Vada pav, one of the Mumbai favourite street food, that has grown to be everyones darling with time.
Though when I have given vada pav a try, it looks like a indian burger and on the same occasion basis, I used to call it burger in earlier times. With the course of the journey, a pav that has been filled with golden fried spiced batata(potato) vada and covers it with a lick of different flavor chutneys(mostly tamarind and coriander works) and sprinkle it of with chilly masala-thw vada pav is the easy way to fill your stomach and gives instant energy at the same time. It is a pride of Mumbai culture till date.
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Variations and commercialization
There are almost around 20,000 stalls sold out vada pav in the city Mumbai. Mumbai alone has numerous variations of the food based on the locality. Huge fast food restaurant chains like Kunjvihar, Jumbo King in Goli Vada Pav and Mulund also primarily served out vada pav. Outside of Mumbai, a variant of vada pav was pav vada, which was famous in the Nashik. Annually, August 23 is celebrated as the World Vada Paav Day.
History
The most usual theory of the vada pav’s origin is that it is invented in the erstwhile mill-heartland of the Central Mumbai. Ashok Vaidya of Dadar is often credited with began the foremost vada pav stall outside the Dadar railway station in 1966. Some sources credit Sudhakar Mhatre, who began his business around the similar time. One of the earlier kiosks selling vada pav is said to be the Khidki Vada Pav, situated in Kalyan. It was began in the late 1960s by the Vaze family, who usage to hand out vada pavs from a window (Khidki) of the house face out the road.
Mostly people hanging around near the stall for the tasting the one bite of yummy vada pav. Today lot of versions has been a hit especially for students as its been a favourite of everyone. It is a basis of Mumbais fast life.To get the upscale vada pav, hygenic Jumbo king is one of the closest version to that on the street or nearby Railway station.
But there is a little bit bunch of posh places across the city where you get the vada pav offer too. It is a perfect vegetarian fast food meal native to the state of Maharashtra. It was originally invented in the central Mumbai and from that onwards, this snack has been catered to the mill workers, as the most refined word is Girangon and later it has been layered in the rest of the Maharashtra. It comes up as a tradition of marathis. In the earlier times, some families used to hand out this delicious vada pav from a window of their house. It sometimes spelled as wada pav or vada pao.
Final Thought
Every city has some sought of wise relation or love affair with food. Like Hyderabad without biryani, Lucknow without tundey kabab, Delhi without golgapas and dahi balla, Amritsar without kulchas and when you landed your plane to Mumbai,you cannot resist without good, old spicy vada pav. This street food icon, mouth watering snack is an instant hit.In the Mumbai, where income inequality is so rough,the humble vada pav is the answer to all queries and questions as everyone surrender to its delightful taste. Specially in the monsoon season, when rainfall cools down the hot city,the Mumbaikar craves a bite and the joy and romance to feel its aroma. Over the years, vada pav is going fancy and glittered more in good restaurants, pav is pretty much square in shape as special kind of soft bread is used.
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