Went for a snack-walk near the railway station / bus stand in Surat to sample the local taste.
First stop was the pani puri (gol gappas). Atta (wheat flour) balls with a mixture of potato, black grams (kala chana) some spices and finally the spicy water. The water was not colored as in Delhi but tasted good. Bloody cheap too - for 7 bucks i got 14 of them balls and not heavy at all. I think the mumbai / pune is awesome and better just for the fact that they have the warm chick pea (safed chana) stuffing. Total time a good part of 5 mins.
Second stop, was a omlete pao. A one egg omlete seriously shook-up and put on a hot stove. The guy had his own mixture of spices that went into it. Along with this was pao shaped like two joint fingers, quickly toasted on the hot plate. total time 1 min 15 secs.
Not finding anything else I wandered into a small tea shop. order ' ek cutting' (one shrpish tea) (u can do that in Surat as well, it seems) took a mathi along with it, which was nice and thin and folded 4 times over. Then I had a rusk shaped biscuit which was also good. Total time - 10 mins 9the tea was hot. Cost - 12 bucks. some pics of the tea shop :
