Panipuri

Pani puri, the Indian street snack: hollow, deep-fried shells cracked open and stuffed with a spiced filling and cilantro, waiting for the flavored water in the cups behind them. Depending on the city you will hear it called golgappa or puchka too. At a street stall the vendor works one at a time: he pokes a hole in the shell with his thumb, adds a dab of spiced potato, dunks it in tamarind or mint water and sets it in your small leaf bowl, then reaches for the next before you have swallowed. The only rule is to put the whole thing in your mouth at once, or it ends up down your shirt.