Wandering

[sillifluous]

I recently spent an entire afternoon wandering through an
interesting part of the city.
Let me see how many place-names I can recall:

Bhuleshwar - Teesra Bhoiwada
Pydhunie
Mumba Devi Mandir
Moolji Jetha Market
Jhaveri Bazaar
Mangaldas Market
Kitchen Garden Lane
Crawford Market

Somewhere along the way I spotted Pancham Puriwala and
Badshah and promptly

Comments

[arunshanbhag]

heh heh! you were in my neck of the woods!
Thats a amazing world you were in.

And next time you gotta eat at Pancham Puriwala! Yumm!
or at least a falooda at Badshah!

[sillifluous]

I wanted to eat both but had no appetite.
Will skip a meal before going there again. :)

you were in my neck of the woods!
Any other places worth visiting in that area?
Apart from food joints...

[arunshanbhag]

From VT, if you start walking down towards Hutatma chowk, enjoy the fascinating sidewalk shows.
There is Strand Book Stall, literally down the street from Pancham Puriwala; and the nearby Apoorva and Mahesh Lunch Home for fish! :-))
Bombay Store - right across Strand.
On the other side of the road, (nearer to excelsior theatre) you have Chimanlal's Paper and accessory shop (not to be missed). Its in a little gulli off the main road.

If you have reached Hutatma Chowk by now, stop by and eat one (or two) of the Vada-paavs on the street!
then a ganna juice nearby!

(now my wouth is watering)
:-)

[sillifluous]

An amazing world, yes. And the quaint little lanes are
best explored on foot.
Strand is quite familiar to the book-lover me. Will
surely check out the Bombay Store and Chimanlal's.

Not Apoorva and Mahesh Lunch Home though; I am
a vegetarian.
Wada-pav, usacha ras - my mouth is watering too!

Thank you for the directions; my next ramble now has
an itinerary. :)

[alkyron]

lovely places, havent visited any of them on foot... love the Xavier College architecture!!! ... you should see that :)

i wish you had taken photographs too!!! :)

i took some photos of the general colaba area ... but have to move them to a LJ'able format soon :)

A.

[anonymous]

Current Mood : Nostalgic

Current Music : E dil hain mushkil jeena yahan ... jara hatake, jara bachake yeh hain Bombay meri jaan !!! ( Right now I'm actually listening to this song on musicindiaonline ... )

Re: A.

[sillifluous]

Now that happens to be the only song I can whistle
more or less tunefully. :)