Thanks
The last one I saw was a guy cooking Omelette in coke, and topping it with skittles
The last one I saw was a guy cooking Omelette in coke, and topping it with skittles
Ok fair enough. But there is some really weird stuff people are having.
@Bhaijaan @KingKhanWCPav Bhaji
I am not Indian, but given the right hygiene standards they have good street food, and it actually is different from Pakistani street food. Both have their place. If we are talking pure vegetarian Pav Bhaji from Ind and Bun Kebab from Pak with the lentil patty is just
Non veg, almost anything goes and with the rich spices and recipes of the land, will be good.
- The Duke of Delhi
with fresh olives, green chilies and fresh Tandoor bread
That’s an interesting trend being seen where immigrants have now lived on for a few generations. Customers are now expecting nicher and more specific products in the food scene. I still see businesses making the mistake of not specialising enough. It’s not the same market anymore where you could get by calling stuff ‘Indian and Pakistani food’.
I haven't had haka Chinese before but funnily enough they had haka noodles on the menu.
Must have been this Hakka thing then bro coz it was quite spicy haha
Do you like foods like Za'atar/Lahmacun, bruh
Home made Biryani always beats a sharwarma
This brings back memories. Mumbai Chinese (and I've eaten a lot of it in my college days) is as you can guess, a highly *******ised version of Chinese food.
In my city, anything that had a Chinese twang to it (basically if they added soya sauce), they named it a 'Manchurian', from Manchuria I guess. So you have Chicken Manchurian, Gobi Manchurian and so on.
We have mostly Schezwan style in Pak. Common dishes would be Chicken Manchurian, Beef Chilli Dry, Chicken Cashewnut, Chicken Shashlick etc.
For some reason I just assumed the Manchurian naming was a South Indian thing
I want to try vada pav from Mumbai. I have tried some variants here in UK and it was quite bland, didn't understand the fuss from Indians.
There are plenty of useless franchises or street vendors in Bengaluru who never match what you get in Mumbai. Not sure why. But around 6 years back, I finally found a small shop that was quite successful in cloning the taste and life's been good in that regard. So could be a case of you eating at the wrong ones.
Often these simple foods have associated memories of people and places. When you bite into them after a while youa ren't just tasting the food you are remembering all of those things too.
Actually, toasts and buns are better than other street food.
Street food doesn’t have to be dirty.
That is very true. My dad would always go on and on about the virtues of onion sambar (sambar is a gravy kind of thing a lot of South Indians eat with rice. There are different variants of the sambar for rice and it's also different from the sambar you get with idlis/vada). Anyway, this came from memories of when he was in college and at hostel and would pop into his day-scholar friend's home and have lunch there. So for him, it was a throwback thing. But it used to annoy my mother because she was quite renowned for the different sambars she could cook up. But he would still every now and then talk about the goddamn onion sambar from back in the day
is that what they use, ive always noticed the smell,
Yup similar observations from me too. They’d say halal but I find hard to believe.
I have tried each of these and especially liked Kurdish. Other Muslim cuisines I’ve tried and liked are Syrian, Malaysian and Uyghur. I guess I can appreciate a variety of cuisines as long as the stuff is halal. Hoping to try some Afro-Muslim stuff too in the future.
are you based in the uk by any chance?
vs Pakistani 
Street food
vs Pakistani Street food
.... Same thing happened when I had Street Food in Kerala, Indian Street Food and my stomach don't agree with each other...
Oh I wouldnt be so sure the ones in Mumbai that served me were converts...
Must’ve been halal, no wonder it didn’t sit well with your hate powered digestive system.
