1. Jadoh
The beating heart of Khasi comfort: fragrant red hill rice simmered low and slow in rich pork broth. It’s what keeps this rock-music capital running when the clouds swallow the town whole.
📍 Trattoria – Police Bazar
📍 Jadoh – Don Bosco Square, Laitumkhrah
2. Dohneiiong
Melt-in-your-mouth pork blanketed in a roasted black sesame gravy that looks like midnight in a bowl. Deep, nutty, and soulful enough to make every other curry feel like an apology.
📍 Trattoria – Police Bazar
📍 Café Shillong – Laitumkhrah
3. Momo
The hill station’s love language: thin, steaming flour pockets bursting with juicy pork and herbs, armed with a fiery red chutney engineered to slice right through a 10°C drizzle.
📍 Roadside stalls opposite Police Bazar Point
📍 Bread Café – GS Road
4. Shillong Aloo Muri
The sacred after-college fuel of puffed rice and spiced potatoes tossed in raw mustard oil and tart tamarind. Best eaten out of a paper cone while gossiping under a pine tree in the mist.
📍 Outside St. Anthony’s College Gate
📍 Khyndailad (PB) Corner
5. Dohkhlieh
A crisp, no-nonsense Khasi pork salad tossed with sharp raw onions and fiery local chilies. Zero heavy grease, pure honest meat, and the easiest way to pretend pork is a health food.
📍 Red Rice – Police Bazar
📍 Local kitchen stalls inside Iewduh (Bara Bazar)
6. Tungrymbai
Fermented soybean paste braised with pork fat, crushed garlic, and green chilies. The aroma announces itself from down the alley, and the deep, earthy umami will haunt your cravings forever.
📍 Traditional Khasi food stalls – Iewduh
📍 Trattoria – Police Bazar
7. Pu Tharo & Pu Doh
Steamed rice cakes cooked in earthen pots that feel like edible clouds. Pick Pu Tharo for soft, subtle sweetness, or Pu Doh when you want your morning carbs secretly stuffed with spiced meat.
📍 Tea shacks inside Bara Bazar
📍 Kong Kalbi – Laitumkhrah
8. Pukhlein
A crispy, chewy golden disc of deep-fried rice flour and jaggery made exclusively by nature to be dunked into boiling red tea while the rain drums on a tin roof.
📍 Police Bazar evening vendors
📍 Laitumkhrah roadside tea stalls
9. Shillong Chowmein
The quintessential hill café ritual: smokey wok-tossed noodles generously laced with roast pork, crunchy greens, and heavy doses of 90s acoustic-rock nostalgia.
📍 Hong Kong Restaurant – Police Bazar
📍 Bamboo Hut – Police Bazar
10. Phan Tungtap
Boiled red potatoes mashed with charred fermented fish and blistered dry red chilies. Smoky, pungent, salty, and guaranteed to hit your tastebuds like a live wire.
📍 Local Khasi stalls in Iewduh
📍 Myntdu Restaurant
11. Sha Saw & Cream Buns
Clear red tea served scalding hot in a chipped glass tumbler alongside an oversized, sugary bakery cream bun – the sacred ritual that keeps chilly fingers from freezing.
📍 Delhi Mistan Bhandar – Police Bazar
📍 Ee Cee Bakery – Police Bazar
Zip up your fleece, let the rain fall, and eat like a true hill-town local.
