It's 2 am in Mumbai, and you're starving. Most restaurants will long since have shut their doors, leaving you with two options - an overpriced hotel coffee shop, or the delicious street food offerings of South Bombay. Institutions in their own right and beloved by those who have eaten their satisfying offerings, Bade Miya's and Ayub's are two of the best-known street food vendors in Mumbai. If you want local color and local tastes, look no further.

To many Mumbai is the best emblem of cosmopolitan city in India. This is undoubtedly true but for two reasons. It is the financial capital of India and for that people from all parts of the country and of different social sectors come to Mumbai. This forms the perfect social blending and make it more receptive. This has resulted in the changing of lifestyles also. Being the inherent part of the state of Mahasrashtra it was once under the dominant influence of the Marathi culture.