Sep 16, 2018
My visit to Food Street in Bangalore
It was Saturday, September 15th, 5 PM. I started my bike to drop Abhimanyu at the bus stop. Baba(Abhimanyu) stayed with me after the Friday’s house party at our place. The first wave of wind which embraced us as soon as I left my society pushed me to travel to some place. It was one of the best weather I’ve experienced in Bangalore. Best of the Bangalore weather! No need to explain how amazing would that be. We decided in unison to go to Lal Bagh botanical park in Bangalore. It took me about 20 minutes to get ready. We started our journey from home at about 5:30 PM.
The weather couldn’t be better but it was Saturday eve and Bangalore traffic never spares you. It took us about one and a half hour to reach there. We dropped the sunset plans. The park was closed. We somehow trespassed the gates and dodged the security twice to reach a hill to get a view of the Busy Saturday Night fast paced Bangalore.
We couldn’t go deep inside the park as it was very dark. With a promise to come early the next time, we went to the food street! The plan to have dinner at food street emerged on the way and amidst the traffic jams. Food Street was very close to the botanical park. It took us about 15 minutes to reach there.
Food Street is meant to be a lane for foodies. You get all the South Indian dishes and some other roadside food there. Its always jampacked and we had to fight our way in to place the order at some shops.
We started our expedition with a gulab jamun. We wanted to try proper south indian food. We started withKodubale. It was good. Same material as vadas but with a more crisp layer on top of it.
Then we went ahead to twistato counter. I remember seeing them last in Bombay. We had one with extra masala and cheese and it was great.
Then we had a large baby corn chatwith mango, starfruit, pineapple. This was a bad choice. One, it was very much spicy. Two, totally not worth the price. It nearly filled our stomachs and wasn’t that good either.
Then we had a dal vada. It was not at all good and we had to throw half of it.
I had a gola chuski. Something I missed dearly since long. Sadly the flavour I took wasn’t great and I had to throw it away!
The last experiment with south indian food was akki roti. It looked like omlette so we thought of having one. It was good. It was similar to uttapam but quite thin and with less vegetables.
Our expedition ended with sweet punjabi lassiand a fire pan.
There were other stalls of Burger, Pizza, Vada Pav, Pav Bhaji, Bhel poori, Gol gappe which we decided to avoid.
Overall it was fun but not worth the time it took to travel us to reach there. We returned back by 9:30. The return journey just took us 25 minute. Bangalore is a crazy place with regards to traffic. I really miss the masala and flavour of North India. There is some unique element in North Indian food which I quite miss here in South.
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