Thursday, January 18, 2007

SARDAR - PAV BHAJI








In the line with the famous dialogue from the movie ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’

Pran to Vinod Khanna “Tumhe ye pistol yaad hai lekin jisene ye de wo baap yaad nahi” (You are remembering the pistol but have forgotten the person who has given it to you).

In the same manner, we all love to eat Pav-Bhaji but have forgotten the Creator and Founder Member of Pav- Bhaji.

Sardar at Tardeo Cirle, Mumbai is the restaurant who introduced Pav-bhaji to the world some 25-30 years back, and we are glad for that/.

It’s a restaurant exclusively devoted to Pav Bhaji only. You will find on two different big Tava’s (Frying Pans), the Pav-Bhaji is getting ready, in two stages, in tons and tons of Amul Butter and on another Tava, the pav’s are getting processed again in Amul Butter As if the amount of butter is less, I found that Bhaji is again top up with butter at the time of serving.

My strong advice to stay away from Sardar for the persons with high level of Cholesterol (of course, once in a while you may choose to ignore this warning. Choice is yours. To be or not to be. Life for Food or Food for Life. ) and to not to forget to eat Maghai or Masal Pan after Pav-Bhaji.

Later on the concept was picked up strongly by the food stall named “ Cannon “ , Opp. C.S.T Railway Station and then by the rest of the world.
( Small correction. During those period, Pav Bhaji was also available at Khau Galli at Bhulehwar. May be food vendors in khau galli are the pioneer of pavbhaji. Need to clarify)

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