Iti Misra (centre), a chef from Calcutta, at the inauguration of a Bengali food festival at hotel Maurya on Friday. To mark the Bengali New Year - Poila Baisakh - the hotel has brought for Patna residents a treat for their tastebuds.

Inaugurating the event with Misra, a retired airline executive, was the hotel management. Some of the delicacies available for the new year revellers are dimer devil (devilled egg), fish roll, kathal shami kebab, prawn cutlet, steamer chicken, daab chingri (prawns in coconut shell), fried llish (fried hilsa), bhetki paturi, mangshor jhol, potol dolma, chhanar dalna and sweet dishes like pati-shapta, patali-gurer payesh and kamola bhog. Text by SM Shahbaz, picture by Nagendra Kumar Singh