Mumbai vada pav

A vada pav is symbolic of this city - Mumbai. Here's 5 reasons why...

1. Its sweet, its sour, its hot and spicy like a mixture of people from different backgrounds and beliefs - all of whom get together to create a unique whole.
2. Its flexible - it can eaten in a restaurant or standing by the road side or on the go in the train.
Its probably quite unhealthy too - just like life in this over-populated and over-polluted city.
Its inimitable and it just doesn't taste the same in any other party of this country.

3. In a city where tall buildings are flanked by slums, so too do vada pav shops cater to everyone from the moneyed to the beggars.

4. Like all those people from smaller towns with dreams in their eyes who travel to this city of riches - making and selling vada pav too has made many a road side vendor wealthy!

5. Finally, like Mumbai is compared to Hollywood so is Vada Pav compared to its western counterpart - the burger!

Go ahead, enjoy one today! Running to catch the train or fighting to climb the corporate ladder or selling fake books on the streets will work all that fat off!