I am in Kings Cross I'm in front of the
shoe you can see that around me there is
like skyscrapers going up everywhere and
what they've done here is they put an
outpost of one of the most popular
Indian cafes around it's based on the
irani cafes of Mumbai we are going to go
in there and eat the big Bombay which is
an Indian tape giving the freshness our
food is about Bombay and most of it is
exactly as you'll find in Bombay it's
the food that we love eating when
whenever we're there where it's the
comfort food that you'll find in
people's homes but we kind of pay how
much do these beautiful old irani cafes
which are open in the early nineteen
hundred's by immigrants to it to Bombay
from Iran and this place is really open
all day and they serve a really great
breakfast breakfast I guess for us was
the bacon on roll we use a streaky bacon
that's cured with a rock salt and
Demerara sugar and then it's all smoke
over Oh obviously that's not a
traditional dish that you'll find it in
Bombay but it's kind of a bomb base to
our homage to the British bacon sandwich
right so let's talk about the full
before it's called the big Bombay Bombay
and it's basically it's a homage or a
play on the full English back in fact
Lee we have a full plate that we call
the big Bombay and it obviously has some
ginger pig bacon we have a black pepper
sausage that is it pork it's a port for
sausage and then we have some mushrooms
we have some masala beans they're really
comforting and warming as well and we
have Anna curry which is a delicious
kind of scrambled egg the Iranian cafes
have a curry for breakfast so whenever
I'm there I'll have power and a curry
for breakfast and it sets me up for the
day and course with a hot cup of child
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okay well here is a moment of truth the
big Bombay the bacon man look at this
sickness alright I think I'm going to
actually start with this guy because
this may just finish me off right
alright let's look at this thing so what
we have here is what is called coriander
in many parts of the world but Americans
would know as cilantro there's cream
cheese and there is that delicious bacon
from the ginger pig
hmm that's really delicious it actually
because there is a real smokiness of
that bacon at the first thing I taste it
was like Texas barbecue which is weird
because they use beef mostly but then
you get that that gentle coddling from
the green cheese and then you you taste
that sort of fat Tang from the from the
nan it's such a soul of that flavor and
then of course there's that that burnt
exterior so you're getting kind of a
double smokiness from the bread and the
bacon really great sandwich I'm gonna
have another bite just a wonderful
supple naan but it does kind of evoke in
some weird way like a Neapolitan pizza
for that puffiness and then you have
that smokiness in the bacon which kind
of takes me to Texas yeah Here I am in
London II in an Indian restaurant I love
the year the universality of food that's
a great breakfast right there but we
have this monster waiting for me over
here the power buns the masala beans the
Shropshire pork sausage the eggs the
bacon I mean it's a full English right
there all right well let's get stuck
into this big Bombay I'm going to start
with the Shropshire pork sausage because
I love pork sausage mmm that's what pork
sausage is supposed to taste like
just very porky sweet implications of
sage and some you know very English
spices all right let's go to the beans
which I know for many people is the more
perplexing aspects of British breakfast
dining
hmm it's a very spicy bean much hotter
than any bait being I've had in
breakfast before but very welcome the
eggs and the bacon together with the
sausage kind of prevents the perfect
balance of smoke and salt and fat very
nice and there's a lot heat from this
eggs
everything is very vibrantly spice
playing hmm what I love about this dish
is that it really it's reflective of
both London and Bombay or Mumbai as it's
called now two of the world's great
cities and two really of the most global
cities I mean I can't think of two other
places that have so many infusions of
different cultures civilizations
languages and indeed cuisines it is a
full English breakfast I mean you're
you're eating you know all the
components but it's very much filtered
through this prism of a irani cafe in
Bombay and all of the flavors and the
evocations and all of the cultural
influences of that city kind of come
through on this plate so don't miss the
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