NAIDUS ‘Hygienic’ CHAATS | An Engineer & Accountant Transform Their Father’s 35-Year-Old CHAAT Cart!

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After years of working for a paani-puri vendor, Kuppuram Naidu saved enough to set up a chaat cart in the eighties in the far flung suburb of Basaveshwar Nagar in Bengaluru. His sons, Gokul and Sarvan, would turn up at the cart after school to help their father, and in between preparing chaat, serving customers and doing the dishes, catch up on their homework under street lights. The years passed, Gokul became an engineer, his brother a cost accountant. Unable to find a suitable job though, Gokul turned back to his father’s trade, and aided by his brother, has transformed the cart to a food truck. And not just any food truck, this engineer and cost accountant duo have aspirations to be the most hygienic street food operation serving authentic chaats! Made to the age-old recipes of their father who has since retired to farming, and with almost every component of the chaat prepared by them with the assistance of their mother, Shanthi Kuppuram.
I drive up to Naidus Chats to see this for myself and also savour a few of their popular offerings made to that has made them the cynosure of their neighbourhood.
Masala Puri
Bengaluru’s popular ‘local’ chaat offering is served in an avatar that is spicy but doesn't subdue the aroma and warming spices of the ‘masala’ that is at the heart of this concoction. The masala has depth of flavour, this chaat can be a filling snack with the white peas.
Rs 30 (usd 0.4)
8.5/10
Sev Puri
Not a Mumbai version with potatoes, but topped with onions, spiced peanuts, chilli powder, seasoning, chutneys and sev, this chaat is a riot of textures. From the crispy crunch of the papri to the moist crunch of the onions and the spicy nutty bite of the peanuts, laced with the chilli-coriander-mint green chutney balanced with the tangy sweetness of the jaggery-tamarind chutney.
Rs 30 (usd 0.4)
9/10
Dahi Puri
The dahi puri is burdened with potatoes, white peas, peanuts, chutneys and the aromatic masala before being topped with yoghurt, sev and boondi. A sumptuous chaat if you are looking for one.
Rs 30 (usd 0.4)
7/10
Paani Puri
The paani puri is light and chatpata, not too spicy or the sort that will singe your palate. The potatoes and chickpeas, just enough to give it a creamy bite.
Rs 30 (usd 0.4)
8/10
ADDRESS - Naidus Chats, 651, 8th Main Road, 3rd Block, Basaveshwara Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560079; tel: [phone]
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