Celebrating Pani Puri

Google Dooles 12.07.2023 03:15  Date: July 12, 2023 Today’s interactive game Doodle celebrates pani puri — a popular South Asian street food made of a crispy shell stuffed with potatoes, chickpeas, spices, or chilis and flavoured waters. And there’s a variety of pani puri for everyone’s taste buds! On this day in 2015, a restaurant in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, achieved the World Record for serving the most flavors of pani puri by offering 51 options! This snack goes by different names, as there are many regional variations that exist across India. In Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, the name pani puri describes the bite-sized street food commonly filled with boiled chickpeas, a white pea mixture, and sprouts dipped in tangy and spicy pani. In the northern Indian states of Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, and New Delhi, the potato and chickpea-filled treat dunked in jaljeera-flavored water is called gol gappe or gol gappa. The name puchkas or fuchkas is used in West Bengal and parts of Bihar and Jharkhand, with the key ingredient for this variety being tamarind pulp. A legend says that the epic Mahabharata proposes that the newlywed Draupadi invented pani puri when she was challenged to feed five men with scarce resources. With just some leftover aloo sabzi and a small amount of wheat dough to work with, Draupadi got creative. She filled small pieces of fried dough with the potato and vegetable mixture. Thus, pani puri was created. Though there are many different types of filling and pani for everyone's unique palette, there are two things everyone can agree on: eat the pani puri quickly to avoid the puri getting soggy or leaking, and always eat it in one bite to avoid a crumbly mess. Play today’s interactive game Doodle, and help a street vendor team fill orders for pani puri. Choose the puris that match each customer's flavor and quantity preference to keep them happy. Let’s get to serving! Doodler Food Research Pani puri from the local chaat place: potato, chickpea, onion, tamarind, and mint water with boondi Beauty shot Early Doodle Draft & Art Early draft Puri fillings from left to right: hing , mint, tamarind, potato & onion, sev , garlic, and sprouts Panit states Purnima states The puri patron matrix Pani Puri Doodle Team ART & UX Art & UX Lead: Anthony Irwin Art: Olivia When UX Research: David Sharek ENGINEERING Engineer Lead: Jonathan Shneier Engineers: Grant King, Daniel Dovali, Stephanie Gu MUSIC & SFX Michael Perusse ACCESSIBILITY ADVISOR Peter Saathoff-Harshfield PRODUCTION Marketing | Perla Campos, Caroline Moran, Jessica Sharma, Ankita Chemburkar, Sampada Srivastava, Abhilasha Chhabra Business Affairs & Partnerships | Madeline Belliveau Doodle Team Interactive Leads | Nate Swinehart, Jacob Howcroft Doodle Team Engineering Lead | Tom Tabanao Doodle Team Lead | Jessica Yu Location: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Tags: