When it comes to innovating new food combinations, Indian street vendors are always a step ahead. The new fad taking the internet by storm is a street vendor’s flying falooda in Surat. Food vlogger Raj Patel hunted down the street delicacy enjoyed by locals in Gujarat and introduced his internet audience to the brilliance of the famous dessert.
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Viral Video Introduces Flying Falooda From Surat
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The one-of-a-kind and visually stunning dessert impressed people on Instagram. In the video that went viral on the platform, staff at the shop were seen preparing the street food delicacy. As the name of the dessert goes, the process of making it involves most of its ingredients flying across the station.
The video starts with the staff procuring the ice cream to top off the cup of decadent falooda. Then in one hand, a staff member at the outlet holds four glass mugs. He proceeds to fill up the sweet concoction with the basic ingredients that constitute a falooda.
However, from what is shown in the clip, it seems that the Surat outlet skips adding cooked vermicelli to the sweet and cold blend unlike what Delhi street food stalls do. A basic falooda in the capital city comes with a blend of rabri, ice cream, and vermicelli however its Gujarati counterpart apparently skips the long, slender and slimy vermicelli.
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The clip ends with the staff adding dollops of ice cream to the dessert by tossing it in the air and catching it with the glass mug. Once topped with three dallops of different flavoured ice cream, the falooda is then served to the customer.
What Is Falooda?
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This is a safe space. If you too have doubts about ever having tried this street dessert in India, don’t worry this is a judgement-free zone. Though if you do make this confession online, be ready to be trolled to no end.
Although now a famous Indian street food, the origins of Falooda can be traced back to Mughlai food. If you have to compare it to a foreign dish, then I would say that the Philippines’ Halo Halo comes closest to it. The roots of the dish go back to the Persian dish Faloodeh.
Typically, falooda is served as a cold and refreshing dessert filled to the brim with ice cream or Kulfi and vermicelli making it a textural experience. Modern modifications to the dish have been the inclusion of chia seeds and boba to the street delicacy.
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