The core Ek Plate team, (from left) Harsh Shah, Anaita Siganporia and Pooja Singh. Pic/Poonam Bathija

Some of the best food memories are often closely tied to street food - that unassuming chaat wala on the street corner, who does something with the masala that makes it like none other. One may well have gone to him for years together but they know him as bhaiyya. India has over 30 lakh street food vendors, of which 2.5 lakh are in Mumbai alone, most shrouded in anonymity. Why does it have to be like that - is a question Harsh Shah asked himself, during his many food escapades in his National College days. Perhaps that's where the idea of Ek Plate (which studied the market to come up with the figures) was born. A city-based startup, currently with a team of seven, Ek Plate aims at being the Zomato for street food for the entire country.