Pani Puri

This famed street food has many names: golgappe in the north, puchka in Bengal, and pani puri in Maharashtra. It is sold from large earthenware pots covered with damp red cloths and glass cases filled with puris (small deep-fried breads that look like crisp, hollow balloons). All one has to do is hold a patrel, a flat roll made of dried colocassia leaves, and the vendor will take one puri, crack it open on the top to make a small hole, and fi