Hi All This is the first time I am traveling by train in India (Pune to New Delhi) and as it is long journey so I have to eat food provided by IRCTC, can somebody please tell me is it clean and hygienic food which they serve in train or it’s better to get something packed from outside. If required I can carry some cookies and bakery products with me but I cannot afford to fall sick in mid-way. Archana
Your dear Baba ji does not eat Railway food ever thanks to my visit into their kitchen once. Not a good scene atall to be honest. This is one reason I do not go for long train journeys and prefer to go by air instead.
If you started looking at kitchens then the fancy restaurants we go to aren't run they way we would like them to be either. Food in trains have improved a lot over the years and I find food in Shatabdi and Rajdhani trains to be acceptable quality. Never heard of people dying of food poisoning in trains like we hear about mid day schools so they must be doing a few things right I dont mind the food that I know will not kill me.
If you are going by Rajdhani or Shatabdi then you need not to worry about food as nothing is prepared in train and the packed food comes directly from IRCTC kitchen which is clean and hygienic. Other trains have kitchen car and everything is prepared there only which is not as clean as IRCTC kitchen but it is clean enough to prepare food. If you do not keep well or have any stomach related illness then its better to take home made food otherwise for a normal human it is 100% OK.
