BEST Nagpur Sindhi Street Food Tour I GANDHIBAGH & JARIPATKA + Gadkari ji ka Paan + Aalu PongaFinger

Apart from being renowned as the orange city of India and a historical city in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, Nagpur also boasts of a vibrant street food scenario with many unique delights. In today's episode we have embarked on a fascinating food tour across two of the many street food hubs in the city namely Gandhibagh and Jaripatka. And to guide us on this sojourn we have with us two renowned and young folg vloggers from the city Sumedh Kanade from Gourmet Musafir and Abhinav Jeshwani from Just Nagpur Things.
We started with Gandhibagh locality which is a major shopping hub. It is dotted with numerous street food carts selling all the zesty stuff that we all love to binge in after all the tiring shopping spree. One dish that is a hotseller over here is the nylon sev puri so we decided to try it at one of the many Bombay Chowpatty Bhel Puri Stalls. It's sev puri topped with potatoes, three types of chutney and a generous amount of nylon sev (a super fine variety of sev). The predominant taste comes from the dates and spices based sweet chutney, the spicy garlic chutney and the crispy sev. It was truly satisfying and irresistible.
From there we reached Digambar Paan Mandir, a popular paan shop that is also frequented by famous personalities. While speaking to the owner of the place we got to realize how the blanket ban on tobacco in the city has badly affected the paan businesses over here. He admitted that they are still doing fair business because of the wide variety of non tobacco paan that they serve. Here we relished a brilliant meetha paan which was folded in the shape of a gujiya.
After paan it was the turn of tea and Abhinav and Sumedh took us to the Hyderabadi Dum Chai outlet at Jaripatka. They are a huge fan of their irani and lemon tea although they have a pretty huge and fascinating menu too. The irani chai is prepared by mixing a strong tea decoction with reduced milk and malai. The tea decoction is boiled in a sealed vessel hence its also referred to as irani dum chai. This was creamier than the usual milk tea that is found all across the country. They also had some really good Osmania biscuits to go with the tea.
Next we reached Mahesh Patangwala General Stores to relish a hot favourite snack called Kurkure chaat. We were totally impressed by this simple yet innovative and pocket friendly dish consisting of Kurkure topped with thick and creamy yogurt, a special spice mix and salt. No wonder as Abhinav pointed out that it is a favourite of the youngsters of Jaripatka. One can also customize it by replacing kurkure with any of their favourite ready to eat treats.
After this we went to Jai Samasha Dairy to try Sindhi peda. It is a popular Sindhi sweet and snack shop whose peda are the best in the city. As we came to know that they have the most authentic version of Sindhi peda in the region. So far as the ingredients are concerned, it's all similar to the North Indian peda. The difference seemed in terms of the richness that came from the khoya used here. These peda were soft and loaded with dry fruits.
Being well aware of Anubhav's love for rabri, Abhinav and Sumedh took us to Hatya Maharaj Rabri Wala. They offer the Kamti special rabri which is rich, luxuriant and full of malai shreds. From the first bite itself we were convinced that the reputation is totally credible and we simply loved it.
The next stop of this gratifying tour was S. S. D. Nashta Point. They serve rice chola and poha chola. Jaripatka being a Sindhi dominated locality, most of the street food is a part of the community's cuisine. Rice chola is one of them. Their version was a hearty combo of mildly spiced rice and a flavourfur chickpea curry. We really enjoyed it and polished off the full plate.
The penultimate stop was Hari Om Majoonwala where we went to try the traditional Sindhi sweet named Majoon. It is a part of every Sindhi celebration especially weddings. This light brown coloured sweet is made of khoya, dry fruits, poppy seeds, dried coconut and many other things. We loved it's soft and rich texture and unique luscious taste.
The final stop of this tour was Jai Bhole Chaat Center. The neat and clean set up of this cart caught our attention right from the time we arrived there. We went there to try the aalu finger chaat. Spiced mashed potatoes stuffed finger fryums topped yogurt, three types of chutney and a special spice mix made for an irresistible snack.
Overall it was a fantastic experience exploring these delightful street foods at Jaripatka
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