One of the things we are missing the most about our suspended backpacking jaunts, especially around South East Asia, is the ubiquity of the grab-and-go convenience store. Be it 7-Eleven, Lawson or Family Mart, picking up everything from a bowl of hot tom yum soup to iced Vietnamese coffee at their live food counters is literally an in-and-out five-minute affair.

And, while we in Mumbai have been warming up to the concept of shopping for knick-knacks at our local petrol pump-cum-auto service station convenience stores over the last decade or so, fuelling up on freshly made food at such places has eluded us. Thus far, that is.