More on its way

We are totally loving the increase in the number of page views and want to let you know that we are working on a new website that should be up and running soon.

In the mean time here is an update of what is coming up with Horn Ok Please.

As usual we will be at our Market Stalls on:

Thursday and Friday every week - Trading at Surrey Street Market, Croydon 11am till we sell out
Menu: Potato and Paneer Dosa wraps, Pani Puri, Bhel Puri

Saturday and Sunday every week - Trading at Boiler House Food Hall, Brick Lane 10:30am to 5:30pm
Menu: Bhel Puri, Pani Puri, Samosa Chaat, Aloo Tikki Chaat, Paneer wraps (roti), Masala Dosa wraps, or the most popular Chaat Tasting Plater (aka A Bit of Everything)

And in addition will be popping up at the following events and festivals:

28th and 29th March at the Lonely Planet Street Food Festival to celebrate the launch of its new book 'The World's Best Street Food'. We will be serving up fresh Jalebi and Bhel Puri.

13th - 15th and 20th - 22nd April at the Real Food Fest in London's Southbank celebrating 'Taste of India' where we will be serving our most popular dishes - Dosa wraps (several filling options), Samosa Chaat, Bhel Puri, Pani Puri and more.

31st June and 1st July at the Purley Festival 

With more to come Summer 2012 is going to busy and we are excited to be bringing a fresh taste of Indian food to London.

What's in a name - Horn Ok Please

I recently put up some photos on my Facebook page (see link on the left) of truck art that I took on my recent trip and was going to write a post on truck art and the tag 'Horn Ok Please' but this I found this very informative blog entry by Design Mind...hope you lie it.

http://designmind.frogdesign.com/blog/horn-ok-please.html

Working on new menu items

After a lot of prep and getting some practice in dishing up delish Indian Street Food at Brick Lane Market we are finally set to start trading during the week. And what a cold week to be starting!

Wednesday is set as D Day and before then we are working on a few dishes...here is what will be on offer:

Stuffed Dosa and Paratas - choice of paneer, masala (potato) or mixed veg - potentially egg parata as well
- served with tomato chutney and small soup of the day

Spiced Lentil Soup

Sev Usal (pea and potato stew with sev topping)

Masala Chai

Come down and see us at Croydon's Surrey Street Market.

S & G

R&D in India, Trading in Brick Lane

Trading began for 2012 this weekend at Brick Lane while one arm of HOP was working on research in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

And in the name of research I have managed to eat my way through 3 plates of Jalebi's in one sitting at breakfast:

Sample Egg Burji (spiced scrambled eggs with very very buttery toast) at Midnight from a stall that would never pass health inspection in the UK:

and eat my way through several plates of Chaat:

all in just 24 hours and not including the cups of chai and home cooking.

We have a HOP logo!

Thanks to Bank Phongsak of Inner Design Studio for helping us develop our new logo. We started with four concept options:

and chose to develop the fourth to come up with our final design. We wanted to show the 'horn' and give it a 'street' feel which we think is achieved. And although we liked the 2nd and 3rd a lot (and we will be using elements of these two to some degree) we felt 4 was more adaptable for use on packaging, flyers and website. So here is the final design:

(c) Horn Ok Please Copyright 2011

Thanks everyone who gave us their feedback during the development stage. Much appreciated :)

(Logo copy rights belongs to Horn Ok Please)

Food Blogs

While surfing the web this morning I came these two blogs about food, restaurants and markets. Check them out and feel free to post your favourites too.

http://cheesenbiscuits.blogspot.com/

http://theskinnybib.com/

Trading News

Time has flown since the last post about our first day of trade. 2 months and 12 days to be exact. Since then we have been trading most weekends (except for two in October) at the Boiler House and attracting a growing number of customers. The menu has been evolving over the time to keep up with customer feedback, for instance ever weekend we have at least 5 customers asking about Pani Puri so it was introduced 2 weeks back. The next addition will most likely be Pav Bhaji.

Our current menu includes:

Pani Puri

Bhel Puri

Samosa Chaat

Aloo Tikki

Paneer Skewers

Moong Dal Chilla (Dosa)

While VadaPav has been put on hold we may introduce it down the line.

The feedback from customers so far has been a mixture of 'is this Indian food?' to 'finally chaat in London'. This has confirmed to us that we are on the right track in taking Londoners on a journey beyond the generic curry house fare they are used to.

So what next? Well we will be continuing trading at the Boiler House for the time being and will be introducing a week day pitch very soon. So keep checking back. We will also be launching our website soon with potentially an on-line shopping element and will also be opening up for catering requests.