We all love to eat and we know how food makes us happy. Each one of us must have definitely had an incident in their lives when they were walking across the street and were having street food.
Street Food or Fast Food is a must to taste wherever we go cause every place has different types of street food ! You get to know more about that place as well!
Umm .. Talking about cities , most of them have similar kinds of street food .. at least here in India [i don't know bout other countries] but small towns or hillstations have amazing food i must say!
Okay So .. I remembered one of the street food episode of when i was really young. I was 5 or 6 probably , and was walking in a marketplace with my Dad. Obviously a kid who is hungry would cry , so my Dad bought me a bunch of Roasted Cashew Nuts. First salt was added to them and then they were roasted in a huge pan till they turned brown. I still remember how cheap and yummy they were ... In Indian currency they were around `5 to `10?
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Here's an image to give you an idea of how it really looks.
Another important thing you would find in coastal areas! That would also be considered as street food!
Coconuts and Coconut water!
Coconut water is mainly for the coastal areas but there must've been some or the other time when you must've seen some person in your town or city stop by a corner and sipping cool coconut water.
Coconut water again is a different experience ~
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LET US NOT FORGET THE MOST IMPORTANT SNACK OF THE RAINY SEASONS!!
Our Beloved Roasted Corn known as "Bhutta" to most of us Indian youngsters.
This stuff is sold everywhere and you will always see a man holding this plastic or a wooden fan in his hand and roasting corn on a small pile of charcoal and fanning it . Roasted Corn tastes the best when you apply Red Chilli powder or smear lemon around it and sprinkle a mixture of red chilli powder and salt!!!
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Another Street Food Item famous during the monsoons is the warm Pakodas or Bhajiya!
According to what most of the cooking encyclopaedia say a Pakora/ Pakoda can be defined as 'a round cake made of pulse fried in ghee (butter / oil). So a pakoda or a bhajiya is generally eaten with a mint chutney , [Chutney is a side dish , basically like a dip, the chutney here is made out of mint]. Some people who do not prefer to eat it with chutney always ask for tomato ketchup.
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Groundnut sellers are not seen everywhere but in some lucky nook or corner you might come across a groundnut seller with roasted or boiled groundnuts on his cart. Pretty cheap in price , I dont really know about the current rates though but as a kid these were sold about for a very cheap price.
Unfortunately , I do not have picture sources for this but sooner or later if I manage to get some i will definitely post it.
This is collectively my experience of street food limited to a certain number because i want to write about more but i would be doing them in chapters. So i end chapter #1 now and dear my friends, Keep Loving Food and of course , my blog .
