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 | | I do not know which kind Goa Portuguesa serves, but the bhakri, a sort of a thick roti made of dry shrimps which is an essential ingredient of the balchao, comes from Luotolim, our Mario Miranda's native village and the place he disappears to every once in a while. |
 | | There are women in the village who make the bhakri, which is later sold in the Margao market. |
 | | Vivek Bhanushali, 18 years with the Taj and now the genial general manager of the Goa Portuguesa, explains: "First you make the pickle, you require palm vinegar and palm feni, and the feni has to be genuine, home made in a respectable Goa home, not synthetic. |
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