Sabzi Mandi

The Tom & The Sabzi Mandi

I once had a friend tom to lived in NY city and came to India.


(this is tom...a he's a firangi)

Tom had a passion to shop in a 'sabzi mandi' in India, but he did not know how to do that.

So I helped him and taught him.
I told him, whenever you want to ask the price for an item,
you must say "Aaaaaaaaaay Bhayya! Yeh aaloo/pyaaz/tamatar..etc etc kaise diya"

So he practised a lot and was ready to go.

I shall now describe his experience at the mandi...

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As tom reached the mandi, he started going around to 'bhayyaas' and he knew how to shop now!


Tom: "Aaaaaaay bhayyaa.. Yeh tamatar kaise diya.."



He did not like the offer.....











He went to another bhayyaa
This bhayyaa was very sad.... still tom said..

Tom: "Aaaaaaay bhayyaa.. Yeh beans kaise diya.."
















So now tom wanted to buy some fruit
Tom: "Aaaaaaay bhayyaa.. Yeh cherry kaise diya.."


Seeing the very happy bhayya.. tom got 5 kgs of cherry.
Then he moved on..
















He wanted to eat some imported spices..
so..
Tom: "Aaaaaaay bhayyaa.. Yeh shimla-mirch kaise diya.."


This was very costly... so he didn't buy any..


















Next on, he found a very attractive shop in the mandi
and he saw something very interesting about the vegetables there
(since he was a heath freak)

Tom: "Aaaaaaay bhayyaa.. Yeh organic-gobi kaise diya.."



Then again he moved on.. but unaware of what was about to happen...

































Tom: "Aaaaaaay bhayyaa.. Yeh shimla-mirch kaise diya.."





Tom got a serious chapaat...

(This is a really SERIOUS chapaat!)


Looks like this was a perfectionist and civilized bhayyaa and did not like the
incorrect use of language in our daily life....





Tom never went to the mandi again and gave up Shimla Mirch for life.