Updated On: 04 June, 2019 07:06 AM IST | Mumbai | Suman Mahfuz Quazi
In the spirit of Ramazan, we went night crawling across the lesser-known foodie hubs of Madanpura and Kurla to return with delectable early morning eats for sehri

The wrinkles on chacha’s face are like writings on the sands of time. He is working his spindly limbs vigorously, kneading and patting the dough while an adolescent peers over a cauldron of bubbling oil waiting with a ladle longer than his arm. He, and many others like him, burning the midnight oil, toiling away under dim incandescent bulbs on streets across the country, are simply here to feed. Eid is their grand daawat, and everyone is invited.
This Ramazan, we decided to take the limelight off iftaar and shed it on sehri (the first and equally important meal of the day). We stopped our feet from dragging us to Mohammed Ali Road — possibly Mumbai’s most popular food hub during this time of the year — and took a turn at the Nagpada Junction into the bustling lanes of Madanpura, ending our night-crawl in Kurla, another culinary cosmos, in our quest to explore the lesser-known.