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Batata Vada

Batata Vada


Arun Vaidya is a vada seller in Dadar rly stn. Even though his vadas were selling fast and thick, one fine morning, he thought "why not take a bun (paav), split it, stuff the hot steaming batata vada inside, call it Vada Paav, and sell it?" However, he was apprehensive of the outcome, and he made just a few vada paavs.

When Vaidya started selling these ---- well, it is now history. Vada paav is today the largest selling snack in Mumbai, Pune, and other Maharashtrian places.

When I was in Pune during 1962 - 1974, my most favorite dish was batata vada and even today when I hear the name of "batata vada", I drool over it! i like it so much.

So, recently on Aug 9th when I was in Bangalore, Ashok - Neeraja offered "may we go to Jayanagar 9th Block where there is a true Maharashtrian outlet selling vada Paav, batata vada etc", I jumped at the offer and we drove there.

There I had batata vadas and I enjoyed eating it! Others had Vada Paav. Then we had Sabudana Vada, another of my favourite. Delicious to the core. What a taste, these batata vadas!!

Earlier last September (2007) when I was in Santacruz Bombay, Ganesan (Vijaya's brother) used to get batata vadas specially for me and then I located a shop that specialises in this. I had my stomach-full there. Needless to say that when I travelled to Poona from CST, I searched for and located a shop in VT station that sells batata vada !! Even in the running train, I had only batata vada!

Have you tasted this?

rajappa
12:15 noon 29 Aug 2008
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