On a Friday afternoon that could well be mistaken for dusk, what with the downpour and grey skies, the gloomy ennui at work gives way to spirited discussions about the contents of two boxes of food a colleague brings in from Kandivali. It's time for chai, and even a pack of chaklis will do, but with two warm loaves of bread — resembling plump focaccias, but not quite — before us, the curiosity levels tip the scales in favour of the latter.

A collective "Ah!" is let out when the lid, carved out of the same loaf, is lifted to reveal a creamy filling sitting pretty in the hollowed out bread. The "explosion sandwiches" from Quisyn, a quick-service restaurant in the suburb's Mahavir Nagar, have survived an hour-long ride to Bandra East, but the bread manages to encase the filling without having gone limp. The two variants in the boxes are exotic veg (Rs 200) and chilli cheese paneer (Rs 220), and each already has its set of takers.