If there’s one food you don’t want to miss in Karachi, it is bone marrow biryani.

There are many restaurant that server different types of Biryani with the two main restaurants being Ghousia Food and Beef Nalli Biryani, which is the most well known, and Qadri Nalli Biryani across the street. 

The biryani is cooked in massive pots with kilos of spices and the main star of the show – giant beef bones. When you order a plate, you get a portion of the fragrant rice, topped with a massive bone of two.

Here’s where things get fun.

It’s up to you to get the marrow out of the bones.

You can do this by punching the bone, hitting it on the table or sidewalk, using the handle of your spoon. Whatever works to get those nuggets of melting juicy bone marrow to fall out onto your fragrant rice, do it.

The rice itself was superb, flavored with turmeric, saffron and chilies – the biryani would have been good even without the bone marrow. But add the bone marrow and things just got ridiculously good.

The bone marrow nuggets hold their shape, but as soon as it hits your tongue, it just melts. It was one of the great, and without a doubt the most memorable platter of biryani you would have ever had.