Chaat
11 May 2009 4 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: food, london
The sky is bluer, the days are longer and brighter, there is a spring in my step and all is well with my world. Why this sudden burst of happiness, you ask ??
I found a lovely chaat place, close to home. All of a 10 minute drive away. Not a place I would expect would sell chaat – its a paan centre !! Chaat is easily one of the things I miss most, living away from India.
Its easily the best chaat i have had in London, which is not difficult at all by any standards as all the previous ones have either been plain mediocre or really rubbish. This one is not perfect, far from it – for one there is no place to sit down and eat, but for good chaat, i am even willing to jog and eat. The good news, though, is that they are refurbishing the place with seating.
They have paani puri, dahi bhalla, sev batata puri, alu chaat and of course bhel. And when I say spicy, they do make it spicy. Not sweet like all the other places on that road. Some things do have to be overlooked though. For instance they put onion in the paani puri paani, I mean who does that ? But thats a minor irritant as far as I am concerned, as I can easily ask him to not put that. And secondly, they make sev batata puri using the paani puri puris !! Again what are they thinking ? But, its fresh, really really tasty and so I can easily overlook these.
We have already been twice in the space of a week and I can see myself going there often. K likes it too – she eats the puris or else the sev and likes the hustle-bustle around the shop. This time, we even managed to get fresh mangoes as the season seems to be have begun in full earnest.
