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What to eat at India's domestic airports

What to eat at India's domestic airports

Fast food need not not be junk food -- at these four different domestic airports you'll find that street food and regional specialties have made the transition from pavement to tarmac gracefully

In today's Mint newspaper article titled Feasts for Frequent Flyers, Harish Bhat, the COO of a well-known Indian watch company, admits that he's a sucker for airport food and has done the research across the length and breadth of the country without ever missing a flight on account of food distraction. (He runs a watch company after all.)

Bhat's research is buried beneath phrases such as "mouth-watering" "epicurean adventures" of the "culinary treasures that our airports hold" which classifies as descriptive overreach in this case, but let's get to the point, which is his handy list of what's good, where.

At Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport domestic terminal, he says the vada pav passed muster, "However, I missed the pungent red powdery garlic chutney, which is always a part of street-side vada paav variety in Mumbai."

Read on for the pongal in Bangalore, cashew nut pakoda in Chennai, biryani in Hyderabad and berry juice at Leh-Ladakh.

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