The Irani presence in Bombay has two avatars. One is Zoroastrian, the other Islamic. One is explored in text, through conversations with friends. The other opens up through images, in conversations with strangers. A city, or a people, is as intimate, or alien, as one’s access to it. In the course of exploration, what had seemed familiar was revealed in all its strangeness, and what was strange introduced as familiar. This is an attempt to understand the Bombay Irani, and approach histories, personal and political, constructed through mythologies of food and longing; a memory-map of being Iranian in the city of Bombay.