Rude Food by Vir Sanghvi: A requiem for Bombay bhelpuri

Hindustan Times | ByVir Sanghvi

Jul 26, 2020 08:10 AM IST

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Bhel epitomised the old Bombay. But the new Mumbai is about pav-bhaji and vada-pav

In North India, we use bhaiyya as a term of affection or respect: for your brother or someone you regard in the same way. But in Bombay, when I was growing up, it meant a ‘person from UP’.

The bhelpuri stalls in Mumbai were all run by migrants from UP(Shutterstock)

A restaurant called Swati in Mumbai serves Gujarati-style bhel and chaat

There is no pav-bhaji without packaged bread and Amul butter today (Shutterstock)

Soam in Babulnath, Mumbai, is also famous for its chaat (Shutterstock)

The best chaat in India is still in such towns as Benaras and Lucknow, and nearly all great chaat dishes can be traced back to UP

The vada-pav is now basically about the chutney (Shutterstock)

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