Khari Baoli

Khari Baoli is a street in Old Delhi, India known for its wholesale grocery and Asia’s largest wholesale spice market selling all kinds of spices, nuts and herbs. Operating since the 17th century, the market is situated near the historic Delhi Red Fort, on the Khari Baoli Road adjacent to Fatehpuri Masjid at the western end of the Chandni Chowk, and over the years has remained a tourist attraction, especially those in the heritage circuit of Old Delhi.

Today, Kari Baoli is not only Asia’s largest spice market but also an important and busy commercial district, as it caters to vast spice market of North India, including states of Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan and even as far as Madhya Pradesh, making it perpetually crowded with traders, and shoppers looking cheapest deals and bargains, in the narrow margin spice, dry fruits and other perishable commodity market .

Here many shops are still known by their serial numbers eg “Chawal Wale 13″ or “21 Number Ki Dookan”, and are run by the ninth or tenth generation of the founders, who started these establishments, way back in the 17th and 18th century