What did I eat?

It often happens in India that people offer you incredibly good food but you do not know or you forget the name. In other situation you find out delicious food in some kiosk or at the restaurant but you go away remembering only the taste in your mouth.
I submit my personal unsolved cases, hoping you can have an answer.
At Madgaon station I bought some kind of homemade biscuits, light golden in color, round and thin, the taste was not sweet, but they tended to savory. In the train some persons said that they are a specialty of Goa, but I do not remember anything else.

Travelling by train, a lady offered me some home-cooked food, it seemed chapati but was it not, wasmore dark and sweet, prepared with brown sugar and coconut. She said that is a specialty of Bengalore and Tamil Nadu. I only remember that it was one of the most delicious things ever eaten in India.
Another person who attended the "show", wanting to have is own role, and after realized that I had not an excellent relationship with the food too spicy, at the first station bought some food which then promptly offered me. They were delicious not spicy potato dumplings, round shape, deep fried outside, but very soft inside. I think he bought them from some samosas delaer or similar.
Will these memories have a name?

Your chapati was a coconut paratha by the sound of it - actually a Kerala specialty. The deep fried item sounds like an aloo tikki (usually served with red sauce) or pakora. The bikkies may have been bolinhas, which are made with semolina and are usually sweet/nutty but there is no reason they can't be made savoury.

Just a sad reminder to be extremely cautious in accepting food from strangers, especially on trains or in other situations where you are traveling with your luggage at hand. There have been instances of people waking up from an unanticipated nap to find their luggage gone.

Hi Ramy,

Please please do not eat or drink any stuff given from strangers, it might be drugged and you will go to sleep and when woken up will be without luggage and other valuables.

It is not that it happens only to foreigners,it happens to locals too so be very ery careful.Go and buy your own food and drink.

Regards
Kunal.

Timely warning.

But still, the what's this food thread idea is a nice one. Let's continue on those lines!

You are all very helpful, thank you guys.
For the "coconut chapati" it must seems very similar to this http://fullmeals.com/rc-sweetcoconut...-parathas.aspx ... thanks abracax
I have to say that coconut was not visible inside the paratha.
The deep fried food seemed to be not aloo tikki, the dumplings were like a ball and without any other vegetables, therefore no green color inside (only gold). I took it during the trip Varanasi-Agra.
I check some pictures on the web and the Goa specialties unfortunately are not bolinhas, mine were more thin, almost like pringles, very crispy, light and without any items inside. They seemed a mixture between biscuits and chips.
Before closing I want to specify that I knew the problem of drugged food on the trains, many times I said "nahi, thanniavad" (sorry for spelling)... but usually because I was scared by spicy items and I always accept food after analizing a little bit the persons in front of me, usually old couples (fried balls), families with children (coconut paratha), ladies and only after a long talk.
Maybe I was very lucky but I have to say that only one time I feel a bad intention in offering me food, walking in Jaipur streets.

P.S. More funny when I was on the train, with a modest pack of choco Britannia biscuit, super hungry and a lot of people around me eating every kind of delicious food for a complete dinner. In that situations, feeling like the male teacher of "Stanley ka dabba" movie, "I prayed for an offer".

Was once offered some fish on the street by a nice old couple in Cairo. As I was walking away I put it in my mouth and it tasted spoiled. I kept it in my mouth until I got out of sight and spit it out! But i'm sure they didn't realise it was bad, they were just happy to interact with a foreigner as they seemed really nice.

But agree with all about being careful about accepting drinks,candy,food, even cigarettes from strangers as all those things can be drugged.

Check out kachori which could be the dumplings.

I think it was a non spicy version of kachori.
Thank you

No anada, i think you misunderstood .. there is one kind of Egyptian rare and unique food called ( faseekh) where the fish taste like rotten... but its very popular in Egypt, and all people who go to Egypt must try it.. so i think those couple were just nice enough to present you a faseekh fish , which is expensive and Rare to be found..

Well they were a poor couple and didn't seem like people who would be eating an expensive fish. But maybe you're right and I spit out a rare and expensive snack. But all I know is it tasted rotten so......

more like these items?? also two of my favorite snacks.

in tamilnadu poli might be more common than coconut paratha. maybe this is the item.
Poli - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puran_Poli

Potato Bonda - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonda

Adiyar, it seems you studied very deeply my cases
The firs image on wiki is exactly what I have eaten and now, maybe, I can say to everybody that I love puran poli
Even with bonda I think you perfectly hit the target: most similar image I found is here http://www.samai.in/recipes/snacks-n...urad-dal-vadai
It's very sad that I can only imagine the taste of this food but glad to started this curious competition.

A Puran Poli is mainly a dish from Maharashtra. And it certainly does not contain coconut. It is made from Jaggery and Split Red gram. May be something similar is made in Karnataka/Tamil Nadu with coconut.

Oh Wow..... Ramy .....you have started one new thread......"Which Food Item Is It".......shou;d go great....