The chairman of the Mahindra group has posted a video of a food stall in Chennai that sells dosas and idlis served with sweet treats
A sreengrab of the video shared by Anand Mahindra on Twitter
From rasmalai and gulab jamun cakes to chocolate dosas, the list fusion food that we come across every day in our lives is endless. And they are not just found high-end restaurants and eateries. Some of the best of fusion food come from the food stalls on the streets and even industrialist Anand Mahindra agrees to the point.
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The chairman of the Mahindra group has posted a video of a food stall in Bengaluru that sells dosas and idlis served with sweet treats. Stall owner Manjunath doesn't just stop at chocolate dosa but a step ahead and serves dosas with ice-cream! He serves the dosa with options of different flavours of ice-cream being placed upon it or alongside the dish. The dosa is further doused in chocolate sauce before being served to the customers.
Mahindra shared the video giving full marks to Manujnath’s innovation and called the Indian street vendors an 'inexhaustible source of innovation' in his caption. "All the product design teams in our Group should regularly visit vendors & draw inspiration from them!" he further said.
Not a fan of ice cream dosas, but full marks to this gentleman’s inventiveness. In fact Indian street vendors are an inexhaustible source of innovation. All the product design teams in our Group should regularly visit vendors & draw inspiration from them! #whatsappwonderbox pic.twitter.com/G65jg70Oq5
— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) February 20, 2020
The Twitterati was divided over the video, posted last week on Twitter, that received more than 128,400 views with over 9,600 likes and was retweeted more than 1,400 times. Some praised the concept of fusing ice-cream with dishes like dosas and idlis.
Some innovative ice-cream shops have been pushing the status quo of how an ice-cream should look & taste from traditional scoops, bars, cones, sundaes etc.– here is an ode to the unusual/hatke ice-creams--*Fried Ice Cream *Icecream Dosa *ChiliGuava Icecream Roll *Icecream Burger pic.twitter.com/W1niJ3fZqg
— MANOJ K JHA aka MANU (@manojgjha) February 20, 2020
This is disrespect to dosa period.
— Prashant (@ekDoTeen4) February 20, 2020
Indian version of waffles... Loved the concept...thanks for sharing it @anandmahindra
— neha gupta (@nehagupta1982) February 20, 2020
Definitely street foods serve tasty food which start hotels don't. Relishing that gives happiness unparalleled
— Bharath kashetty (@bharathkashetty) February 20, 2020
And some users called the fusion food a disrespect to dosas.
This is disrespect to dosa period.
— Prashant (@ekDoTeen4) February 20, 2020
Sacrilege of Dosa and Idli. There are ppl who ruin classics and then there are those who eat it ðu00c2u009f¤¯ðu00c2u009f¤¯ðu00c2u009f¤¯ðu00c2u009f¤¯
— Nidhi Sharma (@pedestrianwoman) February 20, 2020
Dose kaa itna apmaan ðu00c2u009fu00c2u0098ðu00c2u009fu00c2u0098ðu00c2u009fu00c2u0098 pic.twitter.com/guwxMFBjc3
Original masala dosa with potato subji and coconut chatni nothing will match that invention and most healthy and right calorie food is idli samba are
— Mukund (@MukundKattimani) February 20, 2020
Sir we all had jam and sugar with dosa. But they are not dosa but pan cakes. This also.
— ದà³u00c2u0080ಪà²u00c2u0095à³u00c2u008d ಮಾà²u00c2u009cಿಪಾà²u00c2u009fಿಲà³u00c2u008d Deepak Majipatil (@deepakmajipatil) February 20, 2020
Ice cream dosa and any other types of designer dosa is a disgrace to the traditional dosas
Innovation factor not withstanding, the South Indian fraternity gave the blasphemous dish er an ice cold welcome..
— Vrinda Pisharody (@vrindapisharody) February 20, 2020
Families have threatened the original dosa with excommunication if it continues this experimentation :)
god!!! how is it going to taste ........ i don't think i wanna try it ðu00c2u009fu00c2u0098¨
— Abhishek Punjabi (@CommonMan145) February 21, 2020
Won't ever try this in my life because I prefer to have Indian dishes in their classical form. Totally appreciate the ingeniousness though!
— Trisha Malhotra (@TrishaMalhotra7) February 20, 2020
What do think of this fusion food?
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