Being a foodie, I wanted to blog about food for a long time and I was wondering about which place I should start with- should I write about the breweries I visited in Bangalore or the posh restaurants in Chennai. Then the thought came to me that there are lot of ways by which you would know about those places. So I will reserve those places for my future blogs.
There are lot of small eateries in Coimbatore which have no names and their identity is either their food or the christened name by the crowd who purlieu them. All these eateries are predominantly vegetarian and since I was a vegetarian till second year of my college (Striving hard to be veggie again !) these eateries were my solace. So I am gonna write about one such place and its called Anna (elder brother) kadai a.k.a Anna shop (This is the thing with Coimbatoreans, irrespective of a guy’s age we call him Anna 😉 ). The guy in the red lungi here is our Anna.
It’s a paani/masala poori outlet and is more that 3 decades old. To say that they serve the best paani/masala poori in the entire world is an understatement. You have to taste to it experience. It has a tanginess and sourness which I have never tasted in any of the paani poori stalls. I have been visiting to this shop since I was kid and I would say that it still tastes the same as the first paani poori I had there.
They also serve Bhel poori, curd vada and curd poori but their must tries are masala and paani poori.
Apart from food, these eateries makes me feel nostalgic. Growing up in a vegetarian family we had only a few places in coimbatore to eat out and this was one of the few places which my parents took me. Food for both stomach and soul I would say.
Another thing which I wonder about these eateries is the fact that why they haven’t scaled up their operations or at the least change the way how the shop looks. These eateries looks the same which it was when I saw as a kid. Do they still prefer to keep in its pristine form? Only they know what’s in their mind.
Anyone reading this blog decides to go to this place here is how to reach there – google this address :
D. Mahalakshmi Bakery, Rangai Gounder Street, Raja Street, Town Hall, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu 641001
Once you reach here, you will find a small paani poori outlet , bustling with people. That’s your place. Happy Munching !!!
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