Friday, January 25, 2008

Things to do / food to eat with kids in Mumbai

(most of this is from maya and PJ and what they liked doing in mumbai)

  • Cooperage Pony Park (south mumbai)
  • Mumbai Port Trust Joggers Park
  • Chowpatty beach in the morning (its clean and deserted)
  • Bandra bandstand park (on the water). The promenade walk is a couple of km's and has three playgrounds along the way and a Cafe Coffee Day at the end of the promenade.
  • jechand talakshi toys (51 empire bldg, above mcdonalds at VT). A great selection of montessori based teaching materials.
  • nehru science center, museum and planetorium. We did not get time to visit this, but it was high on our list
  • Skip Byculla Zoo, Taraporevala Aquarium and Aquaria (unless u want to buy some aquarium supplies)
  • Balodyan a playground for kids and women ONLY. This is near charni road station
Food and restaurants that are kid friendly
  • Cholle Bhatura from Cream Center
  • Natural IceCream
  • Kulfi Falooda at Badshah (near crawford market)
  • Sada (Plain) Dosa at any Udupi restaurant
  • Pani Puri at Elko's (bandra). The kids can experiment and make their own pani puris and decide what goes in each puri
  • Fresh Lime Soda or Lassi in any restaurant. A good alternative to water and not too unhealthy (if u regulate the amount of sweet syrup u add)
  • Some snacks (chicken pattice, veggie quiche) from RTI (ratan tata institute, colaba)
  • The bakeries carry quite good bread. We've bought good bread from Birdy's and CeleJour. La Pattisserie makes excellent cakes. Maya chose a chocolate truffle cake for her birthday which was very good

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