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Kemps Corner Chinaman

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The name is inspired from an are called ' Kemps Corner ' in the city of Mumbai. It's got Maharashtrian cuisine, Goan cuisine, street food, other Indian food and Chinese too. I think the amount of variety they have makes it difficult for them to maintain the taste. Let me start with the good bit first. It's quite easy to locate even if you're slightly familiar with the area and it has boards like those of the Mumbai railway stations which are really catchy. We ordered a pulav with tomato saar (which can be loosely translated as a thin and spicy tomato soup) . The pulav had a very nice aroma to it and tasted very good. It was a little yellowish in colour and the tomato saar complemented it well. We then had an anda bhurji which is a very popular street food. This one was good too. Well prepared and a bit spicy which is just the way it should be. They also have the keema pav which I haven't seen in too many places, and we decided to give ...

The Curry Lane

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This restaurant screams "Mumbai" all over. The ambience, the food, the staff; just about everything about this place makes you feel as if you're in Mumbai. It isn't too big a restaurant. In fact, we saw it just by passing by and decided to give it a shot. I didn't have high expectations from this place, but I was overwhelmed once there. Their concept is street style food. It isn't everytime that you see the restaurant having worked on that theme for the ambience as well. They have boards which look like the bus ticket from the city of Mumbai, to handwritten menu items on blackboard. Now I'm a big fan of Mumbai street food, and there are so many things on the menu which are tempting, it was hard to decide. Finally, we decided on the following: Kanda bhaji  Tawa pulav   Cheese masala pav The kanda (onion) bhaji is a snack eaten in Mumbai and surrounding areas especially during Monsoon. It was served hot along with fresh green chut...