Tuesday, July 19, 2011

things everyone should try and do in mumbai

I"ve seen atleast 3 posts on facebook, twitter etc etc about 10 things not to do in bombay written by people who probably wrote it coz they heard about it. well i'm no authority on bombay but i did live there for sufficiently long (in my opinion at least) to come up with a list of things that you have to do in bombay, it doesn't matter if u'r a college student living on whatever scraps your parents are giving you as 'pocket money' or if you work and are earning big bucks.

  1. Sit on marine drive in pouring rain- you could get washeed away by a wave but hey thats a risk that you should be willing to take.
  2. Go on a horse carriage ride from gateway of india all the way down marine drive and back in the night, it's gud fun esp if your a lil drunk
  3. Drive a taxi even if it is just for a few meters beg the cabbie he'll let you drive it
  4. Eat a meal from bagdadi: this place redefines value for money, anyone who's gone there will know what i'm talking about. also try and spit at the people eating in bade miya's coz they think they are better than you coz they are paying more for crap. (read burrp.com reviews for both places)
  5. At any street dosa shop have something called a mysore masala - brilliant, i don't know what goes into it but it's really something.
  6. Have green chilli ice cream at bachelors, while you're there try out the strawberries n cream and the mango's n cream during season. 
  7. Get into a train form VT or Churchgate going to the last stop on the line and sit in it all the way to the end and back. it's actually nice to see the whole world rushing by you when u'r probably just doing this coz your hostel just got fumigated by the pest control people and you can't stand the smell
  8. Score from babulnath- scariest shite i've seen
  9. Eat the caramel custard at cafe metro
  10. Shout 'tsunami' at the couples making out in bandstand (i hear ppl get swept away by waves, not tsunami's just regular good ol fashioned tides)
  11. Go to powai just to see how far it is from the actual bombay :P
  12. Argue with a person living in thane or navi mumbai about how they are not actually from mumbai
  13. Go second hand book shopping at churchgate
  14. Go to chor bazzar even if it's not to buy anything just go there to see how junk can look organized
  15. Eat iftaar food at mohammed ali road
  16. Drive past salman khan's house and give his fans the finger
  17. Go on the bandra worli sea link
  18. Eat chaat at Elco's on hill road
  19. spend every saturday night at Hawain shack (only ground floor)
  20. eat goan fish curry and rice at soul fry
  21. go to totos - and say hi to rithika and sitanshu :-)
  22. sit on the first row in Regal and watch a movie
Also here's a list of things NOT to do in mumbai
  1. ask the cab driver for one rupee change (lolu, that one's for you)
  2. get into a bus early in the morning and hand the conductor a 500 rupee note for a 7 rupee ticket
  3. try getting out of VT at 5 pm
  4. try getting into VT at 9 am
  5. leave a bag in the middle of the junction in VT or Fountain and start running
  6. abuse people in malayam assuming that they don't speak the language (mallu's are everywhere man)
  7. go to pheonix mills on a sunday evening
  8. get out at dadar station to switch trains
  9. go to mumbai central in the rain's (there's shit floating around)
  10. call the bean bag numbers ;-)

4 comments:

  1. From the To Do list, one thing definitely not to be missed out is food @ Mhd. Ali road! I don't mind going to Mumbai every Ramzan only for this!!!

    How about Goan food from Snowflakes?

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  2. Haha.
    Great compilation.

    some things are really funny "leave a bag in the middle of the junction in VT or Fountain and start running."

    And yes totos and Hawain shack are ultimate

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  3. What ya, Anda. Noone goes to Hawaiian shack or Totos anymore.

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  4. and its Bombay, not Mumbai

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