India

Bun Maska

The cheapest line on an Irani-café menu and one of Mumbai's most loved: a soft bun split and spread with a real, visible layer of butter. Nothing to hide behind, so each part has to be right.

Bhurji Pav

Bhurji pav is the egg sandwich of the Mumbai pavement: scrambled eggs cooked deliberately dry so the soft pav stays intact, with the griddle scrambling the egg and toasting the roll at once.

Bhajji Pav

Bhajji pav is Mumbai's monsoon sandwich: a crisp besan-battered onion fritter stuffed hot into a soft pav, with red garlic chutney and a fried green chili, eaten beside scalding chai in the rain.

Beef Keema Pav

Beef keema pav is the Muslim Mumbai version of keema and pav: dark dry spiced mince scooped with soft buttered pav, made with water-buffalo carabeef in the lanes of Bhendi Bazaar and Bohri Mohalla.