King of all Bhaji.

King of mangoes is hapuse mango, king of Ganpati is lalbagcha ganpati similarly,  king of all bhaji is pavbhaji… don’t tell me you disagree with this.

On any lazy evening want to have full of fats and want to make the evening more lazy then please do have it. It goes with  company of friends gossiping and chitchatting spending an hour on table. We have a pavbahji shop called bhagwati. It is said that, the owner started with a small pav bhaji gadi and now he owns two hotels. The speciality of this hotel is that they put lots of butter in bhaji as well as while frying the bread which is served along with the bhaji. Also they have a red chatni which is served along with the pav bhaji which is its patent. It’s spicy and you won’t mind eating only chatni with bread, a good amount of salad ( onion and tomato slices are served along with it. This pav bhaji corner is open till very late night and people find it good to sit, eat and talk a lot.

This also has lot of variations like khada pav bhaji( the basic ingredients, potatoes and capsicum are not mashed but kept as a small chopped pieces), jain pav bhaji ( no onion, no garlic , no potato, don’t know what it is made of, never dare to try it), masala pav ( very small quantity of bhaji placed between bread).

Shiv sagar do say that there pav bhaji is the best … now you have to decide if that’s true or not.

Where to have it?
Pav bhaji gadi @ any khau  gali.

Bhagawati  @ kandivali … it is open till 4 am in the morning.

Shivsagar @ juhu

Pvabhaji stall@ juhu beach

Any restaurant

When to have it?
Evening with lot’s of friends.

What we should have with this?
A masala chass( butter milk) goes well, most people prefer fruit juice or cold drink with it. Even a masala papad goes very well with pav bhaji.

How it tastes?
Fine chopped potatoes , capsicum, green peas and cauliflower. Then spacial pav bhaji masala includes red chilly , dhaniya and lots of garam masala is added to the paste. All are kept on the  big Pan( tawa) and not to forget  lots and lots of butter.
Then on the same pan bread ( not bread slice these are special bread for pav bhaji ) is fried with butter.  Also served with lime and chopped onions to add as per your choice.

Cost?
Will cost you ranging from 40 Rs to 100 RS.

Ice Ice in this summer

Summer is approaching, Mumbaikars started feeling the heat.  Every time you step out of office or home you will either carry  a bottle of water or stop at any shop to get a cold drink. I have another option which will not only fulfill your desire thirst but will keep you chill for longer time.  Try out  ICE candy  very well known as a berf ( ice) ka gola and also in that  you must have kalakhatta gola.

Again you have lot of options in gola like, orange flavour, kachi kari, mix, khus, rose gola. This is a ice candy and if you are very lucky, you will get a glass filled with that flavour juice.  What we have to do is try to finish that juice in the glass using your ice candy… fun if you haven’t had it… then you must must have it. It will give you ice cold flavour. There is small variation in this as well called chamcha gola… where the ice is served in the glass rather than enclosing a stick.

Again this was also can’t remain untouched by the modernization and new stuff in the market is called malai gola. Yes! again flavoured gola served with rabadi, lot of dry fruits and mawa. This is a richer version of ice candy but definitely affordable to all.

Where to have it.

Normally on a nimboo sharbt gadi @ corner of loacal roads.

Juhu beach @ my personal favorite.
Oberoi mall food court @ Goregaon east
Elco super market @  Bandra

When to have it.
Mostly in the afternoon when you are dam thirsty… it’s a different pleasure.

What we should have with this.
Nothing.

How it taste’s.
Basically it’s a juice( flavour you choose ) with lot’s of lime and some sort of chat masala. The task given to you is to finish the juice in the glass using ice candy … go try now.

Cost.
Will cost you ranging from 15 Rs to 30 RS.

This video is from the juhu beach gola counter..

Mouth watering blast..

You need to stand by the counter.. keep your plate ready … be active and when your turn comes up .. try to open your mouth as big as possible..have that the stuff which the bhaya standing in front of you place in your plate… enjoy the a kick of spicy, sweet test which is registered very strongly in your mind.  yes I am talking about our own panipuri.. and some one may call it gol gappa.

This is a very famous dish from all the chats. Chats belong to north side of india but somehow we mumbaikar don’t want to leave it. It’s just something that you don’t  require  a reason to eat. Again the key for success of any panipuri is  hot ragda and cold  masala water of panipuri.

I wonder how this chat got evolved.. may be some one wanted to eat and drink at the sometime.. jokes apart. This dish is a perfect combo which will give you intense taste of all  in one shot. You will not believe my daily routine  includes having panipuri  while going back home from work. It will not take more then 5 mins as he bhaiya will push you to consume it faster and then he can have a new customer on the counter. The most common thing in all panipuri is the masala puri that you get after having the panipuri.. don’t know the reason to have that at the end.

You can invent  your own panipuri. My friend nilesh tried adding rum, vodka and what not in the water of panipuri. He says he forgot the cont after few puris he had.. so what are you waiting for go have moth watering blast.

Where to have it.
Any chat counter.

Elco super market @  Bandra

When to have it.

Preferably in the evening.

What we should have with this.

Nothing.

How it taste’s.

This  has a puri made of Maida flour ( is refined and finely milled wheat flour) which is fried in such a way that it forms a spear which is hollow inside.. very very crispy. While severing the bhaya will fill that puri with water mixed with some special spicy masala, ragda ( a curry of dehaydrates green peas) and chatni mostly sweet. so many thing in that small puri.

Cost.
Will cost you ranging from 8 Rs to 20 RS.

Mumbaicha wadapav

This is my first blog and I want to start with something which each and every mumbaikar love it…  “bhai ek wadpav dena” .. then to add “Mitha chatani thoda jada dalna” … more to come” bhai.. fry kiyahua mirchia hai kya“… and  the list will go on..

After panpatti you will see wadapav gadi in each and every corner of mumbai. It needs to be served hot and that holds the key.  I wish mumbai should do a patent of the WADAPAV.

Slowly the wadapav now taking a shape of Indian burger and various brands came up to promote there wadapav as jumbo king wadapav, goli wadapav.. no wonder one day firangi will start eating our wadapav in place of their burger.

Where to have it.
Authentic wadapav  @ any wadapav gadi.

Jumbo King  wadapav @ almost all railway stations.

Mithibhai butter wadapav my personal choice.

When to have it.

Any time.

What we should have with this.

A nice cutting chai goes best with wadpav.

How it taste’s.

It’s a potato crushed with  some chilly and a perfect masala. Then fried with a coating of Gram flour is a flour made from ground chana dal, a legume otherwise known as chickpeas.. Bread with chatni  both sweet and hot added as per your choice.

Cost.
Will cost you ranging from 5 Rs to 20 RS.

Truly a mumbaikar’s anytime dish. Enjoy it .. will be back with another flavor of mumbai soon..