Good evening guys!
Greetings from Pune, India!
I'm with my good friend David of David's Been Here.
And we are going to go and devour some street food here in Pune, India.
It is all about the Indian Street Food tonight.
Let's get after it man.
Let's do it.
Maharashtrian food.
Woo hoo!
(Traffic and honking sounds)
(Cracking sounds)
So what are we having?
So first of all we are at a place called Khau Galli.
Khau Galli literally translates into 'eat street'.
Eat street!
Yeah, Khao means eat and Gali means a small lane.
A small street.
I like the sound of that.
Yeah.
Haha.
And you have every kind of street food out here ranging from Pani Puri to Bhel Puri to
Dabeli.
Yep.
Some chicken probably on the way.
But yeah today we are having the Masal Puri out here.
The Masal Puri is more like.
The puri are small kind of tennis ball kind of thing.
Pingpong kind of size puri.
And it is filled with masala.
Masal is like it is a chickpea mix.
It has the spices on.
And then they add onion, tomatoes, sev.
Exciting moment my very first time to try Masala Puri.
These look fabulous.
And look at how colorful they are man.
This is crazy.
Mmmm.
Oh wow.
You get the crunch.
That is the first thing I'm noticing.
It is savory.
Not too spicy.
Lots of different ingredients like this is just really good.
Really nice way to start.
I mean we had so many spicy foods earlier on in the day.
So it is nice to have something a little bit more mild.
These are 30 rupees.
So like really affordable and you get 6 of them right?
Yeah, six of them.
Six balls.
That is really good man.
I like it.
Alright you guys are going in for some now.
Oh!
Cheers!
Mmmm.
What do you think?
It is very crunchy.
Very crunchy.
Good way to get our appetite going.
Yep.
Next up Pani Puri?
Pani Puri.
Yep.
Out here for Pani Puri it is a little bit different.
Okay.
They hand over one piece to you.
Oh perfect so just hand it to us.
Perfect.
There you go.
Dude I love Pani Puri.
Tried it for the first time a couple of nights ago in Mumbai.
It is basically this carved out little ball.
They have two different kinds of chutneys in there.
Look at all of the sauce.
Like if I sway it back and forth you can actually see it.
I mean you put it in your mouth it just explodes.
That is actually quite sweet and a tiny bit sour.
Urgh.
It is really good.
I could just like pop like 20 of these in a row.
Haha.
They are that good.
And what is the price of this?
Ah, this is 20 bucks (rupees) so 25 or 30 cents US.
30 cents.
This is the thing you have to try when you come to India.
I know.
Pani Puri.
Definitely it is like one of the ultimate Indian street foods.
It is the ultimate.
The ultimate.
You can smell the pani from here.
Yeah.
I know I know.
They mix the sauce.
It is so good.
So good.
Alright.
Next!
David is about to try this.
Urgh.
You ready for it bro?
Oh I love this thing.
This is like throw a little onion on top.
So good man.
Put some onions.
Fill it up.
This is what street food in India is all about man.
Yeah.
All about.
Just easy small snacks.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh the pani puri.
Hahaha.
It is like sweet and then it is spicy.
Yep.
Crunchy.
Mmmm.
Super savory.
Mmm.
Oh my god mouthwatering for sure.
Gotta get some onions man.
No, hahaha.
Such good stuff.
It is too good.
So here is what I do.
I get a pani puri.
Yeah.
I add on some raw onions.
You add some onions.
Yep.
And so do you find that makes it a bit more juicy and refreshing?
Yep.
Absolutely.
And it is a one-biter.
I remember you saying that you were eating this everyday for a while.
I used to have a favorite joint.
Yep.
And we were like 4 of us every single day.
Every evening we should meet out there and have this.
That is epic man.
That is legendary.
It is so good.
It is my favorite Indian street food so yeah.
It is a must try.
Yep.
If you come to India.
It is an evening dish and everyone has this almost every weekend.
(Cooking sounds)
It is hot!
Yeah!
It is hot.
We are wiping sweat.
So what we have here we again have Khau Galli and what we have here is a sponge dosa.
And basically you have a crepe.
An Indian crepe which is served along with it is served on a banana leaf.
If you can notice over here.
Yeah.
It is a banana leaf.
So it is effortless cleaning as well after that.
Yeah.
And so basically you have a couple of dosas along with this is a tomato garlic chutney.
It is a mix of tomato and garlic chutney.
It will have sour and savory flavor to it.
And this is it looks like a mint and coconut chutney.
The green one.
It is a mint and coconut chutney.
And the third one that you see out here is a potato masal.
It is just a potato side.
A potato mash.
Yep.
With turmeric.
So next up is Sponge Dosa.
It is basically like an Indian crepe.
We have different dipping sauces and yeah I'm just going to get after it.
Oh it feels really spongy in the hands.
It is really cool.
So I'm just going to rip off a little piece.
So I'm going to try this sauce.
It is a mint coconut chutney.
Milk coconut chutney.
Mint.
Taking it for a swim man.
Oh my gosh.
They do add in some chillies as well.
It gives that kick.
That is nice.
It gives it a kick man.
That is so nice.
The dosa just likes absorbs the sauce so well.
Oh it is perfect for this.
That is why they call it the sponge.
The sponge.
Hence the sponge dosa name.
Okay and what is this one here?
So this is the mash.
It is a potato mash.
Potato mash.
Yeah.
So basically you have potato.
Yeah.
And some turmeric and seasoning on top.
Oh wow.
It sounds great.
Every bite is so different with these different sauces.
I love it.
And the last one for me to try.
So this is the tomato garlic chutney.
Tomato garlic chutney.
Most of the places they just have tomato chutney.
Yeah.
A tomato onion chutney.
Here they have the tomato garlic.
Woah!
That is spicy.
It is very spicy.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah?
It is all different.
Oh my gosh.
I was not anticipating that.
I'm still coughing.
Hahaha.
That is funny.
That is a natural reaction.
That is exactly it.
And I'm actually from down South and I've had a lot of Dosa but never the sponge dosa.
So let me see how the sponge dosa tastes like.
Oh wow it is your first time to try.
The sponge dosa yes.
The sponge dosa.
And I'm mixing both the chutneys.
The spicy one.
Yeah.
And the mint one together.
Oh yeah?
Wow!
This is my new favorite!
Oh my gosh that is so cool.
It is amazing!
Oh my gosh.
This is my new favorite.
I'm going to be here very often.
Dude that is awesome.
Yeah.
That is so cool.
(Street sounds)
(Cooking sounds)
So we are having the Tawa Pulao in one of the Khau Gallis out here on JM road (Jangali
Maharaj).
So basically Tawa is a flat grill.
It is a large grill where they put in onions, tomatoes, rice.
Yep.
It is oily and greasy item to eat.
And it is topped off with cheese.
So it almost feels like a chipotle but let's go and try it.
Yeah it looks so good.
It smells good.
And you see it prepared right in front of you.
Oh yeah absolutely.
And it has a spice kick as soon as it goes on the flat grill you can see that smoke and
fire.
It just starts coming up.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
It is so good.
Can't wait to try it.
It smells good.
It really smells good.
(Cooking sounds)
Alright we're about to try Tawa Pulao it is a mixed rice dish.
It looks fabulous.
They prepared it right in front of us.
There was like it was like a theatre.
It was like a theatre performance.
It was incredible.
And we're going to try it together.
Yep.
Cheers!
Mmmm.
Oh that has so much more flavor than I expected.
Yeah.
My gosh.
Oh my gosh.
The rice is fluffy.
Yes.
It is long grain rice.
I like the texture of the rice very much.
It has a crunchy.
It has a crunch of vegetables as well.
Yeah, I really like how the added peas.
Man.
One more bite.
Mmmm.
It has got a bit of spice to it as well.
It is fantastic.
We haven't had a lot of mixed rice dishes so it is really cool to be trying this.
I really like it.
And one with the it is basically tomato, cucumber and onions with a yoghurt sauce.
Mmmm.
Oh my gosh that is good.
You know what?
This whole street food tour tonight has been a series of wins.
Like everything has been pretty awesome.
And we tried some new things.
Even you've tried some new things tonight.
Absolutely.
I never knew that my favorite dish would be from one of the corners in Pune.
It is incredible.
Pune street food guys.
You've got to try it.
So we are going to have a cooler.
It is called buttermilk.
The Indian buttermilk which is basically a thinned yoghurt.
This is also a masala based drink where they add in a little bit of spices and top it off
with cilantro.
And it is very refreshing.
That is just what we need after all of that spicy food.
Yep.
Absolutely.
Cheers!
Cheers guys!
Cheers!
The Indian name of it is chaas).
Yep.
Masala Chaas.
And basically you know what they call this at home?
My home.
My parents call this beer.
Beer!
Indianized beer.
Indian beer.
We don't have the alcoholic beer so this is something that cools us down.
Yeah.
And we have it on a daily basis.
Let's try it.
Oh!
Wow!
Yeah it has got a milky sour taste.
Very uh very unprocessed.
Um can't say I love it but it is doing its job.
It is cooling me down a bit.
It has a tinge of spice but not a lot.
It has a lot of freshness from the cilantro.
It is like an Indian digestive.
Mmmm.
Still don't love it but I'm glad I tried it.
Alright guys that was an absolutely fantastic Indian Street Food Tour here in Pune.
What did you guys think?
It was amazing.
It was amazing?
What was your favorite thing?
Sponge dosa!
Yeah we all loved the sponge dosa.
It was great.
Anytime of the day.
So many good things to try and yeah it was fantastic.
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