The Best PaniPuri I had in India
Many people ask me, “Why don’t you write about the best pani puri you have eaten?” Ahhh, pani puri makes my mouth water, especially that one place where I used to eat for 4 years when I was based in Ahmedabad, India. The year was 1978 when I had just entered my teens. It was on the busy Ashram Road, which had a string of movie theaters starting from the RBI building, or the grand architectural structure called La Gajjar Chambers, right up to the famous men's tailor Peter D'Souza's shop near Nehru Bridge. He used to be the best men's tailor; be it trousers or men's suits or safari, he was the man to go to to make you look like a movie star with his perfectly fitted clothes. Ashram Road in Ahmedabad was lined with famous movie theaters like Dipali, Ajanta, Ellora, Shiv, Shree, and Natraj. If you suddenly planned to go for a movie, you went to this street, and in one of the cinemas, you got a ticket to view a movie. This was sometime around 1978. There was this Pani...