Food Carts Stirring Pots At Paribagh

Food carts are quite common across Dhaka city and are often considered as one of the prime examples of street food outlet.

Before, there were food carts and roadside vendors serving typical foods in the city. But in recent times, food carts seem to be catching people’s fancy with a variety of restaurant items.

Dhaka, being a food lover’s paradise, has some of these food carts in the form of mobile kitchens near Paribag, Dhanmondi, Khilgoan Taltola, Polashi, Azimpur and Hatirjeel which shell out different mouth-watering delicacies on a regular basis.

It was by pure chance that I passed by a food cart near Paribag. The exact spot is near to the BTCL Building takes places. This was the first food cart of Paribag Street and it is called Pizza Live.

This concept was conceived by a group of young entrepreneurs and this was their first food cart and very soon they wish to operate few more across the city. The staff of the truck is always dressed with hygienic hair caps and gloves. The reason they call it Pizza Live and not just another food cart is because of the pizza processing technique that is being served.

“Pizza is basically from Italy. In Italy, the Pizzas are very thin and are baked in wood fire. But there was no shop in Dhaka offering wood-fired pizza. So primarily for experiment, I started this food cart”, says Asif Zaman Rupam, owner of the cart.