Awwe Sai bai! What a deliciously delightful post with the sweetest ending! I can almost taste that vada! Your description of the school kids descending on the vada stall like ants is so perfect! Made me chuckle. Cheers to your return to substack, I have missed you here! 😘🤗
That stress was real! Swarming the shop counter clutching exact change, handing the money over and hoping they didn't forget your precious vada pav. All while jostling fellow vada crazed kids! 🤣
Thank you for liking this post Karthik! I used bits of it for a writing exercise with our cohort and just never came to comment here. Totally loved re-reading it :)) Sai, I had no idea about the history of Vada Pav - my favorite Mumbai dish! Thanks for writing this delightful piece 💕
Wow, thanks for sharing this Sai. I grew up in Thane too and we were regulars to Gadkari Rangayatan. Joshi vada near New English school was our favorite.
Oh wow, I grew up close to Gadkari. Thane was such a different vibe then (in a good way). Joshi vada near NES and the Ram Maruti and Gokhale Road area had quite a few good vada options!
Softest promise kept was a secret to me till this date. Just remembered that I have had my first home made Vadas also happened to be by her in 60's. Fond memories left behind by some people. Incidentally, I had missed that there was a commemorative postage stamp featuring Vada Pav
This was amazing and now I will walk out of my apartment in Mumbai and look for the closest batata vada stall!
Awwe Sai bai! What a deliciously delightful post with the sweetest ending! I can almost taste that vada! Your description of the school kids descending on the vada stall like ants is so perfect! Made me chuckle. Cheers to your return to substack, I have missed you here! 😘🤗
Thank you, Sana! 😘
That stress was real! Swarming the shop counter clutching exact change, handing the money over and hoping they didn't forget your precious vada pav. All while jostling fellow vada crazed kids! 🤣
Mouth watering stuff! Bombay rains, vada pav aani chai :')
Thank you for liking this post Karthik! I used bits of it for a writing exercise with our cohort and just never came to comment here. Totally loved re-reading it :)) Sai, I had no idea about the history of Vada Pav - my favorite Mumbai dish! Thanks for writing this delightful piece 💕
I regret reading this essay on a hungry stomach. So good job(?) Sai 😜
I read this around my breakfast time, in Abu-Dhabi! Kahan se laun Bombay ka Vada Pav :/
Thanks, Sanket. I delayed dinner to write this so familiar with the hungry tummy feeling, and now feel like I need to make vadas sometime! 😅
Wow, thanks for sharing this Sai. I grew up in Thane too and we were regulars to Gadkari Rangayatan. Joshi vada near New English school was our favorite.
Oh wow, I grew up close to Gadkari. Thane was such a different vibe then (in a good way). Joshi vada near NES and the Ram Maruti and Gokhale Road area had quite a few good vada options!
It has its own cool quotient and identity. :)
It does too! Btw I was reading your photo essay on Chendani koliwada and that stirred some memories of Thane and batata vadas. ✨🙂
Awesome. Must go back there this Ganpati season :)
Softest promise kept was a secret to me till this date. Just remembered that I have had my first home made Vadas also happened to be by her in 60's. Fond memories left behind by some people. Incidentally, I had missed that there was a commemorative postage stamp featuring Vada Pav
Oh this is positively delicious! It made me relive my undergraduate days at Sophia College 🥰