Do you watch fusion street food videos from India and scream at your laptop and phone screens? If only street vendors could hear our shouts of agony and stop the atrocity! Yet another recent fusion dish has left us helpless. This time it’s Pani Puri Shawarma sold on the streets of Surat in Gujarat. Like many other viral street food dishes, this too has mayonnaise, cheese and Schezwan sauce!
Surat Has A Pani Puri Shawarma & It’s Nothing Like You’d Ever Imagine
Mohammed Futurewala often takes to X (formerly Twitter) to share atrocious fusion food dishes with Netizens. After shocking many with a video of Pune’s viral Idli Pattice, this time he schooled the Internet on Surat’s Pani Puri Shawarma. Reposting a video originally shared by @thegreatindianfoodie on Instagram, Futurewala shocked many with this fusion dish.
Ismail, a pani puri vendor from Surat, embarked on a journey to Turkey, where he was captivated by the flavors of shawarma. Upon his return, he ingeniously fused the two cuisines, creating the unique and delectable Pani Puri Shawarma. His innovative dish quickly became a… pic.twitter.com/0JvsVaB3Ut
— Mohammed Futurewala (@MFuturewala) June 17, 2024
What’s funny is the X user’s fictional story tracing the origins of this Indo-Middle Eastern dish.@MFuturewala writes that Ismail a pani puri vendor from Surat travelled to Turkey. That’s when he came across shawarma. Captivated by its flavours, he returned to his home town to fuse the two cuisines and create the Pani Puri Shawarma. And that’s not all, soon, his innovative dish became a sensation and foodies flocked to try the “culinary marvel”.
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Mayo, Cheese & Whatnot! Netizens Appalled
Let’s just say it’s sarcasm at its best! Because if you really watch the video from start to finish, we wonder if you’d ever want to have pani puri again or even shawarma for that matter. But don’t worry, we took one for the team. In the video, the vendor first takes shredded chicken pieces from the shawarma. Then, he adds thinly sliced cabbage, beetroot and fried potato slivers to the chicken. Next, he adds a big dollop of “mayonnaise chutney”, and a little Schezwan sauce and mixes the ingredients.
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He adds this mixture inside crispy puris. And finishes it with mayonnaise, tomato ketchup and shredded cheese. After blow-torching the puris he serves a plate full of Pani Puri Shawarmas to his customers.
Netizens were quite shocked by this creation that no one asked for! Here are some of the funniest reactions to this unusual dish.
We need to reduce our milk production. Baat baat pe Cheese Block nikal ata hai. Bas abb shaadi viah nei cheese gift karna hi baki reh gaya hai.
— Bawra Hocane (@slyazar) June 17, 2024
Baat baat me cheese grate kar dete hai. These street food vendors have unreal cheese obsession.
— Vishal Saroha (@PayJ_93) June 17, 2024
Yeh to Puri shawarma hua na? Paani kahan hain?
— idlisambar with chutney (@idlisambaru) June 18, 2024
Only when he grated cheese on the pani puri, I was convinced this is an innovation from Gujarat
— Aviraj Singh (Blue Tick) (@avirajsingh) June 18, 2024