$0.70 Beef Haleem in Karachi 🇵🇰

I was wandering the streets of Karachi, looking for some authentic Pakistani cuisine, when a local man I met recommended that I try Haleem. He told me it's one of the most famous foods in the city.

Haleem is like a thick lentil soup with shreds of meat. It's cooked in huge pots and has to continuously stirred for hours while it's cooking.

The local man, Mr Nabeel, told me he had eaten at Jahanzaib Haleem many times and their Haleem was delicious. Since we were standing almost right in front of the restaurant and I was hungry, it was an obvious decision to make that the place I have my first meal in Pakistan.

As I walked into their shop I looked at the menu board on the wall. The menu was written in English instead of Urdu which was surprising but most helpful. It seems English is used a lot in Pakistan, especially on signs. Some shops have their nameboard displayed in only English, others in only Urdu and other have both.

It was a small menu with only two different meals available, Haleem and Biryani. If a restaurant specialises and sells just one or two items like this then those items must be exceptionally good.

There were two types of haleem available. Beef and chicken. I took the restaurant staff's recommendation to go for beef, taking the smallest portion of 250 grams so that I'd hopefully have room to try the chicken one after it.

Each plate is weighed to make sure you get the portion size that you paid for. My 250 gram plate of Beef Haleem, which was actually a pretty decent portion, was just 120 Pakistani rupees ($0.68 USD). Really incredible value for money.

My reaction to my first spoonful of Beef Haleem was "WOW!", the level of flavour was intense. I wasn't expecting it to have so much spice in it. The best way I could describe it is if you've ever eaten a really thick bowl of dal that's made with a lot of masala, it's like that, but with shreds of tender beef mixed through it.

I cleared the plate quickly and then ordered the chicken version. It was also very tasty but the beef one was the winner in my opinion, especially with the added lemon and crispy fried onions added to it.

I'd worked up a bit of a thirst eating the Haleems (plural) and walked down the street to where I'd seen a sugar cane juice stall earlier. I was drinking the fresh sugar cane juice regularly throughout my adventures in India so I was pleased to see that it's easily available in Pakistan too.

One large glass of fresh juice, about 500 ml, cost only 30 PKR ($0.17 USD). Again, absolutely incredible value for money.

There were a bunch of small stalls around the area so after the sugar cane I visited one selling coconut, which I learned from the local guys is called "copra". A slice of copra was just 20 PLK ($0.11 USD).

📍 Jahanzaib Haleem, Gulshan 13-B Block, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

0:00 Beef Haleem
8:07 Chicken Haleem
11:09 Sugar Cane Juice
15:39 Coconut

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