Street food from Gujarat

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Gujarat is one of the vibrant states of India and gujarati food is unique! Here street food is dominantly popular and mostly vegetarian. I am fond of Gujarati food because I visit Gujarat frequently, at least twice or thrice a year! I love to go out in the evening, because afternoons are extremely hot, to eat pani-poori roadside! Well, I am talking about snacks not the thali (full meal) here.

Travel Talk- Why eat Street Food?

It is a common question to most of us travelers/tourists ... what makes us travel? And one of the most common reasons is to 'experience local culture and cuisine'. But, how many of us really experience the local authentic culture and cuisine? The package tours, expensive hotels and similar usually arrange some events which are 'tailor made' for the tourists, so where is the authenticity? And these are sometimes not affordable to the budget travelers. When you want the real experience go for street food or semi-street food! If you ask me why? here are my reasons ...

Food Odyssey- Madhya Pradesh

Food is one of my favorite topics! To write about and photograph :) In this Food Odyssey series I will write about some mouth watering state-wise vegetarian cuisine and street food of India. In this post it will be the food from Madhya Pradesh. Every place I have visited had something new to offer, be it a chat item, meal, sweet or just some junk snack. Everything has its own zing. It was a journey ... Every state has its own way of cooking based on the weather conditions, availability of water and vegetables, use of oil or ghee, sweets, dairy and so on ...

When in Madhya Pradesh on earlier evenings I ordered room service for dinner. Then realized I was eating the same restaurant food I could get anywhere in India. Then I started to go to nearby bhojanalayas (restaurants that serve simple local food). Most of them or I could say all of them had prefix- Shuddha Shakhahari (pure vegetarian), now that was an added bonus for me.