My Mutterings

Hows and Whys of Street Side Cooking

Spent another day locked in at home. Restaurants across the city closed down. Facebook videos were my saviour.

A major part of these are astounding street side cooking videos. Shot by street food connoisseurs (hmmm) at innumerable street carts across India, you can see these guys with their phone cameras whirring away, question the street chefs about their dishes,ingredients, pricing etc. And the main ingredient of most of these dishes... Amul butter. Yes, dollops of it infect with about 5 eggs thrown in for good measure. 

Wonder how these concoctions taste and how they get digested. No doubt you will have to run the one minute mile a la Milkha Singh to survive the assault upon your stomach.

Another way to digest a good helping of  these dishes during the lock down would be no doubt to venture out on to the streets and encounter the friendly neighbourhood  policeman who has been busy oiling up his billy club and devising ways to release his frustrations. After all what is eaten on the streets is best digested on the streets.

These street side food videos by the way run up astounding viewership numbers with some of them running into millions.

What with the street side food joints having closed down, the viewing public is now getting their voyeuristic pleasures from watching the videos of people performing calisthenics to the whippy sound of a bamboo stick enthusiastically wielded by a policeman.

More later...