Live to eat

I sometimes wish that I was non-vegetarian.They have a wider choice of food and the names of the dishes sound so colourful.
But among the vegetarian dishes ,my favourite one is paani puri.Hats off to the guy who invented this dish.I remember first eating this when I was in 6th Std in Hyderabad.I think,subconsciously,I was hooked.I do not remember when my next dose of this delicacy was,but I developed a passion during high school.
Imagine the ecstasy-first the poori goes into your mouth,then it bursts.The floodgates open ,the paani rushes out over your tongue stimulating the taste buds-sweet,sour,salt and sometimes bitter.The paani drips out of the angle of your mouth and you lap it up.The paani descends into the oesophagus lighting a fire and then into the cauldron of the stomach being churned for all its worth.
There are several names for paani puri-gol gappa etc.The poori is made from atta or sooji.
In Bangalore,my favourite paani poori places are-Sheshadripuram,VV Puram.Shankar Chaat house and near my house.
The filling is usually green peas or sometimes alu or hesarukalu(English word?).I think the best is hesarukalu as it does not have a dominating taste.