From Pune with Love

There’s temples and wadas, FTII and NDA, museums and caves, a snake park, a palace, Osho International; but this post is not about all those places to see in Pune. It’s not really about eating out or shopping in Pune either. It’s mostly just about those two things, quintessentially Pune, whose qualities are strangely enhanced after they’ve travelled a couple of hundred, sometimes thousand miles. And you won’t find this in a Pune Tourism brochure.

Shrewsbury biscuits and Bhakarwadi! You can’t leave Pune without picking up at least a few boxes of both to enjoy with your evening cuppa back home. And some for the loving friends and relatives who will go to scary lengths to get their hands on a box or two. Somehow, they taste all the more better.

Ready to melt in your mouth

The shrewsbury biscuits are part of our English legacy; a classic English dessert, named for Shrewsbury, the county town of Shropshire. And nobody bakes them like the folks at Kayani do. Kayani Bakery is an unpretentious little store that has been around since 1955. It’s just one pf those places that everybody loves and is a famous landmark in Pune today. It  is a family run place, read Hormuz and Khodayar Irani.

They have no branches

There’s been a line outside their East Street store in camp since they opened and the Shrewsbury biscuits are always gone in the first couple of hours. Oh, that soft crumbly texture and that sweet buttery smoothness, sigh! They also sell different kinds of cakes, breads, pastries, cookies, Shrewsbury biscuits, rolls, khari and other delicious snacks. Kayani’s rum cake is also quite popular followed by their selection of wine and mawa cakes. But there’s nothing to beat the Shrewsbury.

Perfectly sweet and savoury

Bhakarwadi, a whole bunch of spices and seeds and pulses and mystery ingredients swiss rolled into a chickpea and multi-purpose flour dough and deep fried. You do get smaller, weirder versions of these, but nothing like the ones from Chitale Bandhu Mithaiwala at the Deccan Gymkhana. The perfect blend of salty and sweet, these bite-sized rolls will create an explosion of flavor in your mouth that will just leave you craving for more. And just like the biscuits, they taste a whole lot better when my friends bring them from Pune all the way to Delhi.

I’m going to go stalk people on Facebook now and check if anyone’s in Pune. I suggest you do the same!!

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Shivangi Rajendran

As the newest member of the content team, Shivangi Rajendran comes from the world of professional dancing. With a passion for travel and a flair for writing, the Masters in Mass Communication is just an added advantage. A gypsy at heart, she doesn’t believe in planning and is always ready to pack her bags and leave.

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