{"id":5690,"date":"2016-03-30T01:31:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T20:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5690"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:18:13","slug":"foodies-mumbais-food-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=5690","title":{"rendered":"The Five Types of Foodies You Meet at Mumbai\u2019s Food Festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"\nT<\/span>his weekend, alongside spoken word nights in sushi bars, and <\/span>Ladies\u2019 Nights<\/span><\/a> with 300 men in sunglasses, Mumbai will also host its very own food festival. Featuring a spread inspired by cuisines from all over the country (including the miss adventurous stuff like fried silkworms), the Isuzu XFood festival will be held at Mahalaxmi Race Course, and is bound to be welcomed by hundreds of hungry Mumbaikars asking for more ketchup on their fries.\u00a0\n\nAs you make your way to this two-day festival, however, you may find yourself feeling slightly out of depth, having consumed most of your other meals in your pajamas in front of the <\/span>TV<\/span><\/a>. So, to help guide you through the day, refer to this handy list of every kind of person you might bump into, and exactly how to react in these situations.\u00a0\n\nThe Too-Full-Too-Soon<\/b>\n\nThis guy was so excited to be at a food festival he\u2019s eaten three parathas, two eggs, and half a portion of <\/span>butter chicken<\/span><\/a> at the very first stall. Now for the next few hours he\u2019ll sluggishly follow everyone else around, clutching his stomach, and wishing he had enough space for just a couple of more momos. He is also very likely to be found a few minutes later running around the perimeter of the lawn, trying to work up a second appetite.\u00a0\n\n\"Local-Seafood\"\n
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Vegetarians will eat the fish from the fish curry, and the gravy of the pork curry, all the while maintaining that they were vegetarian all along.<\/p>\n

Isuzu XFood Festival<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\nThis group of festival-goers, suffers from the fairly common disease known as \u201cpremature ingestion\u201d \u2014 it affects 4 out of 10 attendees at every food festival. Symptoms include saying, \u201cYaar I wish I could eat this right now,\u201d and Googling \u201chow long does it take to digest butter chicken\u201d. \n\nThe Still Somehow Hungry<\/b>\n\nSumo wrestlers eat too little in comparison with this food festival regular. They\u2019ve paid the \u20b9500 entry and they aren\u2019t going to stop until they\u2019ve got their money\u2019s worth, down to the last paisa. Usually seated in a corner, sweating from their foreheads, this sort didn\u2019t come here to socialise or take in the view. They\u2019re here to eat everything they can get their hands and feet on, so make sure you\u2019re not standing too close to the fish curry stall. You can often find them still seated in the same spot up to thirty minutes after the <\/span>festival<\/span><\/a> has ended, powering through their ninth course as the staff clean up around them.\u00a0\n\nThe Self-Proclaimed World-Class Chef<\/b>\n\nLook out for this kind of food festival regular because there\u2019s only so much time you can spend listening to very detailed recipes of dishes you\u2019re never going to make. This chef doesn\u2019t care much for any of the food being served at the venue, because they make better \u2014\u00a0and honestly more complex \u2014 versions of the exact same dishes every weekend.\u00a0\n\n

The best kind of food festival is one where the sound of chewing drowns out the chatter of conversation.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nThey can fillet a fennel seed, and poach a milkshake faster than you can <\/span>book tickets on insider.com<\/span><\/a>. Of course, they never invite you to try these dishes for yourself, so you\u2019re just going to have to take their word for it when they say Sanjeev Kapoor once praised their cooking. Do yourself a favour and steer clear of this crowd if you don’t like hearing where your food comes from.\n\nThe Vegetarian (But Not Really)<\/b>\n\nThis person is pure-veg, at least until they smell three chickens in a tandoor. After that it\u2019s a free-for-all. Their dietary restrictions follow an <\/span>odd-even<\/span><\/a> pattern, depending on the stall they visit. They\u2019ll eat the fish from the fish curry, and the gravy of the pork curry, all the while maintaining that they were vegetarian all along. Play along with them, because nothing ruins the mood at a food festival like you accusing someone of lying about their food habits.\u00a0\n\nThe Food Extremist\u00a0<\/b>\n\nUnless the food festival features a menu of duck liver, octopus, or snails, the food extremist is very unlikely to be impressed. This person has eaten grasshoppers fresh from a field in Thailand, gutted their own puffer fish in Japan, and de-scaled a crocodile in <\/span>Australia<\/span><\/a>. They\u2019ll enthrall you with tales about how all these meats tasted like chicken, before going on to shame you for only being experimental enough to eat the chicken. \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with you,\u201d they might ask, \u201cDo you hate good food?\u201d \n\n\"Lucknowi-Tundey-Kebabs\"\n

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The food extremist will enthrall you with tales about how all these meats tasted like chicken, before going on to shame you for only being experimental enough to eat the chicken.<\/p>\n

Isuzu XFood Festival<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\nOf course, if your visit to the food festival goes the way it\u2019s meant to, you won\u2019t even register any of these people\u2019s presence, since you\u2019ll be too focused on your plate. The best kind of food festival is one where the sound of chewing drowns out the chatter of conversation.\n\n\u2014\u2014\u00a0\n\n(Head down to the Isuzu XFood festival this weekend to sample exotic cuisines from almost every part of the country. Book your tickets <\/span><\/i>here<\/span><\/i><\/a>.)<\/i>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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