New Delhi: Today, in celebration of India’s most demanding street food – Pani Puri, Google has released a fun and interactive Doodle in the form of a minigame.
Today, July 12, 2015, a restaurant in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, served 51 different varieties and flavours of Pani Puri to its customers, earning the establishment a spot in the Golden Book of World Records. In this memory, Google Doodle is featuring it.
Various names, including Fuchka, Golgappa, and Pani Puri, are used to refer to this popular street food in India. The ideal balance of spicy sweet and sour flavours gives Pani Puri its widespread appeal. The food is popular in Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh and is often stuffed with a combination of white peas, sprouts, and sour, spicy pudina-flavoured water. The savoury snack of Golgappa, stuffed with potato and chickpeas, and dipped in jaljeera-flavoured water, is popular in the northern Indian states. The spicy smashed potatoes and tamarind pulp is the main component in the Fuchkas, popular in West Bengal and certain areas of Bihar and Jharkhand.
Keeping all these in mind, Google Doodle presented Pani Puri as a famous ‘South Asian Street Food’ composed of crispy shell packed with spicy potatoes, and flavoured waters. As part of the Google Doodle game, the players will have to play the role of the street seller fulfilling Pani Puri orders by selecting from a variety of Pani Puri flavours in the correct numbers.
The History Behind Pani Puri You May Not Know
Draupadi, a character from the Mahabharata, is often credited for creating Pani Puri. According to the myth, the Pandava brothers were still in exile when they wed Draupadi. One day Draupadi’s mother-in-law, Kunti, instructed her to create something out of the remaining potatoes and some wheat dough to appease the hunger of the Pandava brothers. Draupadi’s with her fine idea created Pani Puri, the small crunchy balls and served it with potatoes. Finally, this appeases their hunger and made them happy.
