{"id":11885,"date":"2017-09-24T18:45:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T13:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotfridaytalks.com\/?p=11885"},"modified":"2017-09-24T18:45:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T13:15:51","slug":"with-fire-crushed-ice-here-are-ome-paan-like-youve-never-had-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotfridaytalks.com\/food\/with-fire-crushed-ice-here-are-ome-paan-like-youve-never-had-before\/","title":{"rendered":"With Fire, Crushed Ice, Here are Some Paan Like You\u2019ve Never Had Before"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cSkip dessert\u2026 keep some space for paan.\u201d When this preposterous suggestion came during dinner after a long day in office, little did I anticipate the feast awaiting me at the brightly lit Suryavanshi Paan Bhandar near the Goregaon MTNL office. I had arrived at the grand gourmet house of the humble paan.<\/p>\n

Ever since Pradeep Sharma started this outlet in 1994, he is constantly experimenting with combinations of taste, flavor, texture and even temperature to conjure up a new paan creation for every season.<\/p>\n

His early claim to fame was \u201cice paans\u201d. Don\u2019t mistake it for the fridge frozen, ready-made varieties. Sharmaji makes them fresh for you every time. Flavoured ice crush, paired with different fruit and spice chutneys, desiccated coconut, textured supari (areca nut) and other ingredients in careful proportions create icy magic. Now he has a \u201cfire paan\u201d, which, in contrast, is a dry explosion of refreshing warm flavours with a distinctly tangy after taste.<\/p>\n

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Praan jaye par Paan na jaye<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Paan here always comes with a special twist. The chocolate paan is not the usual diabetes inducing sweet balls of synthetic cream. The Suryavanshi version is warm and wholesome inside, light and minty outside and is wrapped in a very high quality Banarasi paan leaf. Similarly, the guava paan balances a sweet fruit chutney with almost savoury ingredients, wrapped in a sharp Calcutta beetel leaf. The long list of carefully curated options will spoil you for choice.<\/p>\n

Sharmaji loves to chat with you, gauge your taste and craft his paan accordingly, which he prefers to put directly into your mouth. In fact, he will refuse to let you touch his fire paan and personally pop it in!! Testimony to his exemplary creations and \u201cvyavahar\u201d is the steady stream of clientele from all over Mumbai and even out-of-town.<\/p>\n

Braving the crushing traffic to reach Suryavanshi Paan Bhandar<\/a> is worth the pain for the paan aficionado and the foodie alike. Its paan like you\u2019ve never had before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cSkip dessert\u2026 keep some space for paan.\u201d When this preposterous suggestion came during dinner after a long day in office, little did I anticipate the feast awaiting me at the brightly lit Suryavanshi Paan Bhandar near the Goregaon MTNL office. I had arrived at the grand gourmet house of the humble paan. Ever since Pradeep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":11887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[338],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[5819,5818,5815,5821,1489,5817,5825,5822,828,5814,5823,5816,5813,5812,911,656,5824,5820],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfridaytalks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfridaytalks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfridaytalks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfridaytalks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfridaytalks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotfridaytalks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfridaytalks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfridaytalks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfridaytalks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfridaytalks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11885"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfridaytalks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}