Street Foods are generally known as foods which can enlighten your mood within a minute, which can help you forget every trouble of your life by letting you smile from the core of your heart and which can force you to fill guilty for being fat but in the same time will make you say “am loving it”. It’s a very astonishing fact that each and every city in India has their own unique and colorful appreciation for foods, mainly for street foods. As various kinds of street foods like sweet, salty, and spicy with lots of masalas, vegetables and other spicy items like chicken, fish, mutton is available in all over India, you can be confused to what to eat and what not to.

So here I am, tracking down some of the most delicious, and mouth-watering street foods of Indian cities, which can help any food perfectionist or gourmet to choose the best of the best street-foods when they are traveling all over India.

Puchka or Golgappe: Let’s begin the delicious journey with the most famous, all-time favorite, our beloved Puchka or Golgappe or Panipuri. There will be very few people who are not in love with this crunchy and crispy little balls which are made of the perfect blend of spicy potato pour and sweet and sour tamarind soup or chutney. It’s not that you can’t get this food in any restaurant, but the puchkas, which are served by the roadside are the best in taste. Even a food perfectionist or a hygiene concerned person can’t resist themselves when it comes to this crunchy and spicy delight.

Momo or Dumplings: Being a North-eastern city street food, previously Momo or dumplings were generally preferred as foods for the winter season. Though origin wise Momo or steamed dumplings are Tibetan or Nepalese food item, now they are whole worldwide famous for every season. Even now Momos are also available in big malls and restaurants for its huge popularity. Steamed, spicy delicious dumplings, stuffed with vegetable or chicken and one bowl of hot delicious soup or chutney, really turn on our hunger and make us crave for it.

ChholeBhature: Just imagine that you are tremendously hungry and there is a plate full of this Punjabi dish, ChholeBhature, on your table, what will you do? Let me guess. Though your heart will say “hop on it”, you will go casually, will take a bite of the fried bread and deliciously cooked green peas with Punjabi spices, will close your eyes and feel like you are knocking at the door of the heaven. These very things happen with the every food lovers. But really jokes apart, I can surely say that this food, which is mainly an Amritsari dish, is now very famous in all over India. It’s kind of a breakfast dish for the Punjabis. If you want to taste the real mouth-watering flavor of ChholeBhature, then take a trip to Punjab and Amritsar, choose any of the three or four stars roadside dhaba and get ready to be absorbed in the delicious mouthful illusion.

Dosa and Idli-Sambhar: Speciality of Chennai and Tamil Nadu, these two mouth-watering dishes are very favorable for every Indian. Can be eaten for breakfast or for dinner, these dishes really are the perfect combination of tasteful and spicy sambhar along with coconut chutney. Idli and Dosa are specially made of rice, urad, and motor dal. A perfectly healthy dish and also can be eaten to beat the tremendous heat in the summer season.

Vada Pao: After a whole day of boring work when you feel to eat something which can enlighten your mood with its delicious taste and at the same time can appease your hunger, go for a quick bite of this very tasteful delight of Vada Pao. Also known as Indian Berger, this tasty delicacy is a very special dish of Mumbai and Maharashtra and can be a little bit spicier than you think, because of the added fried-chili in vada which is mainly made of spicy potato pour and best served with bread and green-red chutney.

There are also many street-foods which resemble with Vada Pao in a very similar way, like Pav-vajji, MisalPav, pav-Sample, Batata Vada, Dabeli etc.

LittiChokha: A very simple dish LittiChokha, mainly originated from Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Nepal, is now very popular in all over India. It can be served for breakfast, lunch or dinner. The simplicity of this dish makes it so delicious. Generally, it is a dough made of flour and sattu mixed with lots of spices and flavor like onion, garlic, ginger, cardamom seeds, coriander leaves, lime etc. and best served with Chokha that is spicy baigan-aloo-tomato kabharta and yogurt or tamarind chutney etc. The specialty of this dish is that the Litti is roasted over cow-dung fire or wood and then it is blended with lots of ghee, which makes it extra delicious. So whenever you are in Bihar or Jharkhand area try this mouth-watering healthy and tasty dish along with cool lassi.

Akki Roti: “Silicon Valley” as in Bangalore’s very popular tiffin-snack, Akki Roti is a quick-made delicious item for people from any background or of any age. Mainly made of rice flour and spices and served with coconut chutney, this dish is very healthy for a quick bite and that’s why it is very popular in the IT sector.

Chow Mein: Taishanese Chau-Meing, popularly known as Chow Mein, is probably the oldest and most delicious street food in India. Vegetable Chow Mein as in the “stir-fried noodles” with lots of vegetables and spices, or the egg-chicken Chow Mein both are really delicious. There are other varieties of Chow Mein present, which are Hakka Chow, Gravy Chow, Hong Kong Chow, steamed chow, and Soup Noodles etc. Mainly originated from the Chinese cuisine, Chow Mein is now a whole worldwide popular food and people from any background or of any age like this street food very much. For this huge popularity, Chow Mein is also available in any big or small restaurants.

MirchiBajji: The most famous Hyderabadi cuisine, MirchiBajji is a very spicy dish. Green chilies, stuffed with besan or chickpea flour are fried in oil and then served with lemon or chutney, makes it a spicy-licious food. You will feel sour and spicy flavor at the same time, so if you are having it for the first time, please be ready to have some sensational explosion in your taste-buds.

Chaat: A very few people know that Chaat is actually a Mughlai dish. It’s a very surprising fact that this very colorful mouth-watering dish mainly originated from the great Mughal king Sahajahan’s cuisine. lots of verities form of Chaat are available in the market today, like- Velpuri, PupriChaat, Dahi puri, PaniPuri etc. and all of them are very popular and at the same time delicious. As this colorful tasty delight is the perfect blend of sour, sweet and spice, after the first bite you ought to say “am loving it”!

Poha Jalebi: Now after hearing about lots of salty and spicy street-foods, our mind and also our tummy want to hear about something mitha or sweet street-food. So let’s present the most delicious and palatable sweet dish, straight from streets of Indore, a very fine combo of Jalebi and sweet poha along with crushed coconut, nuts and lots of sweet spices. Maybe sometimes we have eaten salty or sweet poha as a light and healthy snack and also have eaten hot, soft and delicious jalebis straight from kadhai as two separate foods. But this street-food “Poha-Sev-Jalebi”, the specialty of Indore, is the extraordinary combination of two very simple yet delicious items Poha(the beaten rice) and Jalebi and deserve to be the exact food for the taste explosion. So whenever you go to Madhya Pradesh or Indore, try this mouth-watering food and get lost in the tasty treat.

Kulfi and Gola: Kulfi, also known as the Indian version of ice cream, is the most popular, delicious, savored dessert item of whole India. This dessert is mainly prepared by combining frozen sweet and condensed milk with Kesar, cashew nut, pesta etc. This traditional tasteful explosion is also widely available outside of India and also served in big restaurants as malai kulfi.

Just like kulfi, Gola is also very popular street-food for traditional India. It is mainly popular in the children’s world. In a mid-summer evening when the scorching Sun is burning our skin, nothing can be better than a mouthful of this delicious ice Gola. Gola is mainly made of frozen ice and colorful tasty syrup of different flavor like coco cream, pineapple, mango, guava, papaya etc. so that when you gulp the whole ice cream, it remains a colorful stain in your tongue which may be the actual cause behind its popularity among children. Even the seniors get their childhood back for a while when they have Gola. This popular easy to make dessert can also be served on any family occasion as a traditional Indian ice cream and will surely make you the best hostess ever.