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Rude Food by Vir Sanghvi: From the streets to our hearts

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Sep 25, 2020 03:47 PM IST

Whether it’s Gaggan or Indian Accent or Bhawan, it’s street food that truly inspires our chefs

It has long been argued (accurately) that unlike China and France, India has no historical restaurant tradition. Almost everything we associate with Indian restaurant food today came after Independence and Partition: tandoori chicken, the masala dosa, the Udupi-type restaurant, the Punjabi (Kwality-Gaylords) kind of restaurant, butter chicken, Moti Mahal, the all-India cult of biryani, Indian-Chinese food, etc.

Chef Manish Mehrotra (inset) draws from the flavours of the street and creates dishes like the (above) shisho patta chaat
Chef Manish Mehrotra (inset) draws from the flavours of the street and creates dishes like the (above) shisho patta chaat
When (inset) Gaggan Anand’s Yoghurt Explosion explodes in your mouth, you taste papri chaat
When (inset) Gaggan Anand’s Yoghurt Explosion explodes in your mouth, you taste papri chaat
Almost everything we associate with Indian restaurant food today came after Independence and Partition
The Bhawan delivery service in Delhi has a massive chaat menu (Instagram)
The Bhawan delivery service in Delhi has a massive chaat menu (Instagram)
Only one kind of food, apart from home food, predates all of these most recent inventions. And that is street food.
The Bombay Canteen made bhutte ka kees famous outside of Indore
The Bombay Canteen made bhutte ka kees famous outside of Indore
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