we're in Mumbai, India and this incredible city has an amazing street
food culture so we're going to take you on a huge street food tour today
chaotic and vibrant Mumbai, India's largest city is a street food paradise, this is the
first video in our massive India series and we're exploring some of Mumbai's
dynamic neighbourhoods to hunt down some of the city's most delicious street food
we're going to eat six mouth-watering street foods today so make sure you
watch right to the end of the video because you do not want to miss the
incredible food that's coming
I'm Thomas and I'm Sheena and we're Chasing a Plate
we hope you're hungry, let's eat!
we're starting with pav bhaji from this street stall in this lane
so pav bhaji is a pureed vegetable dish served with buttered white rolls and some onions and lime on the side
let's go and grab a plate
we're starting with our first street food snack of pav bhaji which is made up of
this bhaji this vegetable stew some red onions and lime and then these buns, these
white buns there's this huge hot plate which is being heated over charcoal and
what the man does is he puts ladles of vegetables which are already cooked onto the
hot plate and he mushes them, he purees them right down, he adds some spice
he adds some butter and then just creates this really creamy vegetable mash, then
he plops it onto the plate, grabs some of these white rolls which he pours ghee
on to or the ghee is on the hot plate and he just smears it all over the ghee
so it becomes nice and crispy and ghee soaked and then we've got the red onions and the
lime on the side to go with it, so let's just get into it, we'll grab some of
this lime and squeeze that into the bhaji mixture, grab some of those the red
onions and add those in for a bit of tang, okay so I'm gonna tear the top off
of that and then give that a go, all right
mmm mmmm mmmmm wow there is so much flavor in that bhaji
you've got the real tanginess of the
lime and there's a real chilli hit, you can really taste the coriander that he
dumped in there, but it's just a really tangy, sweet and spicy flavor, that roll
is also really crispy, quite soft and those onions just add a really good hit
I'm gonna go again grab another
huge chunk of that stew with a bit of that onion all right
mmmm oh I got a real hit of that tomato flavor in there, it's just coating my mouth with spice
it is an amazing first snack
next street food is gonna be a Bombay street
sandwich and this is a really common snack here in Mumbai
this is the Bombay Street sandwich so this is a vegetable one it is packed
with vegetables and you can see it's been toasted so they put it in a little
sandwich press and right on the charcoals and just turn it on those
charcoals, so I can see some cucumber I think there's some onion it looks like
potato, some beetroot, some tomato and then there's a big blob
of chutney on the side and I can see more chutney in the top there just by my
thumb, let's dunk it in that chutney whoa
it's coming to pieces, I don't wanna drop it, okay
mmm mmm mmmm
whoa, whoa that was good, it was a huge mouthful it's a little bit spicy I think
that chutney that green chutney is a little bit minty but I think it's mainly
coriander, very strong and the vegetables, very crunchy the potato is obviously
very soft because it's boiled and then the beetroot is a very strong
flavor let's dunk another piece into this chutney so you can see all the
beautifully sliced vegetables so they just slice them all pretty thin, layer
them all in that bread add those chutneys and then toast it, so it's a
very simple quick little snack, whoa car crash I think, all right let's try some
more
mmm mmmm
it's a little bit spicy with chilli, the potato is super creamy and then the
chutneys, the flavor just absolute burst from those chutneys and it's really dry
the toast is not oily or it's not gone soggy from all the liquid in the
vegetables so it's got real crunch on the outside that is a great street snack
our street food tour of Mumbai continues and now we're off to grab some chole samosa
we're propped up at this table in this open-air eating area at this restaurant and grabbed
ourselves a plate of chole samosa so chole is this chickpea curry here and
then we've got some red onion and then to samosa, they look pretty damn
tasty, what I'm gonna do is just crunch into this thing it's really hot
mmmmm it's super crispy and then inside you've got this spiced potato mixture which
has been all mashed up, you can see that in there and see some green so maybe
some coriander leaf, there's some coriander stems and then that's just
mostly potato oh and also a pea
and what I love is that the outside of the samosa is really crispy and it's
almost greaseless so it's not stodgy, not oily, not very heavy that's so good
let's try some of this chole, so the chickpea curry, I'm gonna mix some of those red
onions and coriander in there, maybe that'll give it some freshness, let's try it
mmmm that's so good, the chickpeas are really earthy and I got a real hit of tamarind in there maybe there's
some tamarind chutney or something it was very sweet, let's give it another go
mmmm that's crazy, very sweet, I think it is from tamarind, you've got that delicious crunch
from the red onions and that freshness from the coriander this is amazing
I wanna get all the flavors in one bite so I'm gonna grab the samosa, spoon
some of that chole and some of that red onion and the chickpea on there and just eat that
in one go
mmm mm
so many good flavors, really creamy from the potato, crisp from that outer shell
having been hit by that hot oil and then that sweet tamarind in that chole is so
amazing it's really vibrant
the streets of Mumbai are just incredible to walk
around, there are people everywhere incredible smells, the beeping never
stops but there is so much good street food in Mumbai so we're off to get the
next snack
it's super hot in Mumbai today so we're going to grab a sweet treat to cool us down
falooda
"can I have one Royal Falooda please?" "Royal Falooda" "yes with kulfi, dhanyavada"
look at this amazing concoction, we ordered the royal falooda, so falooda
is like a drink or a dessert and it's made up of milk, it's pink because it's
got rose syrup, those little dots there are basil seeds and then you can see the squiggly
things are vermicelli and then this is topped with ice cream and then kulfi
which is the local ice cream, all right let's try this thing
ohhhh I just crunched down on a big bit of ice, it's so refreshing, that kulfi is very sweet
almost tastes like a caramel flavor I'm gonna go for the slurp
ohhhh the rose syrup is really sweet and strong and it's so creamy as that ice cream melts
down into the drink, you've got like the pop of the basil seeds and
then you've got actually some jelly bits in there as well as some nuts, this is so
good it's really refreshing
crowds of people around a street stand
always means something good so it looks like we've found a vada pav or a
street burger stand here let's go and grab one of these little treats
the vada pav has a few deep-fried things on it so you can see just in the little tiny lane
behind the stall, they're making the potato patties which go into the street
burger at the moment and the little crispies that they dump all over the top
of the street burger I can't wait to eat this
this is the vada pav and for starters look how big this thing is, this is a
vegetarian street burger so we've got a very crispy white bun, all these crispy
bits are just deep-fried batter so just little bits of batter that they just
throw into the hot oil, there's a deep-fried potato patty under there
which is filled with I think curry leaves and other spices and then there's
a bunch of chutney so you can see the red and the green chutney there let's
just try and pick it up and have a bite because holy moly it's all tumbling out
I need to try and get that chutney, oh no I'm losing my crispy bits
all right
oh my god, whoa, it's all over my face, mmm mmm wow
the potato hahah whoa
flavor burst, it's really good and spicy the potato patty actually is really light
whoa it's really spicy much more than I expected, that'll be that chutney that's
on there, so you can see that potato patty on there and it's all filled with
with greens and the crispy bits are all over it and then it's quite spicy this
I think this red stuff and then you've got the, the green chutney too which
tastes like a coriander chutney, I gotta take another huge bite oh my god
it's so hard to pick up
mmm mmmm the potato patty is unreal, it's a tiny bit crispy on the edge and it is
super, super soft inside and then the little crispy bits aren't
like crazy crispy so we've got this like little handful of them here with some
chutney on, mmm just a nice little crunch very simple flavor it's very salty but
the salty and the the spicy the chili spice works super well together so you
can find these street burgers everywhere but you can definitely always tell the
really popular stalls when they have a crowd like this just huddled around
everyone grabs a plate huddles at the stall, eats it quickly and then carries
on on their way and I can see why, these are so good and I don't know why you
wouldn't just want to grab one and quickly munch it down
oh it's everything you want in something like this, spicy, salty, creamy from the
potato and then a classic white bun that is a very good street burger
we're heading off to find our next thing but the stall just got madly busy it was
really cool watching the rush of people trying to hand over money grab their street
burger, that's very good, worth stopping for
it wouldn't be an Indian street food tour without a cup of the oh so
delicious masala chai so this is a very sweet milk
tea that's been infused with spices
ahhhh this is the best drink, it's in a double glass because it is so hot to the
touch it's very sweet, very creamy and it's got a really strong hit of ginger
we just stumbled across this little chai stand which is just under a tree on a
random street corner, these chai stalls are everywhere and it's really cool watching
the chai just bubbling away in that pot and it's really aromatic you can just
smell that hit of ginger, it's so strong
such an amazing drink
this chai is going down an absolute treat to end this
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