{"id":33475,"date":"2018-10-26T14:59:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T14:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=33475"},"modified":"2018-10-26T14:59:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T14:59:37","slug":"taste-india-madhavs-store-will-fulfill-indian-cravings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/business-culture\/taste-india-madhavs-store-will-fulfill-indian-cravings","title":{"rendered":"Taste of India: Madhav&#8217;s is a store that will fulfill your Indian cravings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>For the last 38 years, Madhav store has been in the Lower Cathedral Road of Cardiff serving the people whenever they&#8217;ve wanted to immerse themselves in Indian food and culture.<\/h2>\n<p>Old man Madhav at Madhav\u2019s Store sits quietly as the customers rush the various sections but he observes everyone. Walking up to him with my shopping cart, he looks up and throws a sweet smile my way\u2014I feel at home. Madhav\u2019s was set up in 1980 almost after two decades of the owner\u2019s arrival in the UK.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33670\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33670\" style=\"width: 563px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-33670\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/edited1-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"317\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33670\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/edited1-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"317\" \/><\/noscript> The perfect amount of light seeps into the store from the front door<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A quaint little Indian shop cum restaurant, Madhav\u2019s is the perfect store for the residents of Cardiff if they like Indian food or would like to try it and the overseas Indian students here to study who might be the feeling home-sick.<\/p>\n<p>You see customers hustling and bustling within the store, talking to the owner of the shop and cracking inside jokes. What comes across is that the store has been more of a legacy than anything else around the area. People know Madhav and they appreciate it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33701\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33701\" style=\"width: 559px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-33701\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/edited3-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"315\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-33701\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/edited3-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"315\" \/><\/noscript> Selection of masalas and dals at Madhav&#8217;s, all priced decently for students to come splurge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You get a range of <i>masalas (condiments) and dals (pulses) <\/i>which for me was the highlight of the store. They even had some dried <i>hilsa fish (<\/i>Ilisha) which I bought just because the inner Bengali in me squealed upon seeing it. Madhav\u2019s wife runs the small restaurant just adjacent to the shop connected through a narrow corridor where she makes South Indian dishes in an open kitchen while the happy customers eat away.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33516\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33516\" style=\"width: 326px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-33516\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/IMG-4324-625x654.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"341\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-33516\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/IMG-4324-625x654.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"341\" \/><\/noscript> Empty table at Madhav&#8217;s. The customers had just left after eating some &#8216;idli-sambar&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Upon asking old Madhav if he worked somewhere before settling down with the store, he replied \u201cOf course. I worked, and I worked hard. You cannot achieve anything substantial if you don\u2019t work hard.\u201d <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33690\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33690\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-33690\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/edited2-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"342\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-33690\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/edited2-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"342\" \/><\/noscript> The restaurant&#8217;s outer door which tells you exactly what Madhav is meant for<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the only authentic Indian stores in and around Cardiff selling everything ranging from spices, pulses and  a whole lot of Indian charisma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":353,"featured_media":33631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"coauthors":[581],"class_list":["post-33475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-culture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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