Who doesn’t love a good baby onion? Sitting in bowls at restaurants, these little ones keep desperate hunger pangs at bay in that interminable wait between the order and the food.

Tear-jerker: A trader at Vashi’s APMC said that while at least two trucks full of the vegetable were coming in to the market daily a month ago, there is a grinding shortage of the same these days, causing a rise in demand and consequent rise in price