Street Food of Mumbai at The Golkonda Hotel, Hyderabad

STREET FOOD OF MUMBAI

Street food of Mumbai is the food sold by hawkers from portable stalls in Mumbai. It is one of the characteristics of the city. The city is known for its distinctive foods. Although street food is common all over India, street food in Mumbai is noted because people from all economic classes eat on the roadside vendor prepared in most hygienic way that would surprise and almost round the clock and it is sometimes felt that the taste of street food is better than restaurants in the city.

Many Mumbaikars like a small snack on the road in the evening. People of Mumbai cut across barriers of class, religion, gender and ethnicity are passionate about street food. Street food vendors are credited by some for developing the city’s food culture. Street food in Mumbai is relatively inexpensive as compared to restaurants and vendors tend to be clustered around crowded areas such as colleges and railway stations.

Vada Pav is noted as the most popular street food in Mumbai. Other noted street foods in Mumbai include Panipuriu Bhelpuri, Sevpuri, Dahipuri, Sandwiches, Ragda-pattice, Pav Bhaji, idlis and Dosas, all of which are vegetarian. In terms of non-vegetarian offerings omelette-pav, kebabs and fish are found on Mumbai streets. The amount of variety of street food is attributed to the cosmopolitan culture of the city. In the 1980s Indianised Chinese food was an emerging trend on Mumbai streets.

Kulfi and Gola (type of ice cone) are among the desserts and coolants found on Mumbai streets. Apart from snacks, Mumbai has several juice and milkshake bars on the roadside that offer a variety of juices and milkshakes. Fresh Sugarcane juice vendors are synonymous with Mumbai roads and offer a cheap form of refreshment.Tea vendors cycle around the city, selling the beverage hot on the streets. Street vendors normally remain unaffected by general strike calls and do business all year around. Paan, a betel leaf preparation eaten as a mouth fresher post meals in India is also sold at Mumbai’s roadside stalls.

The Golkonda Hotel will be hosting Street Food of Mumbai bringing in the taste and dishes from the Street food of Mumbai to Melange where we will have Chat Counters, Kebab Counters, Chow mien and Manchurian Counter along with Dosa and Wada Pav to give all of them tantalizing and most appetizing feeling that all you want to groove at Melange - world cuisine dining restaurant. The Festival will be starting from 13th September - 25th September and enjoy the Gala spread of Street food along with the Buffet spread.

Name of the festival - Street Food of Mumbai
Dates of Festival - 13th September-25th Septmcber’2013
Venue of Restaurant - Melange (World Cuisine dining restaurant)
Cuisine - Street food of Mumbai and adopted cuisines
Style of Service - Buffet with Live cooking Sections