Panipuri is one of the best street food you can have in Bangladesh. It's filled with chickpeas with a whole lot of spices & green chillis. The tamarind sauce adds a tangy-sweet taste. Your mouth will explode with all the different tastes of the puri.
The fact is, you may not find this food anywhere in the restaurant but only on the roadside vans and carts. So we have to enjoy it on the street or takeaway for home.
I guess, there's no need to explain why we all avoided street food for many days. I still don't feel comfortable eating on the street or taking food from the street cart. But while coming across this cart in my locality, I couldn't resist but ordered some. My mouth was watering seeing the puries.
Let me share my experience...
The fluffy round-shaped crispy thing is called 'puri'. And the sauce is what we call 'Pani'.
This is the setting of the van. You can see the amount of spice and chillis there.
I know, I know it doesn't look very hygienic because it's not!
The whole cart is open, all the ingredients are probably got a good amount of road dust as well. So I wouldn't recommend anyone to have this food, especially in this pandemic. But you know, I couldn't resist but take away some after many many days.
chilies!
And more chilies on the tamarind sauce!
My order is being prepared.
They usually give you 15 puries with some sauce for only $0.30. Yeah, this is how cheap the food is. But don't think it tastes bad because of the price. I wouldn't say this cart serves the best puri in the town but it was definitely worth trying. Also, this food costs almost the same all over the country and is vastly popular because of its crispy, tangy-sweet flavor.
I bought some home, was not feeling comfortable taking off my mask and eating them on the street.
There's an Indian version of PaniPuri, you may have seen that on screen, I don't know. Those are big and filled with more sauce than filling. Our version is smaller and filled with chickpea filling and a small amount of sauce. I have tried both and both of them are good.
I hope your mouth also watering as well like me, I'm still feeling like having some while writing this post. That's the magic of PaniPuri!
