whats your favourite street side food ? nothing above 15 bucks allowed .... 20 max.. but actually even 20 is too high for any grub in the chaat family. non-chaat street food like kebabs and rolls are allowed too. my favourite is gol-guppa. its generally 5-7 rupees per plate and tasty. for the uninitiated, its about about 5-6, hollow, table tennis balls sized crisp balls, which are punchered in one end, only to be stuffed with a filling, consisting of mashed potatoes, green peas, chickpeas, diced onion and assorted spices. b4 serving, the vendor dunks it in tamarind water or alternately pours some tamarind water over it. also he sprinkles it with "mixture". if i am somewhat more hungry i go for a pao-bhaji which is about 12-15 rupees in most places and very filling. the low down for pao-bhaji is that its basically a small loaf of unsliced bread, split in 2 halves and then slightly fried in butter, which is served, with tasty and spicy gravy/curry at the side and a slice of lemon meant to be squeezed on the aforementioned gravy before making short work of it all. pakistanis... let us know what you go for/can get, in the streets of pakistan. nri's... let us know what you LIKED while you were still here.....or let us know about the foreign equivalent of chaat-esque grub.
whnenr i feel like i go 4 an ice cream. :grin:.. erm sry.. might not qualify in da chat food category.. but i dig in2 ICE CREAMS all da time :grin:
well i also love gol guppas . there for 15 rps here in pakistan. but i like the 'meethe(sweet) gol gappe. they're mixed in dahi and chatni. i dont know what the chatni is but its sweet and it is of red colour. i just love that plate. i also like too have dahi bharay...
I am from Kolkata..and Kolkata is definitely the KING in cheap and yummy street food... I love the jhaal-mudi, phuchka and churmur, bhelpuri and all other kinds of chaat available on the streets.And dont even get me started on the local sweet shops with sandesh and mishti doi....
ooo wow i love eatting chat and stuff in kol....i'm not really allowed to eat much roadside snacks in india due to health probs according to my mum *rolls eyes* but pucha yum yum....chat outside ac market...chana chips, jhal mudi espcially the one bagdi market ( cant spell it!) but yeh.....ooo ice golas are lovely too! its all fantastic!
pani puri aka gol gappas just love it and the vada pav, have not had it for a long time though... good you came up with this thread, that will be the thing for this weekend, will try and get all the stuff to make it at home.
heard it for the first time... cant wait to taste it... actually gol gappa in any form is welcome for me...
gol gappa in most of the flavours like mango this that and fruit flavors taste like nothing but drinking a frozen rasna.so i prefer icecream kinda flavours only.u gt the vanilla n milkmaid flavour in mumbai juhu side if ur in mu mbai.i dunno abt other cities.
same here.... in kolkata the street side chaat is the greatest...and the gol gappa.... they are great!
