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Thursday, September 04, 2008

Vada Pav from Maakan Mumbai


I've only learnt about this Indian street snack recently, a thing known as sort of vegetarian burger known as vada pav or wada pav and apparently they're quite the popular thing in their country. Apparently there seems to be another store down at Lau Pa Sat that also sells this thing, but I got this from Maakan Mumbai (18 Raffles Quay, Stall 60, Lau Pa Sat Festival Market) based also on a recommendation. After some sniffing around, this didn't quite turn out to be what I expected. For one, the cold and dry bread wasn't even heated. Certainly not like that pan fried in that chilli powder and butter that would have upped the taste factor considerably. The deep fried spiced potato patty tasted sweetish instead of savory (in my mind, i was imagining something like a begedil ). Is that how they're suppose to be like?

2 comments:

The grease bomb on youtube would have tasted so much better.

The Pav or bread is never toasted or spiced up in vada pav. The vada or burger inside is supposed to be steaming hot and spicy. probably the chef there made it not so spicy for non-indian tastes because I doubt any non-indian can eat the real vada pav with original amount of spices sided with greeen chilli

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