I liked the Mahalakshmi Saras Mela currently being held at Bandra Reclamation that I visited it again this weekend. This time I made it to the food court. A stroll revealed that the menu was pretty elaborate though there were many stalls selling similar stuff - bhakari, pithala, Kolhapuri Tambda ani Pandhara rassa, bharali waangi (stuffed brinjal), chicken and mutton thali, fried fish and fish gravy, puran poli, maande and so on.....

We tried what is called hurada thalipeeth served with spicy mirchi thecha and curd. Just off, the cooking stove, the steaming hot thalipeeth was delicious when eaten with a mixture of mirchi thecha and curd. Here's what it looked like:

we followed it up with soft hot puran polis which tasted great but could have been sweeter, in my humble opinion.

At the far end of the food court, there was one stall selling Rajasthani food items - gatte ki sabzi, churma baati and moong dal ka halwa. Though the board next to the stall said that items such as ker sangri ki sabzi and pyaaj ki kachori were being served there, the person attending to the visitors was so unenthusiastic that I didn't feel like asking him about it. Since the ubiquitous flies which were roaming about at free will in the entire food court were hovering around the open pots here, we decided to give most of the items a miss - except for the moong dal ka halwa because its steaming pot made it almost impossible for the flies to come anywhere near it.:-)