Hot Chaat: Soul Cocina Brings India to Mission Street Food

T. Palmer

Soul Cocina's panuchos: Neither Indian nor on the MSF menu, but also hot.

​Roger Feely, the culinary instructor/street food purveyor behind Soul Cocina, will once again collaborate with Mission Street Food this Thursday, September 10 at Lung Shan (2234 Mission at 18th St.). Feely told SFoodie that his "Soul Cocina Chaat" will be an Indian street food menu that will include small dishes such as bhel puri (puffed rice snack), poha, vadai (lentil fritters), and royal falooda kulfi (a dessert Feely used to make when he was the pastry chef at Citizen Cake). His proceeds will benefit his own nonprofit Beacon Culinary Project at the Western Addition Beacon Center, where he teaches inner city youth how to cook locally and sustainably.

Feely is also organizing a street food soiree called "Feed the Poor Eat the Rich" for September 27 (more details on that soon) and will host his next private homemade Indian cooking class at Jharna's Kitchen on October 17.