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Nostalgic about food.

Have you ever experienced in your life a certain addiction to a particular food with particular flavor and taste.No matter you eat that food any where in the world you will never ever get satisfied and you constantly miss that taste.And sometime you regret that you could not eat as often as you could, simply because we could not afford it.

It was way back in late eighties when i used to live in beautiful Bangalore. Unlike today Bangalore was so peace full and a calm place my brother and me used to ride a bicycle and go to a mobile shop(i.e a small shop on wheels) and eat "Masala poori" and "Pani poori" which used to cost us just Rs 1.50 a plate, together we both would spend utmost 6 rupees. we used to go some where around 7:30 and 8 PM in the night relish the great stuff. 

I agree it was not the most hygienic food. After seeing the way food is prepared and eaten across the world i don't see any difference in hygienic when people in US eat a sausage sandwich on a busy street or a Mexican tortilla. It is just a perception we all have that western world is advanced country 
where every citizen is having great food and other benefits.

Coming back to the Masala poori and pani poori my mouth still waters while i type this blog. I wish long lives to "Shankar" and "Ravi"  who used to prepare great dishes during those days.
If they knew that they could patent a  recipe, i am sure they could be millionaires by this time. Shankar used to run his shop at East End bus stop and Ravi at 9th Block. 

Shankar was so friendly with me and my brother, we used to discuss many things with him. Due to family issue he had to give away his shop to one of his relatives and start a new one in BTM layout. Once he went to BTM layout i could not go so far and also i was not sure where he had set up his new shop. So started to go only to Ravi's shop in 9th Block.

I think Ravi still runs his Chat shop in 9th block. He has great memory he remembered me when i visited him after a gap of at least 3 years. He told me that he cannot forget the old customers in his usual modest way. Ravi makes great masala curry and serves the chat with great precision. Every plate he makes will have same amount of masala in it and it tastes exactly the same even today.


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