Google Doodle celebrates India’s street food Pani Puri with a game; here’s how to play

Google is celebrating India’s much cherished street food “Pani Puri” with a doodle. It could be surprising for many to see Google Doodle coming up with an inactive game to celebrate one of India’s most popular street foods on July 12. The reason is even more interesting.

On this day in 2015, a restaurant in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, created history by finding a mention on the Golden Book of World Records for serving 51 varieties of Pani Puri.

About the Pani Puri Google Doodle

Google has made the doodle to celebrate the mouth-watering flavourful food item with an interactive game where Google termed Pani Puri as a “popular South Asian street food made of crispy shell stuffed with potatoes, chickpeas, spices or chillies and flavoured waters”. Even in the past, Google has created doodles on different food items such as Pizza, Kimchi, Strawberries, Bubble tea and many more.

In this interactive doodle, the player is given a chance to help the vendors to serve the orders of Pani Puri. The player is tasked with choosing to match the customer’s choice flavours with the puri.

How to play

Step 1: Click on Google Doodle on the homepage of the search engine

Step 3: Choose the suitable mode as to play in ‘Timed’ or ‘Relaxed’

Step 4: Fulfil orders by clicking on the Pani Puri flavours

What is Pani Puri?

Pani Puri is a popular street food in India. Crispy balls made of semolina (suji) and wheat flour (atta) are stuffed with potatoes, peas, spices and flavoured water. In different parts of the country, it is known as Puchka, Gol Gappa and Gup Chup as well.

It has now become one of the most-loved street foods in almost all states across India.

Origin of Pani Puri

Having Pani Puri is more than just getting satisfied with the craving but also a way to connect with the street food culture in India. There is an interesting story behind the origin of Pani Puri. It’s believed that the origin of Pani Puri is linked to the Mahabharat era. It is believed that the popular snack was created by Draupadi when she got newly married to the Pandavas. Her mother-in-law, Kunti, challenged her to use the left-over aloo sabzi and wheat dough and make something fulfilling that can satisfy all her five husbands.

Hence, Draupadi used her creativity and made small and bite sized puri that can help to satisfy the hunger.