Zombie Attack @ Paratha Delight, Borivali West, Mumbai

It's been long since the Zombies have attacked somewhere and written about it, but before the hiatus they had actually attacked a very special place called Paratha Delight. This was back in October, when one fine day Viking got a comment on the previous blog inviting them to this place. As it was the festive season, they had to choose one slow day in between Navratri and prepared themselves for the attack.

When you hear about a place, you generally have notion about it, our zombies also had. But the moment they reached the place, they got a surprise. It was a pure veg joint, well they obviously didn't expect that. As the menu came, it had a bunch of specialty parathas in it. Some of those were pretty weird combinations like 'Maggi Paratha' and 'Pizza Paratha'. After scrutinizing the whole menu Noyonsense settled for Pizza Topping Paratha, Swedelight went for Pav Bhaji Paratha, Amylicious didnt take much risk and went for the Mushroom Paratha and Viking ordered for 'Cheese Maggi Paratha'. 
 
Well the food came in no time and each one had to say something about their Parathas. While Swedelight was delighted with her Pav Bhaji, Noyonsense was busy finding the sense in making a pizza shaped paratha. While Amylicious was crribing (as usual) on the uncooked red chilli powder in her mushroom paratha, Viking was unsure if he likes his favorite maggi inside the Paratha.

But all hell broke loose when the dessert came, Chocolate Paratha. Probably the most innovative dessert the zombies have had in the recent times, and it was perfect. That made their mood for the night and they returned home happy and content. Surely the video will visually depict the journey and you guys will try this place . Till next attack, keep watching the Bhookhhad Zombies, only and only on this website. Adios…

Zombie Attack @ Grain & Bagel, Malad West, Mumbai

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It's Sunday morning, and after six days of not having proper breakfast, this is the day when normal people indulge into one of the seven deadly sins, Gluttony. But Gluttony is no sin for our dear zombies. They generally commit this sin on a regular basis, and they are proud to do so. Coming back to Sunday, our zombies feel unusually hungry on Sunday mornings, and they look for places where they can commit their particular sin ‘Gluttony’.

On one such Sunday Zombies decided to attack the corporate section called Interface in Malad West, Mumbai. Interface is a place, which has at least hundred corporate offices, mostly MNCs. During the week, this place is always buzzing with people, cars and parking agents. But on Sundays, Interface can be as empty as Tilaknagar station at 1am. Other than 10 odd street-side stalls and a solo café coffee day, this place has no other proper eating joints. There used to be a Crepe Station sometimes back, which also used to stay open till 3am in the night (Off course I am talking about Pre-Dhoble era).   But that place had shut down quite a while ago, so the Coffee Day franchise established itself quite well.

Amylicious's Smoked Chicken Zatar

Now since our zombies got to know about this new Bagel shop that has started exactly at the same place, where crepe station used to be; they couldn’t refrain themselves, and reached there. They fell in love with the ambience at the first sight. What was more intriguing that they could actually get their own sandwich assembled (Well to be honest, isn’t that what Subway is all about?). Well let’s not deny the small joy that the get from creating sandwiches.

Noyonsense's Tuna Baquette

While Swedelight went for a signature grilled bagel with fluffy scrambled egg, chicken and cheddar, Amylicious got her own sandwich made with Smoked & Teriyaki chicken with button mushrooms in a grilled multigrain zatar pita bread. She specially asked for the buttermilk ranch sauce. While Noyonsense couldn’t decide  (like always) about what he wanted, Viking got his sandwich made in a multigrain bagel with garlic cheese spread and a stuffing of smoked chicken, fried egg, cucumber, mushroom, lettuce and black olives ( he is very particular about his veggies). He also topped the stuffing with a dash of escalope paprika sauce. And Noyonsense finally decided to have a smoked chicken and tuna in a baguette with lots of mustard sauce in it. 

Swedelight's Signature Bagel

But Gluttony didn’t stop there. They also ordered for peanut butter and cinnamon pancake with apple syrup and a couple of ordinary panckes with maple syrup. Well a cappuccino, Iced café mocha and café latte also added to the table.

Viking's Egg & Chicken Bagel

Well while Noyonsense was totally going gaga over his sandwich and Swedelight also felt content enough after having a chunky bite of her bagel, Amylicious felt the smoked chicken should have been warmed before serving and she gave half of her sandwich back to counter to warm it up a little bit. Viking was more than happy to have such a wonderful bagel, and he didn’t leave any chance to boast about how his choice of adding an egg added to the taste ( Typical him).

Time for the pancakes and the fight for syrup began ( Why fight over Syria, when you can just fight over syrup). Amylicious snatched the small container of maple syrup and asked the waiter to get another one for the rest. Viking and Noyonsense were content with their peanut pancake. It was not mindblowing, but different for sure. They all made sure they fulfilled their hunger (for the time being) without any games.

So the zombies, happy and straight, left the place with a full stomach and a happy heart. What else do you want from a Sunday breakfast? Till next attack, keep watching the Bhookhhad Zombies, only and only on this website. Adios…

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Zombie attack@ Dara's Dhaba, Dahisar, Mumbai

In Mumbai, Western Expressway is one of the best roads to drive on. One fine day, the zombies decided to go on a drive towards Ghodbunder, which is the northern part of Mumbai, frankly it is in the Thane district and can safely be termed as outskirts. As they didnt have breakfast, they thought, they would eat on a roadside dhaba ( Not having breakfast was the part of the plan as they really wanted to go for the kill)

 They were actually looking for this place called 'The Haveli', they kept on driving and driving but  couldnt find the place. At the same time their zombie instincts were rising and hunger was about to strike. While Amylicious was the first one to get hunger attack, SweDelight also was getting the pangs seating beside her. Viking decided to take a u turn and go to one of the dhabas nearby. And after five minutes of taking the turn they reach this huge place call Dara's Dhaba. (I doubt Dara Singhji had anything to do with the dhaba). And once they reach the Dhaba, they just couldnt wait to pounce on the menu

As you expect in a dhaba, the menu has both North Indian and Chinese dishes (One thing I don't understand about Indian restaurants that, every restaurant has to have a Chinese menu, why this fascination for Chinese food? I would like some comments please). Coming back to our zombies, they ordered for A special punjabi chhas ( butter milk), Bhindi kurmura ( Crunchy ladies finger), Chicken Aftab ( Shredded chicken with capsicum; no connection with Mr. Shivdasani), and Butter naan's made from wheat ( Sometimes it's really funny how the zombies act so stupid; they order wheat nan because its healthy, and at the same time they order for butter. Grow up kiddos). 

The chhas came in a 500 ml heavy steel glass, with full of ginger, jeera (cumin), dhaniya (coriander), chillies and some other masala. One sip and Viking realised, on other part of the town, this chhaas could have been easliy passed off as Raita. Though it was tasty, but the dahi (curd) was not battered properly so he couldn't have it for long. And then in comes the bhindi kurmura. Though it looked like mirchi cutlet, but it is actually bhindi dipped in a besan (gram flour) batter, deep fried and lemon chilly powder sprinkled on it. they thought it was damn good.

The chicken aftab came soon followed by the confused naan, and Amylicious got pissed with the capsicum strips in it. The food went out damn fast and its time for desserts so they called for the usual suspects, jalebi and rabdi. Surprisingly the sweetness in both the dishes were perfect and all of them were quite happy by the end of it. Swedelight was thinking of wasting one jalebi ( By the way she already had wasted half naan), but Amylicious came to the rescue and finished it off.

So the zombies got saved once again by the food that they got in Dara's Dhaba. And since they feel the responsibility as good zombies to spread the hunger, lets hear from them what they feel about this experience.