Three of my most favourite roadside foods!!!

There's a great variety of food in mumbai. Gastronomic pleasures are plenty. Wherever you go, whether the western suburbs or the great big ol' south mumbai or new mumbai. For the average mumbaikar, hardly does a day pass without the roadside chats, the bhel puris, pani puris or the pav bhajis. These are the delights enjoyed by the young and the old. There is nothing like the bhel puri, a colourful mixture of rice puffs and farsan, with a generous dusting of spices and dashes of mineral and rock salt. A handful of sev, further topped up with fresh coriander leaves. What you have is a blissful blend, a taste bud tingling and savouring recipe......created by the 'bhel wala bhaiyaa' who gives you a free 'masala' puri, so that the tingling of your tongue due to the spices is soothed, but the taste of that great dish lingers on for a sweet amount of time!!! And then there is the pani puri......edible little balloons filled with juices of tamarind and mint leaves which just pop in your mouth flooding it completely, the taste that follows make you want to close ur eyes......heavenly!!!
Pav bhaji....which i know is a maharashtrian dish.....,the aroma of pav bhaji is simply too irresistable!!! Made out of a variety of vegetables it is also a nutritious dish. Eaten with 'garma garam' pav which is buttered and golden brown toasted. Like these there are many other dishes. But these three, which have been described above, are something which have and will always have a place in my heart and my stomach as well!!! If someone hasn't tried (mostly not applicable to indian residents!!) any of these items please do...... ur heart and your taste buds won't regret it at all.......ur stomach just might, though!!!!