Google Doodle Celebrates Popular South Asian Street Food Pani Puri: Google Doodle on Wednesday celebrates the popular South Asian street food ‘Pani Puri’, as 51 different types of pani are found in Indore, Madhya Pradesh on July 12, 2015. The restaurant has made Puri available to its customers and made it to the Golden Book of World Records.
What is pani puri?
Pani Puri is a popular street snack made with a crispy shell and filled with potatoes, chickpeas, spices, chillies and flavored water. It is also known by various names like Puchka, Gol Gappa etc. and is famous in many regions across the country. In Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, pani puri refers to a ‘shaped street food’, usually dipped in a mixture of boiled chickpeas, white peas and sprouts with spiced water.
This fun task was given to the users
In today’s doodle game, the player is tasked to help a street vendor team fulfill panipuri orders. To keep the players happy the puri has to be chosen to match the taste and quantity preference of each customer.
So how was Panipuri discovered?
It is believed that the history of the popular pani puri dates back to the Mahabharata era, when the newly married Draupadi was challenged to feed her five husbands with scarce resources, only a few leftover potatoes and vegetables and a small amount of wheat flour. To work with this, Draupadi stuffed small pieces of fried dough into a mixture of potatoes and vegetables, and thus panipuri was invented.
