyderabad street food.

• Best Places to Try: Alpha Café, Shah Gouse, Charminar Market and Paradise Café

Being a popular Indian dessert which boasts of vermicelli in milk and rose syrup, falooda is topped with sweet basil seeds and jelly pieces. To this, a scoop of ice-cream is added to make it a heavenly delight.

No matter how full you are after a scrumptious meal in the city of Hyderabad, you will always find some place for this dessert in your stomach!

• Best Places to Try: Bilal Ice Creams or Paradise Bakery

Hyderabad street food is just incomplete without the variety of snacks that it serves from pan India. Be it the regular samosas, masala puri, hot Mirchi bajji, kachoris, missal pav or simply anything under the sun which will make a chaat lover fall in love with chaat all over again! Try out any of these items any time of the day and your day will be made.

• Best Places to Try: Sardaarji’s Chaat at Gachibowli, Gokul Chaat at Koti and Bikanerwala

Another one of the most sought-after Hyderabad famous street food is Qubani ka Meetha. People say that your trip to the city of Nizams is incomplete if you do not try this authentic dessert!

Dried apricots are used to make this sweet and are topped with almonds. Served with ice-cream or garnished with thick cream or malai, Qubani ka meetha will not allow you to stop at just one serving!

• Best Places to Try: Mozamjahi Market, Parivar Dhaba and Utsav in Secunderabad

Simply head to any of the tiffin stalls which are spread throughout the city and order the dos of your choice – masala, paneer, cheese and much more – and take our word for it you are going to love it. Even if you have cooked dosas at home before, they will simply be no match for the ones served here.

One of the Hyderabad famous street food which is commonly served as breakfast in the state, these dosas are healthy and yummy at the same time. Also, do try the Pesarattu Dosa which is a nutritious variant made of moong dal and is served with mouth-watering ginger chutney.

• Best Places to Try: Pragati Gully, Lakshman ki Bandi in Begum Bazaar or Charminar Market

Nihari is a mouth-watering lamb stew which is an Eid speciality and is just going to leave your taste-buds asking for more. The marrow and the brain of the lamb are usually used when cooking Nihari.

Cooked overnight and even buried underground to allow the spices and flavours to seep deep into the meat, this is one dish which you simply cannot miss, especially if you are a meat lover!

• Best Places to Try: Hotel Shadab, Sindhi Colony and Charminar Market

Popularly known as ‘Double Roti’, this is a dessert which speaks of flavours and spices which will blow your mind! Bread slices are first soaked in milk after which they are infused with cardamom and saffron.

The name ‘Double Roti’ has been given to it because the bread pieces swell up to double its actual size after being baked. You are sure to find this dessert almost anywhere and everywhere in Hyderabad.

• Best Places to Try: Lakshman ki Bandi, Hameedi Confectioners in Mozamjahi Market and Pragati Gully