This week, Kolachi did a short feature on the mainstay of my day - doodh patti.
Kolachi spoke to Zaman Khan (not his real name), owner of a tea dhaba in Saddar, to find out. “People in Karachi are always busy, frustrated, and overworked. When they come to a dhaba, they want something strong enough to take their mind off things.”
…”I don’t want to name them, but there are a few dhaba owners who extract opium from its stem, grind the stem left behind and let it boil in the tea.“
What?! Is this yet another one of those Karachiite secrets I wasn’t privy to, or just another urban legend akin to the ‘Slims has drugs in it to make it more addictive’ story?
Saturday, January 24, 2009
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