Mumbai is, no doubt a sizzling city that has a lot to offer its visitors including pristine beaches, spectacular sightseeing, nightlife, shopping, exotic locations, picturesque views, delicious cuisines and a lot more. But the city is known for its distinctive street foods.
The amazing fact is that a few of the popular street foods accessible elsewhere in India owe their origins to or have been inspired by local Mumbai food.
Mumbai emerges as a foodie’s paradise with a number of options of local street food. The street food of the city may not hog all the limelight but it remains one of the long standing reasons behind the burgeoning popularity of Mumbai tourism.
In fact the travelers also try to get a chance to fulfill their appetites at the countless food stalls of local food situated at numerous captivating landmarks and monuments of the city. The flavours, textures and colours of this mouth watering food is which create dishes will pop in your mouth and hardly impact your pocket.
Amongst a sea of choices, It is just impossible to avoid a plate of deep-fried, vada-pav served with green chutney; a bowl of pav-bhaji, garnished with a blob of butter, onion and a dash of lemon; mixture of tangy, savoury puffed rice called bhel-puri; delicious alloo tikki and the most famous Panipuri, Bhelpuri, Sevpuri, Dahipuri, Sandwiches, Chinese bhel, idlis, Dosas and a lots more.
There are a number of food festivals are celebrated in Mumbai, showing the cultural variety of food in the city, which introduces the visitors and locals to all the delicious foodstuffs that Amchi Mumbai offers.
Every celebrations of the city whether they are big or small are also incomplete without the tasty popular street food and snacks of Aamchi Mumbai.
Batata Bara and Vada Pav
It is the most popular spicy vegetarian fast food dish of Mumbai, whether it’s for breakfast, teatime, or anytime, one thing is very sure, Mumbaikars can’t live without eating this Indian Burger. Batata Bara is a deep fried petty prepared from boiled potato with garlic, chillies, lime juice, turmeric, coriander dipped in chick gram flour. How can I miss to tell you that it is served with tasty green chutney.
Actually it is a crime to taste this allu patty anywhere else other than the streets.
Paav Bhaji
Pav Bhaji is another most famous street food dish of Amchi Mumbai. Bhaji is spicy gravy prepared from mashed vegetables cooked with spices and seasonings. Some assorted vegetables used in bhaji are potatoes, peas, tomatoes, onions and green pepper, Sometimes the hawkers use cheese and paneer. Pav or bred, shallow fried in even more butter which make it crispy. It is served by squeezing some lemon on top and a slab of butter over the bhaji with chopped onions and shallow fried pao.
Bhelpuri
It is one of the most famous chaat of the Mumbai streets. It is the most tasty and colorful dish available outside almost every offices, gardens and various hot spots across Mumbai. This colorful chaat is a delicious mixture of a crunchy, cold puffed rice, papadi, sev, chopped onions and boiled potatoes, raw mango which is served with tamarind sweet and sour chutney.
Don’t forget to try bhel puri at Chowpatty Beach.
Pani puri
The yummy and mouthwatering Panipuri or Golgappas are the most chatpata snake of this city the hawker mad a hole in a crispy fried suji sphere then fill it with some sprouts, potatos, chopped onion and finally dip it in to a sweet-and-sour mix liquid. It is served with some mint and chaat masala. You have to put the whole sphere in your mouth.
There are a number of dishes available at the street stalls of Mumbai. The best thing is that these lip smacking dishes are accessible in all around the city on the food stalls dotting beaches, street corners, railway stations, and bus stands.
Although there are a number of expensive restaurants present in Mumbai, but still these street food stalls are some good joints where you can enjoy the mouthwatering nutritious food at a very reasonable price.
Samosa
The samosa is the most famous street food of Mumbai which can be found almost everywhere. It is a deep fried pastry stuffed with a mixture of potatoes, peas and vegetables. This Crispy on the outside, tasty from the inside snake is served with pudhina or tangy tomato chutney. This is usually had as a snack with tea.
Dosas
It is shaped like a crepe, usually made of rice flour, and stuffed with a mixture of mashed potatoes and some selected vegetables. Sometime the stall hawkers stuff dosa with a mixture of masala and chees. It is served with coconut chutney and a steaming hot curry called sambar.
Idli
It is the healthiest snake of Mumbai. It is usually made of steaming the fermented rice flour. Sometimes it is made of rawa. It is served with coconut chutney and a steaming hot curry called sambar.
Bhajiya
This snake is responsible to make the monsoon season pleasant and delightful in Mumbai. This most popular and deep fried snake is made up of potato slices, onion slices, coriander, green chili and some perfect masla. Hawkers dipped all these ingredients in Gram flour and deep fry them. It is usually served with some spicy chutney.
Anda Pav
This snake is most popular among the non vegetarians and egg lovers. It is a kind of bread omelet. The street food hawkers made it completely mumbaiya. Mumbai markass love to eat this snake.
Chicken tikka rolls
This is the most favourate snake of Mumbai locals. It is made up of meat. The meat is covered in a thin and soft steaming roomali roti and topped with strips of fried onion. It is served as it is.
Sevpuri
This is the cheapest and yummiest snake of the Mumbai streets. It is made of a crispy puri which is stuffed with boiled and chopped potato, onion, tomato, coriander,leamon chaat masala and finally topped with lots of Sev. Hawkers serve it with some spicy chutney.
There are a number of dishes available at the street stalls of Mumbai including Moong Daal Bhajiya, Bread Pattice, Medu vada, Kheema Pav, Channa bhatura, Juices and milkshakes, Bombil fish fry and a lot more.
The best thing is that these lip smacking dishes are accessible in all around the city on the food stalls dotting beaches, street corners, railway stations, and bus stands.
