I am very health conscious. Please!

                You aren’t a Mumbaikar if your diet doesn’t include a Vadapav. It is the major food in Mumbai life that becomes the food supplement for thousands people. You cannot stay away from this particular fast food because it is sold everywhere, in every corner of the city. You might get different taste of the recipe. With butter, grilled, chutney or with masala. Vada is a made from mashed boiled potatoes. It includes green chilies, corianders, curry leaves, also garlic sometimes. The balls are made from the above items and fried in hot oil at high temp.

                But finally, in any form, it tastes always better when it is hot, served with semi fried green salted chilies. Not just a Vadapav that fills the hunger of Mumbai but there are many other recipes that has joined the race with Vadapav. Chaats is another famous eatable in Mumbai. While a Vadapav plays its role in morning breakfast & lunch time, later Chaats and others recipes joins them. Like Vadapavs, they are also found in every corner in the evening time. With chaats, you can also have the varieties of sandwiches or pizza at low cost.

                It’s all about hunger where there is no place for a word “Health Conscious”. The city like Mumbai, which is on a Marathon run 24 hours. People hardly get time to think about their health. The fast and busy life gets the routine of a citizen. Crowdie locals become good place to be relaxed with unknown friends. Then what about health? Daily news paper might tells the secret of the fast food how it is ending up our health in delicious way. But who cares? I am recently in touch with a Senior Manager residing in Mumbai since many years. Suddenly he got health issues and so the doctor has denied him to consume oily and junk foods completely. He said,” I am just 38 years old; I walk 5 kilometers every day. Then why me?” In fact he told that when he arrived in the city, he used to depend on Vadapavs because it was sold in front of the home and quite affordable. You might remember the death of “Bijli”, a female elephant died due to overweight. She spent entire life eating Vadapavs. When doctors of Dehradun inspected her, they said,” She is a true Mumbaikar who ate only Vadapav.” They found her overweighed and tried to save her giving diet with low fat. Later she could not be survived.

                When we talk of food, we don’t care of our health. Including me. Even I tell myself that by today I will not eat Vadapavs but the same day, the same diet is included anyhow. You can get it even on insist of your friends, “Come, On, let’s have a party.” And you don’t know the party could be of Vadapavs. The group friends in local bring Vadapavs for which you cannot deny. People distribute sweets for good news but in Mumbai, people distribute Vadapav! After all, you are always followed by it.

I must say, “Jab tak hai jaan, eat only Vadapaav” J