Google Doodle celebrates India’s popular snack Pani Puri
New Delhi: Google Doodle is celebrating a popular savoury street food pani puri from India with a fun interactive game on Wednesday. The search giant allows users to help a street vendor fulfill orders for pani puri. According to each one’s flavour and quantity preferences, each customer can choose different flavours for the bite-sized snack.
Google is celebrating with this premier Indian snack because on this day in 2015, a restaurant called Indori Zayka made it to Golden Book of World Records for serving the highest number of flavours of pani puri by offering 51 options.
“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,” wrote Google on their blog.
Although there are several types of filling for everyone's unique palette, Google mentioned two things which almost everyone follow. “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,” it shared.
This popular street food is commonly known by various regional names, including golgappa and puchka.
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India post 171/7 against England in T20 WC semi-final
Georgetown (Guyana), Jun 27: Skipper Rohit Sharma hit a half-century but England spinners put up a fabulous show before India posted an above par score of 171 for seven in the T20 World Cup semi-final here on Thursday.
The par score on a slow Providence Stadium track is 167.
The India skipper hit six delectable boundaries and two sixes in his 39-ball-57 while Suryakumar Yadav got 47 off 36 balls but heavy rains that stopped them on tracks after eight overs did disturb their momentum.
The duo added 73 runs for the third wicket. Virat Kohli (9) once again failed and now has a tally of 75 runs from seven games in the tournament.
Part-time off-spinner Liam Livingstone (0/24 in 4 overs) and leg-spinner Adil Rashid (1/25 in 4 overs) were brilliant in keeping things under check, giving only 49 runs in their eight overs.
It was finally left to Hardik Pandya (23 off 13 balls), who took on Chris Jordan in the 18th over, hitting two consecutive sixes that took them close to 150 before Ravindra Jadeja (17) and Axar Patel (10) took India past the par score.
All the frontline English bowlers were among wickets with Chris Jordan (3/37) having the best figures.
Brief Scores:
India 171 for 7 in 20 overs (Rohit Sharma 57, Suryakumar Yadav 47, Hardik Pandya 23, Chris Jordan 3/37, Adil Rashid 1/25, Jofra Archer 1/33, Reece Topley 1/25, Sam Curran 1/25).
