Mezban (locally known as Mejjan) is one of the most popular social festival of the Chittagong region in Bangladesh. The word "Mezban" in Persian means host and "Mezbani" means hosting or arranging a feast for the guests. Historically Mezbani is a traditional regional feast where people are invited to enjoy a meal with white rice and beef etc,that depends on the event to event was held on the occasions such as death anniversary,The invitation of the Mezban ceremony generally remains open for all and various people to different places and neighborhoods convey the invitation for the feast.Usually, the consumption of food at Mezbani takes place from morning to afternoon. Anyone can come to eat Mezban.Mezban is commonly called Mejjan in the local language of Chittagong.
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Traditionally Mezban is a beef-dominated meal and a symbol of social prestige.It has a prominent style of cooking and proper Mezban meat demands a certain skill.Spicy beef cooked with a lot of red chilies
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Less hot but sour and spicy broth made from the tubular bone of a cow.
A kind of pulse which is cooked after peeling the skin of beans and then crushing them; it is called Bhuna dal
Food of slightly pungent taste made from chick-pea pulse, bone, fat, and meat.
Mezban is now popular cuisine all over the country.
There is a lots of restaurants in chittagong who serve mezbani cuisine.
List of those restaurant. Click here
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