Mumbai
COST
OF LIVING
Typical
costs for some everyday necessities (per Kg) are :
Rice Rs. 15/-
Sugar RS 16/-
Wheat RS 15/-
Tuvar Dal RS 25/-
Masur Dal RS 30/-
Tomatoes RS 20/- to RS 25/-
Onions RS 6/- (fluctuates wildly)
Potatoes RS 6/- to RS 8/-
Mutton RS 110/ -
Chicken RS RS 90/-
Haircut RS 25/-
Stitching a Shirt RS 100/- to RS 120/-
Stitching a Pant RS 200/- to RS 350/-
Ironing a Shirt RS 3/-
Ironing a Pant RS 4/-
Food
Most of the imaginable cuisines are available in Mumbai. There
are several regional restaurants serving snacks, meals, etc.
For example, Irani (serving Mughlai), Udupi (south Kanara vegetarian),
North Kanara, Kerala, Goan, Tamil, Punjabi, and so on.
Fast food: Many joints serve various fast foods a la
McDonalds. Snacks like pizzas and hamburgers come in various
varieties, including vegetarian and those catering to strict
jain "kosher" tenets - no garlic or onions, even. Outside railway
stations like Dadar, local specialities "fast foods" are hugely
popular, especially at night. Push-cart vendors serve memorable
and delicious spicy snacks.
Dabba
wallahs: This is another Mumbai institution. Hordes of sturdy
hill men undertake to deliver lunches (a lunch pail) from people's
homes to their offices. How they keep track of what lunch pail
goes where is still a mystery. Stainless steel lunch pails are
not recommended, as they have a mysterious tendency to get "lost".
Some dabba wallahs help in locating good home cooked meals from
little unknown restaurants too.
A typical Udupi meal (thali) costs an average of Rs. 25, with
the menu consisting of 2 vegetables, rice, roti/puri, dal, rasam,
curds, papad, pickle, sweet, etc. A cup of tea in a small place
is available at a cost of RS 3.
Push
cart vendors serve memorable and delicious typically Mumbai
spicy snacks like bhel puri, zunka bhakar, pav bhaji and Mumbai
Chinese (no chinese would probably recognize it anyway).
In fact, some of the best food is available in the crowded by-lanes
of south Mumbai in areas like Null bazar, Bhendi bazar, Bhuleshwar,
etc. These places are popularly known as Khao Gallis, literally
translated as eating lanes.
Most
of the ethnic Indian regional cuisine is available, too, not
just in large restaurants, but near places of work . Fast food
mobile vans are also popular and are generally parked near skyscrapers
in business districts during lunch times.
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