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If you want to understand democracy, famous American essayist Simeon Strunsky once wrote, spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses with people.

In much the same manner, a walk through a neighbourhood market can reveal much more about breakout sectors than a tonne of industry reports.

To spot one such opportunity, specifically in the dietary choices of Indians, a trip to Dwarka would serve as an eye-opener. At a street in this western suburb of Delhi, a number of food carts have sprung up in recent times specialising in egg delicacies. Their pièce de résistance, and the highest selling item on the menu, is something called the 'cheese pizza omelette'.

Like all legendary dishes, it is as much to be seen as it is to be eaten.

To prepare this masterpiece, the food cart chef first slathers the pan generously with a chunk of butter and fries some chopped onions, tomatoes, green chillies and loads of masala. Four eggs follow, and two slices of bread are soaked in the mixture as it cooks in the pan.

The omelette is flipped, and more butter and masala are added. This golden, gooey concoction is then transferred to a plate, which gives the misleading impression that the dish is ready. But the chef then heats another dollop of butter in the pan, fries a few onion rings, and pours this sizzling mix over the plate. He then shifts his attention to the plate, garnishing it with generous amounts of Amul cream, grated paneer and corn. A few token lettuce leaves are then tucked in, only to be buried under a double drizzle of tandoori mayonnaise.

And with that, the magnum opus is ready, making it perhaps the only instance in the culinary world where eggs are reduced to playing a cameo in a dish called the 'omelette'.