Also known as the "City of Nawabs", Uttar Pradesh's capital, Lucknow, is famous for its culinary culture, especially the range of juicy and rich kebabs and delicate sweets. Lucknow's cuisine, though dominated by the influence of Awadh, has a distinct mix of delicacies that make the city's street food stand apart. A typical "Sham-e-Awadh", or evening in Lucknow, is incomplete without enjoying the flavours of a plate of pani-puri or the tenderness of a malai paan or malai gilauri. It is common to spot a student returning from college to stop and savour a kebab roll, or an office-goer enjoying chai with a plate of scrumptious aloo tikki.