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Chattogram · Since 1987

Every jar is a feast.

Feast-day flavour, jarred by hand.

Slow-cooked mezbani beef achar, sun-cured mango kasundi and cheeses worth gathering around — delivered on the day you choose.

Chattogram · Since 1987

Every jar is a feast.

Feast-day flavour, jarred by hand.

Slow-cooked mezbani beef achar, sun-cured mango kasundi and cheeses worth gathering around — delivered on the day you choose.

Chattogram · Since 1987

Every jar is a feast.

Feast-day flavour, jarred by hand.

Slow-cooked mezbani beef achar, sun-cured mango kasundi and cheeses worth gathering around — delivered on the day you choose.

Hand-cut Sun-cured 21 days Cold-pressed mustard oil No preservatives Small batch Chattogram since 1987
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Rokeya Begum at her karaiHathazari, Chattogram
Meet the maker

Rokeya Begum has stirred the same karai for 37 years

Every batch of our beef achar starts in her Hathazari courtyard: bone-in beef slow-fried in mustard oil, then left to sun-cure for 21 days before it is jarred.

"If you hurry the mustard oil, it tells you."
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Chef endorsed

Kitchens that keep a jar by the stove

The beef achar is my secret in the khichuri. Guests always ask; I never tell.
Chef Tahmina RahmanHead chef, Dastarkhan, Gulshan
Their kasundi has proper nose-heat. I fold it into butter for grilled prawns.
Chef Arif HossainChef-owner, Kaath Koyla, Chattogram
Aged cheddar, a smear of nolen gur, a sliver of shatkora. That is my whole cheese course now.
Nadia KarimFood writer, "The Bengal Table"
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Up to three months in a cool cupboard if you always use a dry spoon and keep the oil above the pickle.

Yes. Pick any day in the next week and a morning, afternoon or evening slot at checkout.

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Producers

Slow food, named hands

We buy from people, not factories. Here are the kitchens, hives and cellars behind every jar.

Archival photo of the 1987 mezban
Our story

It started with a mezban for 400 guests

In 1987 our grandmother cooked for her village mezban and jarred the leftovers in mustard oil. Neighbours came back for the jars, not the feast. Today we work with a handful of producers who still cook that slowly — in Bangladesh and far beyond.

The hands behind the jars

Rokeya BegumHathazari, Chattogram

Mezbani beef achar, slow-fried in mustard oil and sun-cured 21 days.

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Kamal UddinKoyra, Sundarbans

Wild khalisa honey, gathered once a year from mangrove hives.

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Shibani DasJhikargachha, Jashore

Liquid nolen gur boiled down from winter date-palm sap at dawn.

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Hollow Lane DairySomerset, England

Cloth-bound cheddar aged 18 months in stone cellars.

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Pull up a chair

Questions about an order, a hamper for 200 guests, or just which achar goes with hilsa — we answer within a day.

The Hathazari kitchen courtyard
Visit the kitchen
Road 4, Fatika Bazar
Hathazari, Chattogram 4330
+880 1711-480 987
hello@mezbaniachar.com
Open Sat–Thu, 9am–8pm
WhatsApp orders, same number
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Good questions

Up to three months in a cool cupboard if you always use a dry spoon and keep the oil above the pickle.

Yes. Pick any day in the next week and a morning, afternoon or evening slot at checkout.

Anytime from your account, up to 48 hours before the box ships.

Never. Gift orders ship with a handwritten card and a price-free slip.

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MMezbani Achar
Feast-day flavour, jarred by hand.

Small-batch achar, kasundi and gourmet provisions from Chattogram's mezban kitchens and the world's best small producers.

© 2026 Mezbani Achar. Made slowly in Chattogram.
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